Weekly GitHub Report for Kubernetes: July 14, 2025 - July 21, 2025 (12:11:18)
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Table of Contents
I. News
1.1 Recent Version Releases:
The current version of this repository is v1.32.3
1.2 Version Information:
The version release information, created on March 11, 2025, highlights key updates in Kubernetes version 1.32, with detailed changes and additional binary downloads available in the linked changelog. Notable trends or highlights from this release can be found by reviewing the changelog documentation.
II. Issues
2.1 Top 5 Active Issues:
We consider active issues to be issues that that have been commented on most frequently within the last week. Bot comments are omitted.
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Auto-approved but unissued kubelet client CSRs persist indefinitely: This issue addresses the persistent accumulation of auto-approved but unissued kubelet client Certificate Signing Requests (CSRs) in Kubernetes clusters, which has led to unexpectedly high etcd storage usage. The problem arises because the CSRs are not being garbage collected as expected, due to certain cluster role bindings and a lack of logic in the CSR cleaner controller to handle this specific scenario.
- The comments discuss the assignment and handling of the issue, with one contributor expressing interest in taking on the task and another mentioning they already have a patch ready. There is a collaborative exchange where one contributor offers to defer to the original issue raiser due to organizational constraints on contributing, and they share their patch for review.
- Number of comments this week: 8
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Add optional x-kubernetes-list-type: map key support: This issue is about adding support for optional keys in Custom Resource Definitions (CRDs) in Kubernetes, allowing fields to be used as map keys even if they are optional, similar to the support being added for built-in types. The discussion highlights considerations such as handling nullable fields, ratcheting map entry correlation, and object equality in the context of CRDs.
- The comments discuss the implications of optional keys on validation and merging processes, with questions about whether changes are needed in validation-gen and how optional fields affect item matching in list maps. There is a clarification that optional fields can be absent from keysets, and a discussion on whether non-pointer fields would default to zero values or need a mechanism to indicate if they are unset.
- Number of comments this week: 7
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[KEP-4680] DRA: Health status is not applied to pods that have already terminated: This issue addresses a problem with the Device Resource Allocation (DRA) health status feature introduced by KEP-4680, where the health status is not applied to pods that have already terminated, due to a race condition in the Kubelet's implementation. The issue prevents the intended "post-mortem" troubleshooting for batch jobs, as the health updates from the DRA plugin are discarded when they arrive after the pod has stopped running, leaving the
pod.status.allocatedResourcesStatusfield unpopulated.- The comments discuss the importance of the issue, with suggestions to not block the alpha release of KEP-4680 but to address the problem in a follow-up. The issue is assigned to a contributor, and it is marked with relevant tags for tracking and prioritization.
- Number of comments this week: 6
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Default ServiceCIDR controller should repair incorrect default ServiceCIDR: This issue addresses the problem of the Default ServiceCIDR controller not repairing incorrect default ServiceCIDR configurations when they are manually modified to be dual-stack, which can lead to inconsistencies in how the cluster's service stack is perceived by different components. The proposed solution involves having each apiserver write its own state to a private object and ensuring all active apiservers agree on the expected value before making repairs, to prevent conflicts during dual-stack rollouts.
- The comments include tagging relevant Kubernetes Special Interest Groups (SIGs) such as network and api-machinery, accepting the issue for triage, and a user expressing interest in working on the issue if it is not targeted for the upcoming release.
- Number of comments this week: 5
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Deprecated AppArmor annotation field not yet removed: This issue addresses the continued presence of a deprecated AppArmor annotation field in Kubernetes, which should have been removed by version 1.33 according to the deprecation policy. The user reports that the annotation is still being checked by the Pod Security Standards (PSS) baseline, causing confusion and potential security concerns, and suggests updating the documentation to reflect the current state and removing the deprecated field.
- The comments discuss the need to update documentation to remove the deprecated AppArmor annotation from allowed fields, while some suggest maintaining validation as the annotation still has an effect. There is a reference to related discussions and a pull request, with a suggestion to stop mirroring the field to the annotation to encourage reading the new field instead.
