Gardener Project

Fresh from the community: 🩺 node-agent now monitors systemd unit health, 🔂 etcd gets a 3.4→3.5 upgrade path, 🏜️ Ingress NGINX is being retired, 🐳 local CCM for LBs lands, plus 🔐 new encryption providers & 🕹 a Dashboard update! 🎥 Watch now: youtu.be/xUINvwIt9Kk

Packed agenda this week 🌱 Demos cover 🗑️ Vali instance removal, 🌐 NetworkPolicy controller optimizations, and GEP-28 progress — from 🖥️ self-hosted Shoot API server local access to 🎮 extension management & gardenlet controllers. 🎥 Watch now: youtu.be/drpgkEjONwQ

Packed agenda this week 🌱 Dual autoscaling for istio-ingressgateway with VPA+HPA ⚖️, zone-aware Shoot control plane placement 🌐, custom domains for the discovery server, and a brand-new Traefik extension for Shoots 🚪 🎥 Watch now: youtu.be/3-PobAcbtbw

Packed agenda this week 🌱 Serial OSC reconciliation 🔄, cleaner local DNS via bind9 🌍, provider extensions now on `gardener-operator` remote setup 🏗️, UI-friendly endpoint names 🏷️ & AZ support in `gardenadm` 🗺️ 🎥 Watch now: youtu.be/JQLnnNJHOew

Fresh from the community: our latest Kubernetes special edition review is here for v1.35! 🎓 Graduated features, 🌸 alpha→beta promotions, 🗞️ new alphas, 🧼 security & deprecations, plus 🪴 what's changing in Gardener. 🎥 Watch now: youtu.be/BV3w1l6lz-k

Fresh from the community: GEPs move to a new home 🏠, Secrets Manager gets lazy CA loading 🔑, VictoriaLogs lands as a logging backend 🪵, node-specific config files in gardener-node-agent 🖥️, and a new Go submodule for Gardener APIs 📦 🎥 Watch now: youtu.be/axIwAmhJ_Hw

Packed agenda this week: kube-apiserver access logs, experimental GPU support, manifest propagation to Shoots, new VPA update mode webhook, seamless overlay network switching, custom CA bundles for Helm repos, and improved Shoot cleanup. 🚀 🎥 Watch now: youtu.be/jScp5zha7Fc

Packed agenda this week: automatic credential rotation, remediating ServiceAccount tokens, HA VPN round-robin bonding, Workload Identity for DNS, Prometheus health checks, smarter actuators, and changed Kubernetes minor version retention. 🚀 🎥 Watch now: youtu.be/2rOOsQWLO_w

Review Meeting — Kubernetes 1.34 Special Edition 🚀 A fast walkthrough of what’s new in upstream Kubernetes: freshly graduated features, beta promotions, and brand-new alphas — straight from the KEPs. 🎥 Watch the recording: youtu.be/ksbM6eZo6Pg

Explore how Gardener is making Self-Hosted Shoot Clusters more reachable! 🌍 The new proposal discussed in the Technical Steering defines a standard way to expose the API servers of such clusters externally (e.g., via load balancers). 🚀 🎥 Watch now: youtu.be/OodgUQ-cZNA

Packed agenda this week: default DNS-secret config via Seed API, ShootMutator admission plugin, multi-operation annotations, the new Gardener upgrade guide, resource references in the Garden API, and logging-stack performance boosts. 🚀 🎥 Watch now: youtu.be/VZgnIjnoDtA

Special edition for Hack the Garden — massive agenda: Gardener in Docker, Istio access-log enrichment, backup relocation, Talos evaluation, scale-out tests, kube-proxy NFT mode, Gateway API migration, and any more. 🚀 🎥 Watch now: youtu.be/NtCsjDKJ3yA

Packed agenda this week: node-local-dns server config, disaster-recovery guide, global quotas, structured auth for app CI/CD, dual-stack→IPv4 migration, Istio TLS termination updates, and on-demand worker-pool rollouts. 🚀 🎥 Watch now: youtu.be/oehF0Uoe7lg

This week’s Review Meeting brought solid tech updates! 🚀 OpenStack moves on without Terraformer, observability improves with the OpenTelemetry Collector, early pieces of 'gardenadm connect' land, and new extension metrics add clarity. 👀 🎥 Recording: youtu.be/dVLtdifYMTY

Meet Autonomous Shoot Clusters — bringing Gardener beyond the cloud. 🚀 They extend the hosted control plane model to the edge, enabling Kubernetes in places with limited connectivity and capacity. 🎥 Watch now: youtu.be/spK2kZ08loI

Plenty of action in this week’s Review Meeting! 🌿 We saw progress on GEP-28, smarter VPA improvements, and fresh networking updates — from unified proxy support to multi-zonal L7 load-balancing fixes — and a lot more. 🎥 Catch the full recap here: youtu.be/GArG1wh2j1o

This week’s Review Meeting brought fresh updates across storage, networking, and security. 🌱 From new CSI drivers to multi-range VPNs, WorkloadIdentity for backups, and new Calico monitoring, there’s plenty of innovation brewing! 🎥 Watch the recap: youtu.be/mqSwkR8TmuE

Dive into how Gardener keeps things fair & sustainable! 🌿 This session unpacks neutral governance - who sets direction, how decisions get made, and how the community stays balanced. 🎥➡️ youtu.be/bibK-n5F6Qk

Missed this week’s Gardener Review Meeting? 🌱 Highlights include networking improvements, dashboard enhancements, machine image capabilities, new dev guidelines, and auditlog-safe shoot cluster access. Watch the full session here 🎥➡️ youtu.be/sfByvNPAnz8

This week’s Gardener Review 🌿 had plenty to explore: a shiny new OpenTelemetryCollector feature gate 🪣, easier DNS secret config through the Seed API 🔩, and clever uses of MutatingAdmissionPolicy for daily ops 🌀. Catch the recap 🎥➡️ youtu.be/aUCxInp-yaA