Each year, 25-30 new Open Source projects related to the Cloud Native ecosystem are accepted to the CNCF Sandbox. In January 2025, there were 13 additions, with four of them donated by Red Hat. Here's the list of these newly added CNCF projects: - Podman Container Tools (security-focused Docker alte..

Helm 4.0.0 brought several new features to its users, such as Server-Side Apply support and kstatus-based resource watching.Nelm, an alternative to Helm created in werf, a CNCF Sandbox project, has been offering these capabilities even before. Nelm has many more new features for Kubernetes deploymen..

The next Kubernetes release, v1.35, is scheduled for December 17th. It should bring 15 new Alpha features, including the following ones: - Gang scheduling support - Mutable PersistentVolume node affinity - Restart all containers on container exits - Consider terminating Pods in Deployments - CSI vol..

Helm v4 has been released a week ago. Its highlights are: - Server-Side Apply instead of 3-Way Merge - WASM plugins - Using kstatus for resource tracking - Content-based chart caching This articleprovides a detailed overview of why these changes were made in Helm v4 and what they bring for Helm user..

Recently, the latest Kubernetes version, v1.34, was released with 13 new alpha features on board. They include: - KYAML, a new dialect of YAML for Kubernetes manifests, which is still compatible with all existing tooling; - asynchronous API calls to kube-apiserver during scheduling; - various enhanc..

Significant releases included Jaeger v2 and Prometheus 3.0. Two projects (Dapr and cert-manager) became Graduated. New certifications for Backstage, OpenTelemetry, and Kyverno were announced...