- Number of comments this week: 4
2.2 Top 5 Stale Issues:
We consider stale issues to be issues that has had no activity within the last 30 days. The team should work together to get these issues resolved and closed as soon as possible.
- apimachinery resource.Quantity primitive values should be public for recursive hashing: This issue addresses the need for the primitive values within the
apimachinery resource.Quantitystruct to be made public to facilitate recursive hashing, which is currently hindered by their private status. The lack of public access to these values complicates the process of detecting changes in Custom Resource Definitions (CRDs) for projects likekubernetes-sigs/karpenter, which rely on hash comparisons to identify specification drifts, impacting resource allocation and necessitating inefficient workarounds. - APF borrowing by exempt does not match KEP: This issue highlights a discrepancy between the Kubernetes Enhancement Proposal (KEP) and its implementation regarding how the exempt priority level borrows from other levels in the Kubernetes API Priority and Fairness (APF) system. Specifically, the KEP outlines a distinct formula for calculating the minimum concurrency limit for exempt levels, which is not reflected in the current implementation, leading to potential inconsistencies in resource allocation.
- Zone-aware down scaling behavior: This issue addresses a problem with zone-aware downscaling behavior in Kubernetes, where during scale-in operations, there is an unexpected imbalance in pod distribution across zones despite using a topology spread constraint with
maxSkew: 1. The user reports that during nighttime scale-ins, the workload sometimes ends up with only one pod in a zone while the others are distributed across two zones, leading to high CPU usage for the lone pod and a deviation from the expected even distribution of pods. - apimachinery's unstructured converter panics if the destination struct contains private fields: This issue describes a problem with the
DefaultUnstructuredConverterin the Kubernetesapimachinerypackage, where it panics when attempting to convert an unstructured object to a structured object if the destination struct contains private fields. The panic occurs because the converter tries to set values on non-exported fields, which is not allowed in Go, and the user expects the converter to ignore these private fields instead of causing a panic. - Jsonpath impl does not support left match regex: This issue highlights the lack of support for the
=~operator in jsonpath filter expressions within a GitHub project, which is necessary for matching items using Golang regular expressions. The addition of this feature would simplify the process of locating desired resources in systems with numerous resources, and the issue's author has expressed willingness to contribute to its implementation.
2.3 Open Issues
This section lists, groups, and then summarizes issues that were created within the last week in the repository.
Issues Opened This Week: 37
Summarized Issues:
- Kubernetes Pod Stuck in ContainerCreating State: This issue arises when a Kubernetes Pod attempts to mount multiple Container Storage Interface (CSI) volumes with identical attributes, causing a conflict in the volume identification mechanism. As a result, the volumes are not recognized and mounted as distinct entities, leaving the Pod stuck in the
ContainerCreatingstate.
- Kubernetes Cgroup v1 Phase-Out: The proposal to change the default setting of the
fail-cgroupv1flag totruein Kubernetes is part of a broader effort to phase out cgroup v1 support. This change requires users to explicitly opt-in to using cgroup v1, ensuring that CI jobs primarily use cgroup v2, and suggests updating the Kubernetes Enhancement Proposal (KEP) to reflect this transition.
- Kubernetes Client-Go Informer/Reflector Issue: The Kubernetes client-go library faces a problem where the Informer/Reflector components do not support handling resources in the Table format. This leads to decoding failures and incorrect storage of items due to missing metadata fields, with a proposed solution to return an explicit error when encountering unsupported types.
- Kubernetes PreStop Hook Flake: A flake in the Kubernetes project occurs when the PreStop hook for a restartable init container terminates immediately instead of lasting approximately 32 seconds. This causes failures in various continuous integration tests related to different container runtimes and configurations.
- Kubernetes Workqueue Retries Metric Increase: A persistent increase in the
workqueue_retries_totalmetric for theopen_api_v3_aggregation_controllerworkqueue is observed in Kubernetes clusters running versionsv1.30.2andv1.33.1. Despite inspecting related metrics and logs, the cause remains unidentified, potentially linked to specific CRDs or a bug in metric evaluation.
