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AWS EKS now supports Kubernetes version rollbacks
By Evgeny Anikiev | July 5, 2026
Kubernetes upgrades are no longer a one-way door For years, upgrading a Kubernetes control plane has been irreversible. Once you move from one version to the next, there is no …
Kubernetes 1.35 locks down rogue exec plugins
By Evgeny Anikiev | January 19, 2026
Kubernetes 1.35: Taking Control of Credential Plugin Execution 🔐 Here's a scenario that probably keeps your security team awake: your kubeconfig can run arbitrary shell scripts with your full user …
Kubernetes v1.35: Safer CSI Service Account Tokens
By Evgeny Anikiev | January 9, 2026
Kubernetes v1.35 just solved a problem that's been nagging CSI driver maintainers for years.Service account tokens have been passed through volume_context. It worked. But it's the wrong place for secrets. …
Kubernetes 1.35: Gang Scheduling is here
By Evgeny Anikiev | December 30, 2025
Kubernetes 1.35 just shipped something the community's been asking for: workload aware scheduling. Here's the thing. Scheduling a single Pod? Easy. Scheduling an entire ML training job where all workers …
etcd v3.6 upgrade: Stop zombie cluster members
By Evgeny Anikiev | December 27, 2025
etcd v3.6 is coming, but there's a gotcha. The issue: when upgrading from v3.5 to v3.6, some clusters hit a nasty bug. Old, removed cluster members start re-appearing as "zombies" …
Helm 4 is here: 6 years of innovation in One release
By Evgeny Anikiev | November 12, 2025
After six years since Helm 3, the Kubernetes ecosystem just got a major upgrade. Helm 4 is now available, and it's addressing real-world challenges that platform engineers face today. Here's …
Kubernetes v1.33 cuts API memory usage by 95%
By Evgeny Anikiev | October 29, 2025
Kubernetes v1.33 just solved one of the biggest headaches in large-scale cluster operations: memory bloat from List requests. Here's what happened. Your kube-apiserver was holding entire API responses in memory …
Kubernetes v1.33: In-Place Pod Resize Hits Beta
By Evgeny Anikiev | October 28, 2025
Kubernetes v1.33 just made vertical scaling way less painful. The in-place Pod resize feature-first introduced as alpha back in v1.27-has graduated to Beta and is now enabled by default. This …
Linux Swap Tuning for Kubernetes: Real-World Results
By Evgeny Anikiev | October 23, 2025
Swap is coming to Kubernetes - but it's not plug-and-play. The upcoming Kubernetes v1.34 will graduate NodeSwap to stable, allowing Linux nodes to spill memory to disk when RAM runs …