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2026 (12)

March (11)

k8s: Kubernetes v1.36 Sneak Peek

Kubernetes Official Blog

2026-03-30

Kubernetes v1.36 is planned for April 22, 2026 and includes API deprecations/removals plus several feature graduations. Notable changes are deprecating Service .spec.externalIPs, disabling the gitRepo volume driver, and promoting SELinux volume labeling and external ServiceAccount token signing to GA.

azure: [In preview] Public Preview: AI Agent for container networking troubleshooting

Azure Updates

2026-03-24

Azure has a public preview of an AI Agent for container networking troubleshooting. It provides a lightweight web-based interface to help correlate logs and metrics for Kubernetes networking incidents.

azure: [In preview] Public Preview: Cross-cluster networking in Azure Kubernetes Fleet Manager

Azure Updates

2026-03-24

Azure Kubernetes Fleet Manager is adding cross-cluster networking in public preview. The update targets networking across multiple Kubernetes clusters to improve global service discovery, performance, and observability in distributed microservice environments.

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: Azure Container Storage v2.1.0 now with Elastic SAN integration and on demand installation

Azure Updates

2026-03-24

Azure Container Storage v2.1.0 is generally available and adds Elastic SAN integration. It lets Kubernetes clusters use storage from a shared pool and supports on-demand installation.

azure: [In preview] Public Preview: Microsoft Azure Kubernetes Application Network

Azure Updates

2026-03-24

Microsoft Azure Kubernetes Application Network is in public preview. It targets Kubernetes environments spread across regions and clusters by adding application-layer networking controls and visibility beyond IP-based networking.

k8s: Announcing Ingress2Gateway 1.0: Your Path to Gateway API

Kubernetes Official Blog

2026-03-20

Ingress2Gateway 1.0 is a stable migration assistant for moving from Ingress to Gateway API, with expanded Ingress-NGINX annotation support and more detailed warnings for unsupported or lossy translations. The release emphasizes controller-level integration tests and safer migration workflows, including manual review, validation in a dev cluster, and gradual traffic shifting.

k8s: Running Agents on Kubernetes with Agent Sandbox

Kubernetes Official Blog

2026-03-20

Kubernetes SIG Apps is developing Agent Sandbox, a new API for singleton, stateful AI agent workloads that need persistent identity, isolation, and suspend/resume behavior. The project adds a Sandbox CRD plus extensions like warm pools to reduce cold starts and support untrusted code execution.

k8s: Securing Production Debugging in Kubernetes

Kubernetes Official Blog

2026-03-18

The post recommends securing production Kubernetes debugging with least-privilege RBAC, short-lived identity-bound credentials, and a just-in-time access gateway instead of shared bastions, cluster-admin access, or long-lived SSH keys. It outlines practical patterns for namespace-scoped roles, group-based bindings, OIDC or client-certificate auth, and gateway-mediated sessions with audit logging and automatic expiration.

aks: Release Notes - 2026-03-05

Release notes from AKS

2026-03-18

AKS released new Kubernetes patch versions, updated several components and node images, and introduced/expanded features including OTLP gRPC support for Azure Monitor Profile, GA auto-instrumentation, and broader Azure Linux GPU and KAITO support. It also announced deprecations and behavior changes, including retirement dates for Flatcar preview support and deprecation of Kubernetes LTS 1.28.

k8s: The Invisible Rewrite: Modernizing the Kubernetes Image Promoter

Kubernetes Official Blog

2026-03-17

Kubernetes rewrote the core of its image promoter (kpromo/promo-tools), removing legacy code and splitting promotion into distinct phases. The new pipeline improved performance and reliability, shipped in v4.2.0–v4.4.0, and kept user-facing flags and manifests unchanged.

k8s: Announcing the AI Gateway Working Group

Kubernetes Official Blog

2026-03-09

Kubernetes has formed a new AI Gateway Working Group to define standards and best practices for Gateway API-based networking infrastructure tailored to AI workloads.

February (1)

azure: Retirement: Managed NGINX Ingress with Application Routing Add-on Retiring November 2026

Azure Updates

2026-02-27

Microsoft will retire the Managed NGINX Ingress used by the AKS Application Routing add-on in November 2026 due to the upstream Ingress-NGINX project deprecating and ending updates after March 2026. Microsoft will provide only critical security patches until 30 Nov 2026, after which the controller is unsupported.