- Kubernetes Kubectl Set Selector Documentation Issue: An example in the help documentation for the
kubectl set selectorcommand fails to create a deployment due to missing required flags. A pull request has been submitted to address this by suggesting the use ofkubectl runinstead.
- Kubernetes Kubelet Client CSR Accumulation: The persistent accumulation of auto-approved but unissued kubelet client Certificate Signing Requests (CSRs) in Kubernetes clusters leads to excessive etcd storage usage. This necessitates manual intervention to remove outdated CSRs and adjust cluster role bindings.
- Kubernetes Deprecated AppArmor Annotation: The continued enforcement of a deprecated AppArmor annotation field in Kubernetes v1.33 causes confusion and potential false security. The PodSecurity Standards (PSS) baseline still restricts its use, calling for updating documentation and removing the annotation to align with current security context specifications.
- Kubernetes Failing Test Issues: Several tests in the Kubernetes project are failing due to various reasons, including network connection errors and context deadline exceeded errors. These issues are observed in multiple recent test runs, indicating potential problems with test execution timing or resource availability.
- Kubernetes Named Ports E2E Test: An end-to-end (e2e) test for Kubernetes Services is proposed to verify the functionality of named ports in Pods. This test ensures that a Service can correctly target Pods using named
targetPortattributes, even when Pods are updated with different port numbers, and aims to promote this test to a conformance test.
- Kubernetes Localhost NodePorts Challenges: Enabling localhost NodePorts in Kubernetes faces challenges due to limitations of ipvs, iptables, and nftables with IPv6. A fallback to userspace proxying is proposed for specific cases like localhost NodePorts and Services with named ports, while weighing the pros and cons of this approach.
- Kubernetes Kube-Apiserver DoS Vulnerability: A vulnerability in the Kubernetes kube-apiserver allows an authenticated, malicious user to cause a denial of service (DoS) by creating a large number of pods. This leads to excessive memory usage and renders the control plane node unresponsive, impacting the entire cluster's accessibility and functionality.
- Kubernetes EventTime Field Evaluation: The feasibility of optionally populating the
EventTimefield in the event recorder for core/v1 events in the Kubernetes client-go library is being evaluated. This ensures compatibility and prevents regression, asEventTimeoffers greater time precision useful for performance analysis.
- Kubernetes Kubelet User Namespace Support Error: A failure in starting the Kubelet occurs when following the Kubernetes documentation for configuring user namespace support, due to an "id 62698912 is out of range" error. This prevents container scheduling and suggests a potential documentation error or missing guidance on handling this specific error.
- Kubernetes DEK Seed Cache Proposal: A proposal to replace the current expiring cache for Data Encryption Key (DEK) seeds in Kubernetes with a non-expiring Least Recently Used (LRU) cache aims to enhance cluster resilience against KMS service failures. The existing cache's cardinality is low and stable, suggesting the removal of obsolete
useSeedchecks from the KMSv2 provider.
- Kubernetes E2E Testing Efficiency: Enhancing the Kubernetes end-to-end (e2e) testing process by implementing a
DeletePodsWithWaitfunction aims to clean up multiple pods in parallel. This improves efficiency in the testing framework compared to the current serial deletion method.
- Kubernetes PodResourceInfo Fetch Method: Improving the Kubernetes codebase involves adding a method to fetch individual PodResourceInfo from the allocated resource state. This is part of a cleanup effort under the node SIG, instead of retrieving and deep copying the entire pod info map.
- Kubernetes DRA Health Status Race Condition: A race condition in the Kubernetes Kubelet's implementation of the Device Resource Assignment (DRA) health status feature prevents accurate post-mortem troubleshooting for batch jobs. Health updates for devices used by terminated pods are not applied, suggesting modifications to the DRA manager's state handling to retain terminated ClaimInfo entries temporarily.
- Kubernetes MutatingAdmissionPolicy Update: Tracking the update of the stored version from alpha to beta for the MutatingAdmissionPolicy in the Kubernetes project is underway, specifically for version 1.35.
