Posts in 2026

  • Open source maintainership in the age of AI

    By Kevin Hannon (Red Hat) | Friday, June 26, 2026 in Blog

    AI has really changed the game around software development. More people are leveraging AI than ever to contribute patches to projects they use. To me, this is a good thing as more folks will contribute patches rather than fork or not fix them. The …

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  • Introducing the Cluster API plugin for Headlamp

    By Chayan Das (independent) | Thursday, June 25, 2026 in Blog

    Headlamp is an open-source, extensible Kubernetes SIG UI project designed to let you explore, manage, and debug cluster resources directly from a browser. Cluster API (CAPI) is a Kubernetes sub-project that brings declarative, Kubernetes-style APIs …

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  • Inspect Volcano workloads faster with Headlamp

    By Mahmoud Magdy (independent) | Thursday, June 25, 2026 in Blog

    Volcano is a cloud native batch scheduler for Kubernetes, built for high-performance computing, AI/ML, and other batch workloads. Headlamp is an extensible Kubernetes web UI. With its plugin system, Headlamp can surface APIs and workflows beyond the …

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  • See your serverless: introducing the Headlamp plugin for Knative

    By Mudit Maheshwari (independent), Kahiro Okina (Craftsman Software, Inc.) | Thursday, June 25, 2026 in Blog

    Headlamp is an open-source, extensible Kubernetes SIG UI project designed to let you explore, manage, and debug cluster resources. Knative brings serverless workloads to Kubernetes, handling traffic routing, autoscaling, and revision management so …

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  • Spotlight on WG Device Management

    By Natalie Fisher | Wednesday, June 24, 2026 in Blog

    The rising popularity of AI, Edge, and Telecommunications workloads on Kubernetes has led to new requirements for hardware management. We now need hardware specification beyond CPU time and memory allocations. This includes allocating GPUs, TPUs, …

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  • Spotlight on SIG Storage

    By Darshan Murthy (Apple) | Monday, June 15, 2026 in Blog

    In our ongoing SIG Spotlight series, we shine a light on the groups that keep the Kubernetes project moving forward. This time, we catch up with SIG Storage, the group responsible for persistent data, volume management, and the interfaces that …

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  • From Kubernetes Dashboard to Headlamp: Understanding the Transition

    By Will Case (Headlamp) | Monday, June 01, 2026 in Blog

    For many people, Kubernetes Dashboard was their first window into Kubernetes. It offered a simple visual way to see what was running in a cluster, inspect resources, and build confidence without relying on the command line. For years, it helped …

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  • Reconciling the Past: Correcting Records for Unfixed Kubernetes CVEs

    By Pushkar Joglekar (Broadcom / SIG Security), Tabitha Sable (Datadog / K8s Security Response Committee / SIG Security) | Tuesday, May 26, 2026 in Blog

    The Kubernetes project relies on transparency to empower cluster administrators and security researchers. One important way we do that is by publishing CVE records into the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures database. As part of our ongoing effort …

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  • Announcing etcd 3.7.0-beta.0

    By SIG-etcd Leads | Wednesday, May 20, 2026 in Blog

    SIG-Etcd announces the availability of the first beta release of etcd v3.7.0. This new version of the popular distributed database and key Kubernetes component includes the long-requested RangeStream feature, as well as a refactoring and cleanup of …

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  • Kubernetes v1.36: New Metric for Route Sync in the Cloud Controller Manager

    By Lukas Metzner (Hetzner) | Friday, May 15, 2026 in Blog

    This article was originally published with the wrong date. It was later republished, dated the 15th of May 2026. Kubernetes v1.36 introduces a new alpha counter metric route_controller_route_sync_total to the Cloud Controller Manager (CCM) route …

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