Cloud Native Weekly: Kubernetes v1.33 is Coming
Open Source project recommendations
Tekton
Tekton is an open-source, Kubernetes-native CI/CD system that provides a powerful and flexible framework for building, testing, and deploying automated workflows. Tekton offers a standardized API and custom resources (CRDs), enabling developers to define and manage CI/CD pipelines within Kubernetes clusters.
Tekton is particularly suitable for continuous integration and continuous deployment in cloud-native applications and microservice architectures, as it can be seamlessly integrated with Kubernetes environments and supports highly scalable task and workflow management.
k8s-mcp-server
k8s-mcp-server is a server based on the Model Context Protocol (MCP), designed to provide secure execution of Kubernetes commands for AI assistants like Claude. It acts as a bridge between language models and Kubernetes command-line tools (such as kubectl, helm, istioctl, and argocd), allowing AI systems to assist in cluster management, troubleshooting, and application deployment.
Cyclops
Cyclops is an open-source development tool aimed at simplifying Kubernetes operations with an easy-to-use user interface, making it more user-friendly and accessible. Users can easily configure and deploy applications through Cyclops’ intuitive interface without manually writing YAML files for Kubernetes manifests, and the built-in validation ensures configuration correctness.
AingDesk
AingDesk is a simple and user-friendly AI assistant that supports knowledge base, model APIs, sharing, online search, and agent functionality. It allows users to deploy AI models like DeepSeek with just one click, providing a user-friendly interface and simple operation. AingDesk also supports multi-data source knowledge management, built-in chat interface, online sharing, and web search capabilities.
Technical recommendations
Kubernetes v1.33 is Coming
With the release of Kubernetes v1.33 approaching, the Kubernetes project continues to evolve. In order to improve the overall health of the project, some features may be deprecated, removed, or replaced. This blog post outlines some of the planned changes for v1.33.
The release introduces key updates and changes, including enhanced security mechanisms, improvements to networking features, and strengthened support for Gateway API and node management. The release also continues to push forward with sidecar container support and adjusts or deprecates some older features to enhance system maintainability and consistency. Furthermore, this release emphasizes improvements to the developer experience and further performance enhancements.
A Decade of Cloud Native: From CNCF, to the Pandemic, to AI
This article reviews the decade-long development of cloud-native technology, from the establishment of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) in 2015 that propelled core projects like Kubernetes, to the accelerated adoption of containerization and microservices architectures by enterprises during the pandemic to enable digital transformation, and finally to the deep integration of cloud-native technology with artificial intelligence in the AI era. It now serves as the foundational infrastructure supporting innovations such as generative AI and large-scale model training. The article emphasizes that cloud-native technology, with its characteristics like elastic scaling and automated operations, has not only revolutionized software development paradigms but also plays a critical infrastructure role in the AI-driven intelligent era. It continues to drive intelligent transformations across industries such as finance, healthcare, and manufacturing.
What’s new in cloud native
NATS Server 2.11 Release
The NATS Server 2.11 release introduces several key features, including Time-To-Live (TTL) management for individual messages to handle message expiration, consumer pinning and overflow capabilities to improve message delivery management, and a consumer pause feature to temporarily stop message consumption. Additionally, it includes distributed message tracing for easier tracking in distributed systems and a multi-message retrieval feature to enhance batch message retrieval efficiency. These updates address user needs and enhance NATS’ functionality, providing better scalability and fault tolerance.
CubeFS v3.5.0 Release Notes
CubeFS version 3.5.0 introduces several important features and optimizations. The main new features include support for managing different storage media, automatic migration of cold data via lifecycle management, querying all client versions and IP information, and support for direct I/O read operations. Enhanced features include support for switching bcache configurations for non-SSD types, directory size statistics by access time, and optimized data reading performance in scenarios with storage and computation separation.
Several bugs were also fixed, such as the conflict between Raft metadata and WAL logs, as well as issues causing client crashes when deleting files from the trash. This release improves system reliability and performance, making it suitable for CubeFS users to upgrade.
About KubeSphere
KubeSphere is an open source container platform built on top Kubernetes with applications at its core. It provides full-stack IT automated operation and streamlined DevOps workflows.
KubeSphere has been adopted by thousands of enterprises across the globe, such as Aqara, Sina, Benlai, China Taiping, Huaxia Bank, Sinopharm, WeBank, Geko Cloud, VNG Corporation and Radore. KubeSphere offers wizard interfaces and various enterprise-grade features for operation and maintenance, including Kubernetes resource management, DevOps (CI/CD), application lifecycle management, service mesh, multi-tenant management, monitoring, logging, alerting, notification, storage and network management, and GPU support. With KubeSphere, enterprises are able to quickly establish a strong and feature-rich container platform.
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