- Kubernetes StatefulSet Zookeeper Test Failure: A failure in the Kubernetes StatefulSet Zookeeper test is due to an image pull error caused by the deprecation and unavailability of the
java:openjdk-8-jreimage. This results in thebootstrapcontainer being unable to start, causing the test to fail.
- Kubernetes Metrics Timestamp Exposure: Exposing a timestamp for metrics based on cached values in the Kubernetes API server is needed to indicate when the metric was last calculated. This ensures that stale data does not disrupt metric freshness and aggregation, potentially using Prometheus's
NewMetricWithTimestampfunctionality.
- Kubernetes Optional Fields in CRDs: Adding support for optional fields to be used as map keys in Kubernetes Custom Resource Definitions (CRDs) involves handling nullable fields, ratcheting map entry correlation, and ensuring correct object equality. Kubernetes is moving towards allowing optional keys for built-in types.
- Kubernetes Kubelet TLS Certificate Reload Issue: The kubelet does not automatically reload a custom TLS certificate after it has been replaced on disk, leading to errors due to the use of an expired certificate. A manual restart of the kubelet service is required to temporarily resolve the issue.
- Kubernetes CEL List Extension Integration: The integration of the CEL list extension library from the latest release into the project is requested, highlighting its potential utility for DRA use cases.
- Kubernetes GKE Log Fetching Failure: The log fetching functionality in a Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) cluster fails after an upgrade to version 1.32.4-gke.1698000 due to an "Unprocessable Entity" error. This is caused by the
PodLogOptionsbeing invalid, specifically because thestreamfield is now forbidden, which was not documented in the GKE release notes.
- Kubernetes Kube-Proxy SNAT Issue: Kube-proxy using iptables is incorrectly SNATing traffic to pods on other nodes via a service with the interface's address instead of the node's InternalIP. This causes issues with traffic control based on source address, particularly affecting cilium NetworkPolicy's
hostandremote-nodeentities that rely on InternalIP addresses to identify node traffic.
- Kubernetes Default ServiceCIDR Controller Repair: The Default ServiceCIDR controller needs to repair incorrect modifications to the default ServiceCIDR, particularly when an admin changes it to dual-stack. This can lead to inconsistencies between the apiserver's perception of the cluster's service stack and the rest of the system, suggesting a solution involving each apiserver writing its state to a private object to ensure consistency across all active apiservers.
- Kubernetes CEL Extension Library Cost Definition: Relocating the cost definition for the CEL extension library to within the library itself is proposed to enhance maintainability and prevent the library author from overlooking the addition of cost.
- Kubernetes RBAC Rules for HTTPRoute: Adding explicit RBAC rules to the built-in
ClusterRole/adminin Kubernetes is proposed to grant access toHTTPRouteresources within thegateway.networking.k8s.ioAPI group. This aligns theadminrole with the evolving Gateway API standard as a successor to the deprecated Ingress API, facilitating modern networking tasks and reducing administrative overhead for cluster operators.
- Kubernetes Pod Scheduling Optimization: Optimizing the pod scheduling time in a Kubernetes cluster during a node power outage aims to reduce the switching time from the current 10 seconds to approximately 5 seconds. Guidance is sought on modifying settings to achieve this improvement.
- Kubernetes Load Balancer Node Readiness Issue: Nodes in a
NotReadystate, potentially due to aNodeNetworkUnavailablecondition, are incorrectly added to load balancer services in a Kubernetes environment using the OpenStack Cloud Controller Manager. This leads to non-operational LoadBalancer services, suggesting a solution to modify the predicates used in the service controller code to prevent this.
- Kubernetes E2E Test Dependency Replacement: Replacing third-party, database-like dependencies currently used in end-to-end test cases, such as MySQL, Redis, and Zookeeper, with etcd is proposed to ensure that cluster upgrades do not disrupt workloads. The Zookeeper test is not runnable on the latest master branch.
