Kubernetes v1.36 will be released in 2 weeks. What will change?
Here are prominent newly introduced alpha features in the v1.36 release:
- Workload-aware preemption. Groups of related Pods are now treated as a single entity.
- Topology-aware workload scheduling, allowing you to place a group of Pods together within a topological domain defined by a common label.
- Native histogram support for Kubernetes metrics, as implemented in Prometheus 3.
- Numerous DRA (Dynamic Resource Allocation) improvements.
- Pod-level resource managers.
- Graceful leader transition for Kubernetes control-plane components.
Other important changes in Kubernetes v1.36:
- OCI VolumeSource, user namespaces support, and mutating admission policies are stable.
- Device taints and tolerations support in DRA and DRA support for partitionable devices move to beta.
- The gitRepo volume plugin is removed.
Learn more about where the leading container orchestration framework is heading to from this Kubernetes 1.36 changes overview.
