Kubernetes 1.31: Revised scalability, extended security functions
With version 1.31, the Kubernetes community is focusing on more flexibility and security. The project celebrates its 10th anniversary.
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The Kubernetes community has announced the release of Kubernetes version 1.31. The update brings a number of revisions and new features designed to increase the efficiency, security and usability of the platform.
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The theme of the release is "Elli", a happy looking dog to symbolize the dedicated and diverse community of Kubernetes contributors. This version marks the tenth anniversary of the project.
AppArmor for more container protection
With Kubernetes 1.31, AppArmor support is now generally available. AppArmor makes it possible to protect containers by setting the appArmorProfile.type field in the securityContext of the container. Prior to version 1.30, AppArmor was apparently controlled via annotations; from version 1.30 onwards, control was via fields. Further information can be found in the AppArmor tutorial.
The release also introduces a number of new features and enhancements designed to increase the flexibility and functionality of the platform. The community has revised the support of the entities StatefulSet and DaemonSet to enable more efficient workload management.
Scalability and performance
Kubernetes 1.31 includes revisions designed to improve the scalability of clusters. In addition to performance adjustments for the API servers, the update offers new mechanisms for managing large clusters and workloads. These changes are aimed at increasing the efficiency and reliability of Kubernetes in large-scale production environments.
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User-friendliness and documentation
To make Kubernetes even easier to use, the user interface and documentation have been revised. New tools and plug-ins support the management and monitoring of clusters, which has a positive impact on user-friendliness, according to the blog post.
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n November 2024, iX and dpunkt.verlag will host the CLC conference - Continuous Lifecycle/ContainerConf - at the Congress Center Rosengarten in Mannheim. Every year since 2014, the event has addressed the most important issues relating to Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Delivery (CD), Dev(Sec)Ops and GitOps in order to provide answers, know-how and support for everyday project work. From November 12 to 14, this year's CLC will focus on AI-supported DevOps, security and FinOps as well as sustainability.
Highlights from the program
- The AI-supported developer
- Sustainability in the cloud
- Boosting AI Innovation: How AI platforms help to bring your use cases to the street
- OpenTelemetry: What does my distributed system actually do?
- Thinking of a pipeline as a product: modularization, versioning, testing, ...
- The skeleton in the closet: security risks of CI/CD systems
- Workload Identity: The future of secure authentication
Interested parties can register until September 23 at the early bird price of 1049 euros, workshops cost 649 euros (all prices plus VAT).
These and several other new features are part of the update, which aims to set new standards in terms of scalability, security and user-friendliness. More information on Kubernetes 1.31 can be found in the blog post.
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