- Kubernetes Warning Mechanism Enhancement: Enhancing the warning mechanism in the Kubernetes project by either converting it into an error or improving its logging behavior during tests is proposed. The current warning emitted by
SetFeatureGateEmulationVersionDuringTestis confusing and diminishes its value for developers, especially in integration tests where it clutters the global output.
2.4 Closed Issues
This section lists, groups, and then summarizes issues that were closed within the last week in the repository. This section also links the associated pull requests if applicable.
Issues Closed This Week: 6
Summarized Issues:
- Persistent Test Failures in capz-windows-master Job: This issue involves a persistent failure in the
ci-kubernetes-e2e-capz-master-windows.Overalltest, affecting thecapz-windows-masterjob in the master-blocking suite since July 12th. The problem was due to difficulties in retrieving logs from Windows nodes in a Kubernetes cluster, which was eventually resolved by a specific pull request.
- EventTime Field in Kubernetes Events: The need to allow the use of the
EventTimefield in the coreEventtype within Kubernetes is highlighted to achieve better timestamp precision. Challenges include the API server's validation requirements whenEventTimeis non-null, with suggestions for potential solutions for compatibility with existing systems.
- Breaking of Unit Tests Due to cel-go Update: An update to cel-go v0.26.0 caused incorrect cost calculations in several Kubernetes unit test cases. This issue was ultimately resolved by a fix and version bump as detailed in the linked pull requests.
- Clock Synchronization Issues in Isolated Clusters: In Kubernetes, clock synchronization in isolated clusters can cause tokens to be considered not valid yet if the system time is adjusted forward. The current implementation only checks for token expiration and rotation requirements without considering if the current time is earlier than the token's issued time.
- Removal of Kube-Proxy Version Information: The "Kube-Proxy Version" information was removed from the output of the
kubectl describe nodescommand, deprecated in Kubernetes version 1.31 and completely removed in version 1.33. The field previously displayed the kubelet version rather than the actual kube-proxy version, leading to potential inaccuracies.
- Placeholder or Test Entry: This issue, titled "Test," appears to be a placeholder or a simple test entry in the Kubernetes GitHub project. This is indicated by its minimalistic description and lack of comments.
2.5 Issue Discussion Insights
This section will analyze the tone and sentiment of discussions within this project's open and closed issues that occurred within the past week. It aims to identify potentially heated exchanges and to maintain a constructive project environment.
Based on our analysis, there are no instances of toxic discussions in the project's open or closed issues from the past week.
III. Pull Requests
3.1 Open Pull Requests
This section provides a summary of pull requests that were opened in the repository over the past week. The top three pull requests with the highest number of commits are highlighted as 'key' pull requests. Other pull requests are grouped based on similar characteristics for easier analysis. Up to 25 pull requests are displayed in this section, while any remaining pull requests beyond this limit are omitted for brevity.
Pull Requests Opened This Week: 63
Key Open Pull Requests
1. Reject pod when attachment limit is exceeded: This pull request introduces a feature in Kubernetes that allows the kubelet to detect when a CSI volume attachment fails due to exceeding the node's attachment limit, subsequently marking the pod as 'Failed' to prevent it from being stuck in the 'ContainerCreating' state, thereby enabling the pod's owning controller to take corrective action by recreating the pod on a different node.
- URL: pull/132933
- Merged: No
2. add separate container runtime filesystem tests: This pull request introduces new end-to-end tests to validate container runtime filesystem statistics, focusing on scenarios with separate disk configurations, and includes significant refactoring to enhance the modularity and maintainability of existing eviction tests, while ensuring these specialized tests are executed only in dedicated test environments.
- URL: pull/133037
- Merged: No
3. Endpoints e2e updates for KEP-4974: This pull request focuses on cleaning up and updating the end-to-end (e2e) tests related to Kubernetes Enhancement Proposal (KEP) 4974 by introducing new helper functions in the test/e2e/framework/endpointslice directory, replacing existing code in test/e2e/network, and modifying tests to focus solely on EndpointSlices rather than both Endpoints and EndpointSlices, with the aim of improving test efficiency and relevance, particularly in the context of kube-proxy interactions.
