Gardener Review Meetings 2025 â
Overview â
In case you couldn't participate and are interested in catching up, you can find the contents of the review meetings we have had in 2025 here.
Check back regularly for updates and upcoming topics!
Reviews â
2025/07/30 - v1.124 Release â
Demo Agenda đ â
Presenter(s) | Duration | Topic | Reference(s) |
---|---|---|---|
@timuthy | 10m | đŧī¸ Image Rewriter Extension | extension-image-rewriter (repo) |
@oliver-goetz | 5m | âī¸ L7 Load-Balancing Metrics Dashboards | #12509 |
@domdom82 | 10m | đ§Ļ CIDR Overlap w/ Seed For HA Shoot s | #12204 |
@vitanovs | 10m | đĒ Vertical Pod Autoscaler Feature Gates | #12339 |
No Demo, But Still Worth Celebrating đ â
- đĒ [USER] Starting with Kubernetes v1.34, setting the field
.spec.cloudProfileName
is be forbidden. The field will be dropped from existingShoot
s once. Users are advised to drop this field and specify the cloud profile using the.spec.cloudProfile.name
field instead. #11816 - đ [OPERATOR] A bug has been fixed which caused
Pod
s from namespaces other thankube-system
and labeled withnode.gardener.cloud/critical-component=true
to be considered by gardener-resource-manager. #12557 - đ [OPERATOR] A bug has been fixed which prevented the seed-specific Plutono dashboards from being provided by
gardenlet
in case its seed cluster was the garden runtime cluster at the same time. #12476
2025/07/16 - v1.123 Release â
Demo Agenda đ â
Presenter(s) | Duration | Topic | Reference(s) |
---|---|---|---|
@LucaBernstein | 5m | đĒ Defaulting Machine Image Version From Prefix | #12374 |
@oliver-goetz | 10m | đ Simplified gardenlet Deployment Configuration | #11996 |
@timebertt | 10m | đââĄī¸ Bastion Controller In provider-local | #12366 |
@ishan16696 | 15m | đ đŧââī¸ Immutable Backup Buckets | #12175 |
No Demo, But Still Worth Celebrating đ â
- đĒ [USER] The deprecated
url
annotation in<shoot-name>.monitoring
secrets in the project namespace has been removed. Please use theplutono-url
annotation instead. #12396 - ⨠[OPERATOR] The
NodeAgentAuthorizer
feature gate has been graduated to GA and is locked to true. #12405 - ⨠[DEVELOPER]
BackupBucket
/BackupEntry
controllers now supportWorkloadIdentity
type of credentials, provider extensions may need to adjust the respective controllers or to explicitly disallowBackupBucket
s of their type to configureWorkloadIdentity
. #12321
The occurrence for the v1.122 release was skipped because of too few topics.
