𝐊𝐮𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐬 1.29 Some Exciting Features

A brief overview of the removals, deprecations, and modifications made to K8s 1.29

Overview

Kubernetes has become the de facto industry standard container orchestration technology for deploying and managing containerized applications at scale.

Kubernetes release 1.29

Kubernetes 1.29 Theme & logo — Mandala (The Universe)

This release draws inspiration from the exquisite Mandala art style, which represents the cosmos in its ultimate form. K8s group of about 40 Release Team members has worked hard to solve obstacles and opportunities for millions of people globally, supported by hundreds of community contributors.

Let’s Dive

Total enhancement in release 1.29 = 49

11 graduated to Stable, 19 to Beta & 19 to Alpha

Stable improvements

• ReadWriteOncePod — introduced in the 1.22 release as an Alpha feature for CSI driver now graduated to stable. Before 1.22 k8s had three volume access modes RWO, RWM, ROM

ReadWriteOncePod (RWOP)makes sure only the pod attached to the volume in the whole cluster can only read or write to that PV/PVC.

apiVersion: v1
kind: PersistentVolume
metadata:
  name: pv
spec:
  capacity:
    storage: 5Gi…