𝐊𝐮𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐬 1.29 Mid-cycle Changes

Quick walkthrough around K8s 1.29 mid-cycle Removals, Deprecations & changes

Overview

In order to deploy and manage containerized applications at scale, Kubernetes has quickly emerged as the industry standard container orchestration platform.

Kubernetes release 1.29

Let’s Dive before that changes if you are not aware of registries & packages.

Redirection from k8s.gcr.io to registry.k8s.io

• The container images used by the Kubernetes project are stored on registry.k8s.io, a community-owned image registry. From April k8s.gcr.io frozen and traffic redirected to the new image registry registry.k8s.io. Part of release 1.25.
• The out-of-date k8s.gcr.io registry will gradually go down. To learn more about this update, please check out the official doc k8s.gcr.io.

Community-owned package repositories

• The Kubernetes project made the community-owned software repository pkgs.k8s.io for Debian & RPM packages available earlier in 2023.
• Old Google‘s repositories (apt.kubernetes.io & yum.kubernetes.io) will be replaced by the community-owned repositories. On September 13, 2023, the outdated repositories were deprecated already.