2025/06/25 - v1.121 Release â
Demo Agenda đ â
Presenter(s) | Duration | Topic | Reference(s) |
---|---|---|---|
@RadaBDimitrova | 5m | đŠē Improved Health Check For Rolling Updates | #11869 |
@ashwani2k | 5m | đŖ dependency-watchdog Reports Scale Down | #12272 |
@timebertt | 10m | đŧ GEP-28: gardenadm bootstrap Progress | #2906 (issue) |
@timuthy | 5m | đĻž New Capabilities For Extension Shoot Webhooks | #12273 |
@vpnachev | 5m | đ
New DoNotCopyBackupCredentials Feature Gate | #12168 |
No Demo, But Still Worth Celebrating đ â
- đĒ [OPERATOR]
gardenlet
no longer deploysControlPlane
resources with.spec.purpose=exposure
forShoot
s using unmanaged DNS provider.gardenlet
will now cleanup anyControlPlane
exposure resource as part of the reconciliation and deletion flows for such Shoots. #12162 - đ [USER] A bug causing the
kube-apiserver
to crash when anonymous authentication is configured viaStructuredAuthentication
was fixed. #12198 - ⨠[DEVELOPER] Introduced new version classifications
unavailable
andexpired
. They are not meant to be set manually but should act as computed classification states. #12298
2025/06/18 - v1.120 Release â
Demo Agenda đ â
Presenter(s) | Duration | Topic | Reference(s) |
---|---|---|---|
@DockToFuture | 10m | đ¯ Single-Stack IPv4 -> Dual-Stack IPv{4,6} Migration For GCP | extension-provider-gcp#1010 |
@nickytd | 5m | đ°ī¸ GEP-34: OpenTelemetry Operator And Collectors | #11861 |
@oliver-goetz | 10m | âī¸ Cluster-Internal L7 Load-Balancing Endpoints For kube-apiserver s | Summary |
@timuthy | 10m | đ¸ Compatibility Fields In Extension API | #11982 |
No Demo, But Still Worth Celebrating đ â
- ⨠[OPERATOR] The
Garden
resource has been enhanced with a new field,spec.VirtualCluster.ETCD.Main.Backup.Region
, which enables the configuration of the backup bucket region. Previously, the region was derived from the provider (spec.runtimeCluster.provider.region
). This behavior remains as a fallback if the backup region is not explicitly specified. #12186 - ⨠[DEVELOPER] The
.spec.purpose
field in theControlPlane
resource is now deprecated and will be removed in Gardenerv1.123
. In the times before SNI was introduced and unconditionally enabled it was previously used to manage control plane exposure. #12161
2025/06/11 - Hack The Garden Wrap Up â
Demo Agenda đ â
Presenter(s) | Duration | Topic | Reference(s) |
---|---|---|---|
@axel7born | 5m | âĄī¸ Replace OpenVPN With Wireguard | Summary |
@afritzler | 5m | âŗī¸ Make gardener-operator Single-Node Ready | Summary |
@nickytd | 5m | đĄ OpenTelemetry Transport For Shoot Metrics | Summary |
@rickardsjp | 5m | đŦ Cluster Network Observability | Summary |
@tobschli | 5m | đ Signing Of ManagedResource Secrets | Summary |
@Gerrit91 | 5m | đ§° Migrate ControlPlane Reconciliation Of Provider Extensions To ManagedResource s | Summary |
@benedikt-haug | 5m | ⨠Dashboard Usability Improvements | Summary |
@klocke-io | 5m | đ Documentation Revamp | Summary |
@Gerrit91 | 5m | âšī¸ Expose EgressCIDRs In shoot-info ConfigMap | Summary |
@kon-angelo | 5m | đ Overcome Maximum Of 450 Node s On Azure | Summary |
@Nuckal777 | 5m | đĻ Multiple Parallel Versions In A Gardener Landscape (Canary Deployments) | Summary |
@rrhubenov | 5m | đ§âđ§ Worker Group Node Roll-out | Summary |
@kon-angelo | 5m | đ Instance Scheduled Events Watcher | Summary |
No Demo, But Still Worth Celebrating đ â
- âī¸ Cluster-Internal L7 Load-Balancing Endpoints For
kube-apiserver
s. Summary - âģī¸ GEP-32 â Version Classification Lifecycles. Summary