- URL: pull/132991
- Merged: No
Other Open Pull Requests
- Typed Variants and PersistentVolume Controller Enhancements: This topic covers the introduction of typed variants for the client-go store and related data structures to enforce type safety at build-time. It also includes modifications to the PersistentVolume controller to utilize the typed store, along with improvements like renaming a test utility file and replacing
copyDeltaswithslices.Clone()for better code efficiency.
- Kube-proxy Node Management Improvements: Enhancements to the kube-proxy component include consolidating and simplifying the management of Node objects. A NodeManager is introduced to handle node lifecycle events based on NodeIPs and topology labels, ensuring backward compatibility and addressing a specific issue in the cloud-provider-azure repository.
- KYAML Support in Kubectl: The
kubectlcommand-line tool now supports KYAML, a strict subset of YAML designed to be more explicit and less error-prone. This new output format does not depend on whitespace, always quotes value strings, allows trailing commas and comments, and uses consistent syntax for structures and lists.
- In-place Pod Resizing Support: Changes to support in-place pod resizing at the pod level in Kubernetes have been introduced. These include API modifications, updates to expected fields in PodStatus for admission tests, and the addition of a feature gate for InPlacePodLevelResourcesVerticalScaling.
- CertificateSigningRequest Validation Enhancements: Declarative validation tags have been added to the v1 and v1beta1 types for CertificateSigningRequest (CSR) status.conditions. This ensures that the approved and denied conditions are mutually exclusive, with updates to validation logic and additional test cases to enhance the robustness of the Kubernetes API.
- CPUManager Policy Test Expansion: Test coverage for the
prefer-align=cpus-by-uncore-cacheCPUManager policy option has been expanded. Unit and end-to-end tests ensure compatibility withstrict-cpu-reservationand check for feature incompatibility withdistribute-cpus-across-numaanddistribute-cpus-across-cores.
- DRA Upgrade/Downgrade Test Enhancements: The existing DRA upgrade/downgrade test case has been enhanced to align with a related Kubernetes issue. This includes adding a pod with an inline claim, unschedulable pods, and verification of ResourceClaim cleanup.
- Startup Probe Worker Bug Fix: A bug in Kubernetes where startup probe workers terminate incorrectly for sidecar containers with
restartPolicy=Alwayshas been addressed. A minimal fix adds a container-level restart policy check specifically for init containers to the probe worker logic.
- Client-go Root CA File Reloading: Automatic reloading of the root CA file in the client-go component has been implemented. This resolves an issue tracked at a specific GitHub issue, inspired by previous contributions.
- CBOR Transcoding Support: The Kubernetes project has been updated to adopt text and JSON transcoding support for CBOR. This is achieved by bumping the
github.com/fxamacker/cbor/v2library to version 2.9.0, enabling automatic encoding and decoding of types that implement standard library interfaces.
- Expiring Cache Performance Improvements: The performance and memory footprint of the expiring cache have been enhanced by changing the heap size dependency. The heap size is now based on the number of unique keys before expiration, resulting in a smaller heap size and reduced memory usage.
- PodLevelResources Validation for Windows: Validation checks ensure that Pods using the
PodLevelResourcesfeature are rejected by the API server and kubelet if they target Windows OS. This addresses an issue outlined in a specific GitHub issue.
- Mirror Pods End-to-End Test: A temporary measure for testing purposes includes commits related to an end-to-end test for mirror pods with pod generation and a refactor check. This is due to the author's inability to run tests locally.
- Serial Node Tests Cleanup: The serial node tests have been cleaned up by deduplicating specific functions. This addresses a TODO from a previous discussion and ensures no user-facing changes are introduced.
- CrashLoopBackOff Backoff Duration Propagation: A mechanism has been introduced to allow the container management layer to propagate a specific backoff duration to the Kubelet's pod sync loop for containers in a CrashLoopBackOff state. This ensures that the calculated delay for container restarts is accurately respected.
