June
Getting Started with OpenTelemetry on a Gardener Shoot Cluster
Monday, June 30, 2025 in June
11 minute read
In this blog post, we will explore how to set up an OpenTelemetry based observability stack on a Gardener shoot cluster. OpenTelemetry is an open-source observability framework that provides a set of APIs, SDKs, agents, and instrumentation to collect …
Improving Credential Management for Seed Backups
Wednesday, June 25, 2025 in June
2 minute read
Gardener has introduced a new feature gate, DoNotCopyBackupCredentials, to enhance the security and clarity of how backup credentials for managed seeds are handled. This change moves away from an implicit credential-copying mechanism to a more …
Enhancing Meltdown Protection with Dependency-Watchdog Annotations
Wednesday, June 25, 2025 in June
2 minute read
Gardener’s dependency-watchdog is a crucial component for ensuring cluster stability. During infrastructure-level outages where worker nodes cannot communicate with the control plane, it activates a “meltdown protection” mechanism. …
Enabling Seamless IPv4 to Dual-Stack Migration for Kubernetes Clusters on GCP
Wednesday, June 25, 2025 in June
4 minute read
Gardener continues to enhance its networking capabilities, now offering a streamlined migration path for existing IPv4-only shoot clusters on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) to dual-stack (IPv4 and IPv6). This allows clusters to leverage the benefits of …
Gardener Enhances Observability with OpenTelemetry Integration for Logging
Wednesday, June 18, 2025 in June
3 minute read
Gardener is advancing its observability capabilities by integrating OpenTelemetry, starting with log collection and processing. This strategic move, outlined in GEP-34: OpenTelemetry Operator And Collectors, lays the groundwork for a more …
Enhanced Internal Traffic Management: L7 Load Balancing for kube-apiservers in Gardener
Wednesday, June 18, 2025 in June
3 minute read
Gardener continuously evolves to optimize performance and reliability. A recent improvement focuses on how internal control plane components communicate with kube-apiserver instances, introducing cluster-internal Layer 7 (L7) load balancing to ensure …
Enhanced Extension Management: Introducing `autoEnable` and `clusterCompatibility`
Wednesday, June 18, 2025 in June
3 minute read
Gardener’s extension mechanism has been enhanced with two new fields in the ControllerRegistration and operatorv1alpha1.Extension APIs, offering operators more granular control and improved safety when managing extensions. These changes, …
Taking Gardener to the Next Level: Highlights from the 7th Gardener Community Hackathon in Schelklingen
Tuesday, June 17, 2025 in June
6 minute read
Taking Gardener to the Next Level: Highlights from the 7th Gardener Community Hackathon in SchelklingenThe latest “Hack The Garden” event, held in June 2025 at Schlosshof in Schelklingen, brought together members of the Gardener community …