2025/05/21 - v1.119 Release â
Demo Agenda đ â
Presenter(s) | Duration | Topic | Reference(s) |
---|---|---|---|
@timuthy | 10m | đĄī¸ CVE-2025-47282, CVE-2025-47283, CVE-2025-47284 | #12136 (issue), #12137 (issue), external-dns-management#462 (issue) |
@shafeeqes | 5m | đĒđģ Forceful Redeployment Of gardenlet s | #11972 |
@rfranzke | 10m | gardenadm token + gardenadm join | #11934, #11942 |
@ScheererJ | 5m | kube-proxy 's Readiness Probe | #12015 |
No Demo, But Still Worth Celebrating đ â
- ⨠[OPERATOR] The support for the already deprecated
shoot.gardener.cloud/managed-seed-api-server
annotation is now removed. Instead, consider enabling high availability for theManagedSeed
'sShoot
control plane. #11838 - ⨠[OPERATOR] Spreading Istio
ingress-gateway
pods across hosts is enforced only for zonal Istio deployments now. #12007
2025/05/07 - v1.118 Release â
Demo Agenda đ â
Presenter(s) | Duration | Topic | Reference(s) |
---|---|---|---|
@domdom82 | 10m | đ§Ļ CIDR Overlap w/ Seed For Non-HA Shoot s | #11582 |
@vlerenc | 10m | đ° Leaner Clusters, Lower Bills | blog post |
@grolu | 10m | đš Recent Gardener Dashboard Features | 1.80.0 (release) |
@shafeeqes, @ary1992 | 15m | đĻ In-Place Node Updates | #11191, #11393, #11631, #11713, #11718, #11843, #11844, #11953 |
No Demo, But Still Worth Celebrating đ â
- đ [OPERATOR] Gardener core components are automatically restarted (due to a failing liveness probe) in case their Kubernetes API server watch caches do not sync for
3m
. #11966 - ⨠[USER] The CA bundle of the kubelet is now available via a
ConfigMap
the project's namespace, called<shoot-name>.ca-kubelet
. #11916 - ⨠[OPERATOR] The
Seed
API feature new fieldspec.backup.credentialsRef
, it is of typecorev1.ObjectReference
and is allowed to refer to aSecret
. #11583
2025/04/23 - v1.117 Release â
Demo Agenda đ â
Presenter(s) | Duration | Topic | Reference(s) |
---|---|---|---|
@axel7born | 10m | đ¯ Single-Stack IPv4 -> Dual-Stack IPv{4,6} Migration | #11692 |
@oliver-goetz | 5m | đ SPDY Support For L7 Load-Balancing | #11807 |
@oliver-goetz | 10m | đ§ââī¸ Extension Care Controller | #11769 |
@hendrikKahl | 5m | đ machine-controller-manager Processing Throughput | #11879 |
No Demo, But Still Worth Celebrating đ â
- đĒ [USER] The VPA version is updated to 1.3.0. Upstream VPA 1.3.0 does no longer serve API version
autoscaling.k8s.io/v1beta2
. Gardener's VPA installation will continue to serve API versionautoscaling.k8s.io/v1beta2
until Gardener v1.119. [...] #11774 - ⨠[OPERATOR]
NamespacedCloudProfile.spec.limits.maxNodesTotal
can now also be used to override the limit defined in the parentCloudProfile
with an increased value. Increasing requires additional permissions granted by the custom verbraise-spec-limits
. #11796 - ⨠[OPERATOR]
gardener-operator
automatically adds thenetworking.resources.gardener.cloud/to-virtual-garden-kube-apiserver-tcp-443: allowed
label to the gardenlet deployment in case it is deployed to the garden runtime cluster. Thus, it is not required anymore to configure this label in theGardenlet
resource. #11855
2025/04/09 - v1.116 Release â
Demo Agenda đ â
Presenter(s) | Duration | Topic | Reference(s) |
---|---|---|---|
@vitanovs | 10m | đŽ New ShootState Finalizer Controller | #11491 |
@unmarshall, @Shreyas-s14 | 10m | đ¤ etcd-druid CEL Validations + API Module | #11545 |
@rfranzke | 5m | đŽ Bug Fixes In NetworkPolicy Controller | #11780 |
@timuthy | 10m | đ§Š Extensions For Seed Reconciliations | #11764 |
