Kubernetes - 3

2025 (6)

September (5)

k8s: Kubernetes v1.34: Pods Report DRA Resource Health

Kubernetes Official Blog

2025-09-17

Kubernetes v1.34 introduces an alpha feature (ResourceHealthStatus) that lets Dynamic Resource Allocation (DRA) drivers report device health into a Pod's status via a new dra-health/v1alpha1 gRPC service, enabling the Kubelet to surface per-device health in v1.ContainerStatus. This improves debuggability for hardware-backed workloads by showing device health (Healthy/Unhealthy/Unknown) in allocatedResourcesStatus and requires enabling the feature gate and compatible DRA drivers.

k8s: Kubernetes v1.34: Moving Volume Group Snapshots to v1beta2

Kubernetes Official Blog

2025-09-16

Kubernetes v1.34 advances Volume Group Snapshots to v1beta2. The update adds a VolumeSnapshotInfo type and replaces VolumeSnapshotHandlePairList with VolumeSnapshotInfoList to fix restoreSize handling when CSI drivers do not implement ListSnapshots; objects are migrated from v1beta1 via a conversion webhook and the feature remains CSI-only with GA planned later.

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: AKS Automatic

Azure Updates

2025-09-16

Azure announced general availability of 'AKS Automatic', a managed AKS capability that automates routine cluster operations (provisioning, scaling, upgrades, patching and security) to reduce operational complexity and let teams focus on delivering applications.

k8s: Kubernetes v1.34: Decoupled Taint Manager Is Now Stable

Kubernetes Official Blog

2025-09-15

Kubernetes v1.34 promotes the SeparateTaintEvictionController feature to GA, splitting responsibilities so the node lifecycle controller only applies NoExecute taints while a dedicated taint eviction controller handles pod eviction. This improves code separation, enables easier improvements or custom eviction implementations, and can be disabled via a kube-controller-manager flag. Documentation and a KEP/beta announcement provide more details.

aks: Release 2025-08-29

Release notes from AKS

2025-09-05

AKS v20250829 announces AKS Automatic general availability and multiple platform, networking, security, and component updates including new AKS patch versions, region expansions for API Server VNet Integration, Kubernetes 1.30 EOL, and several behavioral/observability changes.

August (1)

azure: [In preview] Public Preview: Azure Bastion now supports connectivity to private AKS clusters via tunneling

Azure Updates

2025-08-20

Azure Bastion now supports secure tunneling to private Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) clusters, allowing direct access to the AKS API server from local machines using standard Kubernetes tools.