- Kubectl Proxy URL Flag: A new
--proxy-urlflag has been added to thekubectlcommand. This allows users to specify a proxy URL that takes precedence over kubeconfig and environment variable settings, addressing the need for localhost proxy support.
- DRA Driver Watch Channel Bug Fix: A critical bug in the DRA driver has been addressed by fixing the conversion of watch channels. This ensures proper handling of apiserver restarts, particularly in scenarios where the apiserver closes the watch.
- DRA API ResourceClaim Strategy: A bug in the Kubernetes DRA API has been addressed by implementing a ResourceClaim strategy for DRADeviceTaints. This ensures that the "Tolerations" field is properly dropped when the DRADeviceTaints API is disabled.
- Kube-scheduler Configuration Enhancement: A new optional configuration field named
maxNodesToScorehas been proposed for the kube-scheduler's component config. This allows users to limit the number of candidate nodes to score, maintaining scheduler throughput when the minimum 1% threshold is too large.
- KubeletPodResources Feature Gates Promotion: The
KubeletPodResourcesDynamicResourcesandKubeletPodResourcesGetfeature gates are proposed to be promoted to Beta status. They will be enabled by default if the Device Resource Assignment (DRA) feature reaches General Availability (GA).
- Node-level Cpuset Bug Fix: A bug in the Kubernetes project has been addressed by ensuring that the node-level cpuset is always set, even when using a static policy. This prevents a race condition between the kubelet and systemd during cgroup creation.
- Memory Commit Metrics for Windows: A new feature has been added to the Kubernetes project by supporting memory commit metrics collection in the kubelet resource metrics collector. This targets Windows nodes to provide more accurate resource monitoring and management.
- Service Resource Named Ports Test: An end-to-end test case for mutating named ports in the
serviceresource has been introduced. This is part of a cleanup effort in the Kubernetes project and addresses the need for a conformance test related to a specific issue.
- Webhook RESTClient Content-Type Configuration: A bug in the Kubernetes project has been addressed by configuring the JSON content type for generic webhook RESTClients. This ensures that the Content-Type request header matches the JSON-encoded request bodies.
- Kubernetes Controller Manager Code Simplification: The Kubernetes Controller Manager (kcm) plugin code has been simplified. This makes the code path easier to understand and removes an unnecessary and potentially alarming
os.Exit()call.
3.2 Closed Pull Requests
This section provides a summary of pull requests that were closed in the repository over the past week. The top three pull requests with the highest number of commits are highlighted as 'key' pull requests. Other pull requests are grouped based on similar characteristics for easier analysis. Up to 25 pull requests are displayed in this section, while any remaining pull requests beyond this limit are omitted for brevity.
Pull Requests Closed This Week: 59
Key Closed Pull Requests
1. feat(validation-gen): Add union validation rule tags and enable +k8s:item chaining to union tags: This pull request introduces new features to the validation-gen tool by adding union validation rule tags such as +k8s:unionMember, +k8s:unionDiscriminator, and +k8s:zeroOrOneOfMember, enabling the chaining of +k8s:item with union tags, and enhancing the validator context with a ParentPath, thereby improving the tool's capability to handle complex validation scenarios in Kubernetes.
- URL: pull/133008
- Merged: Yes
2. [WIP] Add PSA for blocking .host on pod probes: This pull request aims to introduce a Pod Security Admission (PSA) policy to block the use of the .host field in pod probes and lifecycle handlers, while also updating and fixing related test fixtures and unit tests to ensure compliance with the new restrictions.
- URL: pull/132916
- Merged: No
3. [DNM] CI TEST - Master vg item and union tags v2: This pull request is a test for continuous integration (CI) on the Kubernetes project, focusing on the implementation and validation of new tags such as +k8s:unionMember, +k8s:unionDiscriminator, and +k8s:zeroOrOneOfMember, which are designed to enhance the validation logic and allow for more complex tag chaining in the codebase, although it was not merged.
