Drew Hagen, the release lead for Kubernetes 1.35, discusses the theme of the release, Timbernetes, which symbolizes resilience and diversity in the Kubernetes community. He shares insights from his experience as a release lead, highlights key features and enhancements in the new version, and addresses the importance of coordination in release management. Drew also touches on the deprecations in the release and the future of Kubernetes, including its applications in edge computing.

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• Kubernetes v1.35: Timbernetes (The World Tree Release)

Janet Kuo, Staff Software Engineer at Google, explains the new Kubernetes AI Conformance program.

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• KubeCon North America 2025

• Kubernetes AI Conformance program

• Kubernetes 1.35 release Sneak Peek

• Helm4

• Google Cloud Achieves Massive Kubernetes Scale with 130,000-Node GKE Cluster

• Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) AI Conformance

• AKS Ingress Nginx Update

• AKS Automatic managed system node pools

• Amazon EKS Introduces New Managed Kubernetes Capabilities for Workload Orchestration

• KubeCon NA 2025 Retrospective: Closed- And Open-Source Battle For The AI-Native Cloud

• CNCF Launches Certified Kubernetes AI Conformance Program

• Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) Established to Standardize Agent Collaboration

• KServe Joins CNCF as a Sandbox Project

• OpenFGA accepted as CNCF Incubating Project

• Lima accepted as CNCF Incubation Project

• Lima v2.0 Released with Secure AI Workflows

• KubeCon Cloud Native Con Europe 2026

• Kubernetes Software Conformance program

• kubectl

• Dynamic Resource Allocation (DRA) API

• Kubernetes WG AI Conformance

• Kubernetes SIG Architecture

• Kubernetes SIG Testing

GKE turned 10 in 2025! In this episode, we talk with GKE PM Gari Singh about GKE's journey from early container orchestration to AI-driven ops. Discover Autopilot, IPPR, and a bold vision for the future of Kubernetes.

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News of the week

• Cloud Native Computing Foundation Announces Knative's Graduation

• llm-d 0.3: Wider Well-Lit Paths for Scalable Inference

• vllm-project/semantic-router on github

• Announcing the Certified Meshery Contributor (CMC)

• Introducing Headlamp Plugin for Karpenter - Scaling and Visibility

Links from the interview

• Kelsey Hightower's Kubernetes the Hard Way

• MiniKube

• Kind

• Docker Compose

• Docker Swarm

• GKE Autopilot

• Dynamic Resource Allocation (DRA)

• Google Cloud TPUs

• Node Auto Provisioning (GKE)

• Jax (Machine Learning Framework)

• Horizontal Pod Autoscaling (HPA)

• Serverless on Google Cloud

• Grafana

• Prometheus

• Kubectl-ai

• Vertical Pod Autoscaler (VPA)

• Kubernetes v1.33: In-Place Pod Resize Graduated to Beta

• In-place Vertical Scaling of Pods - Resize CPU and Memory Resources assigned to Containers

• GKE under the hood: Container-optimized compute delivers fast autoscaling for Autopilot