@ScheererJ | 10m | đ GEP-28 Update: Autonomous Shoot Clusters | #2906 (issue) |
No Demo, But Still Worth Celebrating đ â
- đĒ [OPERATOR] Please note, if you configure
spec.extensions
in yourGarden
resource:gardener-operator
adds agarden-
prefix to all extension resources configured via theGarden
. Existing extension resources (not prefixed) will be deleted automatically at the end of the reconciliation. [...]. #11764 - đĒ [DEVELOPER] The extension
class
field in the generic extension controller was removed. Please use the new fieldclasses
instead. #11764 - ⨠[OPERATOR] The feature gate
NewVPN
has been graduated to GA. It was already enabled by default and can now no longer be turned off. The feature gate will be removed in a future release. #11714
2025/03/26 - v1.115 Release â
Demo Agenda đ â
Presenter(s) | Duration | Topic | Reference(s) |
---|---|---|---|
@shafeeqes | 10m | đī¸ Drop TokenInvalidator Controller And Webhook | #11497 |
@LucaBernstein | 5m | đ Latest NamespacedCloudProfile s Features | #11647, #11550 |
@ialidzhikov | 10m | đ Replace TopologyAwareHints With ServiceTrafficDistribution | #11178 |
@ScheererJ | 5m | âī¸ Better CoreDNS Configurability | #11526 |
@oliver-goetz | 10m | đ
Drop HorizontalPodAutoscaler For gardener-apiserver | #11684 |
@hendrikKahl | 5m | đ GOAWAY Chance For gardener-apiserver | #11551 |
No Demo, But Still Worth Celebrating đ â
- ⨠[USER] If the Gardener operator has defined a control plane wildcard certificate, the
.status.advertisedAddresses
of theShoot
contain an entry with an endpoint secured by this certificate. Note that this endpoint is specific to the seed cluster the Shoot is scheduled to. Read all about it in this document. #11612 - ⨠[OPERATOR] The
injectGardenKubeconfig
field is defaulted totrue
for extensions responsible forWorker
resources when registered via theoperator.gardener.cloud/v1alpha1.Extension
API. #11658
2025/03/12 - v1.114 Release â
Demo Agenda đ â
Presenter(s) | Duration | Topic | Reference(s) |
---|---|---|---|
@AleksandarSavchev | 5m | âī¸ Deny-All NetworkPolicy In kube-system Namespace For Shoot s | #11502 |
@timuthy | 10m | đ Minimum Resource Requirements For Shoot ETCD + API Server | #11252 |
@timuthy | 5m | đ¨ Extension Example Manifest Generator | #11329 |
@Wieneo | 5m | đī¸ Dropping Reserved VPN Authz Server | #11338 |
@oliver-goetz | 10m | âī¸ L7 Load-Balancing For Requests To kube-apiserver s | #11085 |
@rfranzke | 5m | đ Garden Access For Extensions No Longer By Default | #11593 |
No Demo, But Still Worth Celebrating đ â
- đĒ [OPERATOR] â ī¸ Gardener does no longer support garden, seed, or shoot clusters with Kubernetes versions <= 1.26. Make sure to upgrade all existing clusters before upgrading to this Gardener version. #10664
- đĒ [USER] All
Seed
s are now automatically labeled withname.seed.gardener.cloud/<name>=true
(â no longerseed.gardener.cloud/<name>=true
) where<name>
is their own name, and (if applicable) the name of their parent seed in case they are managed seeds. This label can be used as selector for requests. #11479 - ⨠[OPERATOR]
gardener-operator
now waits for requiredExtension
s to get ready early in the reconcile flow. It addresses use-cases where extensions run mutating webhooks in the garden runtime cluster that must be present when Garden components are deployed. #11523
2025/03/05 - Kubernetes v1.32 Special Edition â
Demo Agenda đ â
Presenters: @marc1404, @LucaBernstein
Duration | Topic | Reference(s) |