- URL: pull/133004
- Merged: No
Other Closed Pull Requests
- Version Bumps and Library Updates: This topic involves updating the Kubernetes project by bumping the version of the smd library from v4 to v6 and updating the kube-openapi. These changes are part of a cleanup effort and do not introduce any user-facing changes.
- Pod Resize and Memory Limit Features: This topic covers features related to pod resizing and memory limits in Kubernetes. One pull request introduces a feature to retry pending pod resizes only when resource requests decrease, while another allows for reducing memory limits in pods with a best-effort check to prevent out-of-memory kills.
- Server-Side Apply Enhancements: Enhancements to server-side apply in Kubernetes include supporting optional list map keys and updating the structured-merge-diff library. These changes allow for the extension of key sets in associative lists without errors and include integration tests to validate functionality.
- Reflector and WatchList Features: This topic includes features related to the reflector and WatchList in Kubernetes. One pull request enables the reflector to detect unsupported meta.Table GroupVersionKinds, while another aims to promote the WatchList feature to beta status.
- CI Testing and Performance Improvements: This topic involves testing and performance improvements in Kubernetes. Pull requests include testing continuous integration processes and enhancing the performance of the
pull-kubernetes-verifyprow job by optimizing garbage collection parameters.
- Bug Fixes and Regression Handling: This topic addresses various bug fixes and regression handling in Kubernetes. Pull requests include fixing a memory equality check issue, addressing a cost issue on the CEL side, and ensuring a single HPA cacher is used for different API versions.
- Cleanup and Deprecation Removals: This topic involves cleanup tasks and the removal of deprecated utilities in Kubernetes. Pull requests include removing the deprecated
maxPtrutility and replacing thestrPtrutility withptr.To.
- Feature Enhancements and New Features: This topic covers various feature enhancements and new features in Kubernetes. Pull requests include adding configurable container restart rules, estimating the cost of LIST requests, and utilizing object size estimation for non-recursive lists.
- Probe Behavior and Kubelet Updates: This topic addresses updates to probe behavior and kubelet in Kubernetes. Pull requests include handling liveness and startup probes for non-running containers and restoring pre-1.33 kubelet behavior to prevent unnecessary image credential fetching.
- Cache and Configuration Management: This topic involves managing cache snapshots and configuration updates in Kubernetes. Pull requests include resetting cache snapshots when inconsistencies are detected and ensuring kube-proxy pod restarts when its configuration file is updated.
- Metric and Resource Allocation Updates: This topic covers updates related to metrics and resource allocation in Kubernetes. Pull requests include removing a redundant metric field and demonstrating the compatibility of a device plugin with a Dynamic Resource Allocation driver.
- Go Version and Publishing Bot Updates: This topic involves updates to the Go version for publishing bot rules in Kubernetes. The pull request adds missing rules for release-1.32 and removes rules for the end-of-life release-1.30.
3.3 Pull Request Discussion Insights
This section will analyze the tone and sentiment of discussions within this project's open and closed pull requests that occurred within the past week. It aims to identify potentially heated exchanges and to maintain a constructive project environment.
Based on our analysis, there are no instances of toxic discussions in the project's open or closed pull requests from the past week.
IV. Contributors
4.1 Contributors
Active Contributors:
We consider an active contributor in this project to be any contributor who has made at least 1 commit, opened at least 1 issue, created at least 1 pull request, or made more than 2 comments in the last month.
If there are more than 10 active contributors, the list is truncated to the top 10 based on contribution metrics for better clarity.
| Contributor | Commits | Pull Requests | Issues | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ylink-lfs | 38 | 19 | 7 | 56 |
| pohly | 48 | 13 | 6 | 27 |
| serathius | 26 | 15 | 1 | 19 |
| liggitt | 5 | 2 | 0 | 49 |
| PatrickLaabs | 31 | 5 | 3 | 14 |
| natasha41575 | 21 | 6 | 1 | 22 |
| yongruilin | 22 | 4 | 3 | 21 |
| macsko | 8 | 4 | 11 | 27 |
| BenTheElder | 6 | 0 | 0 | 41 |
| tallclair | 14 | 3 | 3 | 25 |