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

Today we talk to Antonio Ojea. Antonio is a software engineer at Google and one of the core maintainers of Kubernetes. He is one of the Tech Lead of SIG Networking and Testing and a member of the Steering Committee.

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• GKE Autopilot Mode inside Standard clusters

• KCD H1 2026

• Metal Kubed joined the CNCF as an incubating project

• Antonio Ojea on LinkedIn

• Antonio Ojea on X

• Virtual Networks

• Kubernetes Networking

• Kubernetes Dynamic Resource Allocation (DRA)

• Kubernetes Gateway API

• Calico

• Cilium

• Multi-Service CIDR

• DRANet

Shannon Kularathna is a technical writer working on the GKE docs. He contributes regularly to the upstream Kubernetes documentation.

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• Reddit Post
• KubeCon NA
• KubeCon NA Colo events
• Jeager v2
• Kubernetes 1.34 on GKE

• Shannon Kularathna
• Kubernetes SIG Docs
• Kubernetes Documentation
• Working in Public by Nadia Eghbal
• Kubernetes Code of Conduct
• SIG Contributor Experience
• Kubernetes Blog
• Join the Kubernetes Slack
• Kubernetes New Contributor Orientation Events
• SIG Docs Meetings
• Kubernetes/website GitHub Repository
• Good First Issues for kubernetes/website
• Help Wanted Issues for kubernetes/website

Vyom Yadav is a software engineer in the security team at Canonical and a member of the Kubernetes Security Response Committee. We talked about the new Release theme and what major updates, deprecations and removals to expect in this version.

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• GKE 10 years Hackathon

• Golden Kubestronauts 100 members

• Open Policy Agent (OPA) joined Apple

• DocumentDB joined the Linux Foundation

• Solo.io donated the agentgateway to the Linux Foundation

• Kubecrash.io: A platform Eng conference with a purpose

• Vyom Yadav

• Kubernetes 1.34 sneak peak

Guests are Clayton Coleman and Rob Shaw. Clayton is a Core contributor to Kubernetes, the containerized cluster manager, and founding architect for OpenShift, the open source platform as a service. Clayton helped launch the shift to cloud native applications and the platforms that enable them. At Google my mission is to make Kubernetes and GKE the best place to run workloads, especially accelerated AI/ML workloads, and especially especially very large model inference at scale with the inference gateway and llm-d. Rob Shaw is an Engineering Director at Redhat and is a contributor to the vLLM project.

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• Kubernetes 1.34 is expected to release end of August

• Kubecrash.io: A platform Eng conference with a purpose

• CNCF top 30 project of 2025

• LLM-D

• KubeCon EU 25 Keynote: LLM-Aware Load Balancing in Kubernetes

• WG Serving

• vLLM

• Disaggregated Prefilling

• LWS: LeaderWorkerSet

This episode is a crossover with our friends at the SRE Prodcast. Kaslin joined Ben Good and Steve McGhee to talk about Kubernetes for Platform Engineering.

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Kubernetes 1.34 Sneak Peak

Upcoming changes to the Bitnami catalog (effective August 28th, 2025)

Amazon EKS enables ultra scale AI/ML workloads with support for 100K nodes per cluster

CNCF Cloud Native Glossary

Backstage

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