---|---|---|
10m | đ Graduation Ceremony Graduated Features | KEP-4358, KEP-1967, KEP-4193, KEP-3221, KEP-1847 |
10m | đ¸ Beta Bloom Alpha -> Beta Promotions | KEP-4368, KEP-4633, KEP-4247, KEP-1790, KEP-3476, KEP-4381, KEP-4601, KEP-3157 |
10m | đī¸ Fresh Off The Press New Alpha Features | KEP-4832, KEP-3962, KEP-2837, KEP-4818, KEP-4817, KEP-4827 & KEP-4828, KEP-4802 & KEP-4885 |
5m | đ§ŧ Security, Deprecations & Removals | CVE-2025-0426, CVE-2024-9042, KEP-4381, kubernetes/kubernetes#127017 |
5m | đĒ´ What's Changing In Gardener | #11020, #10666, #10858 |
2025/02/26 - v1.113 Release â
Demo Agenda đ â
Presenter(s) | Duration | Topic | Reference(s) |
---|---|---|---|
@maboehm | 5m | đˇ Maximum Node Count For Shoot s | #11279 |
@domdom82 | 5m | đ ACL Reconciliation On Infrastructure Changes | extension-acl#105 |
@Wieneo | 5m | đ GEP-30: Rework API Server Proxy | #11214 (issue) |
@ishan16696 | 10m | đ Fix Failing ETCD Restorations | etcd-backup-restore#778 (issue) |
@timebertt | 5m | đĒ Refactor E2E Tests To Ordered It s | #11379 (issue) |
@vpnachev | 5m | đĸ Public Gardener Information Discovery | #11238 |
No Demo, But Still Worth Celebrating đ â
- đ [USER] The ETCD encryption config now properly configures a 32-byte key. #11150
- ⨠[OPERATOR] Enhance the
gardener-operator
to allow specification of more than a single network range for.spec.runtimeCluster.networking.{nodes,pods,services}
, and.spec.virtualCluster.networking.services
, which also allows dual-stack configurations. #11251 - ⨠[OPERATOR] Shoot system and Shoot control plane containers, which do not require privilege escalations, now forbid privilege escalation explicitly. There is an issue in Kubernetes about the privilege escalation configuration being true by default. #11241
2025/02/19 - v1.112 Release â
Demo Agenda đ â
Presenter(s) | Duration | Topic | Reference(s) |
---|---|---|---|
@domdom82 | 5m | đĄī¸ Prevent Leaking kube-apiserver 's Service IP in Shoot | #10949 |
@rfranzke | 10m | đ¤šââī¸ Credentials Rotation Without Workers Rollout | #11027 |
@oliver-goetz | 5m | đ¯ Wrapper For OperatingSystemConfig Provisioning Script | #11208 |
@marc1404 | 10m | đĨ Cluster Autoscaler Priority Expander Config | #11045 |
@petersutter | 5m | đŧ Structured Authentication With Dashboard | #11080 |
No Demo, But Still Worth Celebrating đ â
- ⨠[USER] All
Seed
s are now automatically labeled withseed.gardener.cloud/<name>=true
where<name>
is their own name, and (if applicable) the name of their parent seed in case they are managed seeds. This label can be used as selector for requests. #11062 - đ [OPERATOR] Rewrite Setup Gardener document #11260
2025/02/12 - v1.111 Release â
Demo Agenda đ â
Presenter(s) | Duration | Topic | Reference(s) |
---|---|---|---|
@marc1404 | 5m | âī¸ Default Machine Image Version | #10954 |
@timuthy | 10m | đ¨đģâđž Gardener Operator Manages Extension Resources | #11192, #11001 |
@dimityrmirchev | 5m | đĢ Secret /ConfigMap Tampering Protection | #11108 |
@oliver-goetz | 5m | đī¸ Improved Deletion Logic In gardener-node-agent | #11015 |
No Demo, But Still Worth Celebrating đ â
- ⨠[USER] Expired versions from the
NamespacedCloudProfile
are always dropped, except for already applied versions. #10910 - ⨠[OPERATOR] Now
vali
contains the managed control plane logs from the early stages ofShoot
reconcile. #11082 - đ [OPERATOR] An issue was fixed in
gardener-operator
that prevented configuring OIDC forgardener-dashboard
while using Structured Authentication. #11080