Gardener Project

Homogeneous Kubernetes clusters at scale on any infrastructure using hosted control planes.

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Fresh from the community: multi-arch gardener-node-agent for remote setups 🏗️, garden cluster kubeconfigs for runtime extensions 🔑, gardenadm restore for self-hosted Shoots 🔄, and programmatic log access for VictoriaLogs 🔍

🎥 Watch now: https://t.co/mgbpW3A0mD

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🌱 TSC meeting recording is live! GEP-0084 dives into Observability Extensions for Gardener — a big step forward for visibility into your cloud-native clusters. Catch up on the discussion!

🎥 Watch now: https://t.co/Lc5OgnL9o1

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Gardener v1.154 is out! ✍️ Pod selector overwrites in NetworkPolicys, 🔒 manual finalizer edits forbidden, 🌍 dedicated DNSRecords for dashboard & discovery-server, ☁️ bring-your-own subnet on GCP.

🎥 https://t.co/LcaaCeYlXC

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Lots happening in the Gardener project! 🌱 This week: HTTPS for local registry 🫆, improved graceful watch termination ⏱️, HA etcd scale-in support 📉, an overhauled kube-apiserver health dashboard 📊, and a leaner admission-controller 🧠

🎥 Watch now: https://t.co/Vn0AOIGloB

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🎥 TSC meeting recording is live! GEP-0078 tackles homogeneous version profiles for extension-managed components — a big step toward consistency across your Gardener clusters. Catch up on the Oct 1 discussion:

🎥 Watch now: https://t.co/vW8AaJ2Xwj

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Lots happening in the Gardener project! 🌱 Shoot maintenance reconciliation now handles failed-state shoots with healthy conditions 🔄, and the local gardenadm dev setup gets a GinK upgrade 🛠️

🎥 Watch now: https://t.co/eTWxVCzmLq

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Packed agenda this week 🌱 kube-api-linter lands as a golangci-lint plugin 🕵️‍♂️, the Gardener Dashboard gets a fresh update 🕹, and gardener.clusterTypes Helm values simplify extension installation 📡

🎥 Watch now: https://t.co/QwxhZRKJSh

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Lots happening in the Gardener project! 🌱 This week: 🔔 ManagedResourcesHonored constraint status, 🚪 a new Envoy Gateway extension for Shoots, 📌 pinning Shoot control planes to AZs & 🎮 reducing controller load on ETCD restart.

🎥 Watch now: https://t.co/GF0mgC4z9G

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🌱 TSC meeting recording from 2026/08/27 is live! GEP-0066 tackles making Shoot domains mutable — a game-changer for flexible DNS management in Gardener.

🎥 Watch now: https://t.co/Z4PCTTIHLO

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@dancryptoscan For the individual demos, we link the corresponding PRs with the actual changes. We don’t currently have a separate written transcript/summary of the demo itself, though.

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Fresh from the community: demos cover 📡 `sd_notify` for OTel Collector, 🛡️ global observability secret rotation, 🔖 multiple `volumePolicies` in `pvc-autoscaler`, 🔑 self-hosted Shoots on OpenStack & ⏱️ jittered `containerd` logrotate!

🎥 Watch now: https://t.co/DJNPVOKKTM

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@dancryptoscan The sessions are also listed on the 2026 review meetings page (https://t.co/y6WujZqwPu), which gives a searchable overview of all demos and topics.

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Fresh from the community: this week's demos cover ☁️ better BYO infrastructure support for AWS and 🔐 custom registry CA bundle support — plus bug fixes and feature gate promotions worth knowing about!

🎥 Watch now: https://t.co/2ftykdBwKY

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🌱 TSC meeting recording is here! GEP-0063 explores the Diki extension — leveling up security validation in your Gardener clusters. Cloud-native folks, this one's for you.

🎥 Watch now: https://t.co/mq6dgig03p

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Our latest special edition review for Kubernetes v1.36 is here! 🎓 GA graduations, 🌸 alpha→beta promotions, 🗞️ brand-new alpha features, 🧼 security & deprecations, plus 🪴 what's changing in Gardener itself.

🎥 Watch now: https://t.co/fqX5qyqKun

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TSC meeting recording is live! GEP-0068 explores Gateway API extensions for Gardener Shoot Clusters — a big step for cloud-native networking. Catch up on the discussion from 2026/07/23.

🎥 Watch now: https://t.co/eWrCa9QoIT

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Lots happening in the Gardener project! 🛡️ Machine preservation on failure, daily ETCD defrag scheduling 🗄️, `diki` config merge/validate commands 🔒, `gardenadm discover` split into subcommands 🔍, and resource references in Extensions 📎

🎥 Watch now: https://t.co/YdiFEwxnqn

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🌱 TSC meeting recording is live! GEP-0043 dives into Spegel registry support in the registry-cache extension — peer-to-peer image distribution for your Gardener clusters. Catch the full discussion from 2026/07/16.

🎥 Watch now: https://t.co/3XZ0Lu6oe8

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Fresh from the community: the 🐶 VPN Watchdog keeps tunnels healthy, Calico gets 🔀 NFTables mode support, a new 🔍 Shoot constraint lands, and the 🏗️ Gardener Landscape Kit makes its debut!

🎥 Watch now: https://t.co/wJiridB8Xv

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Packed agenda this week 🌱 PVC autoscaler lands as a Seed component 💾, Falco gets advanced config options 🦅, Alicloud gains dual-stack & custom routes ☁️, DNS service migrates to next-gen 🌍, plus a handy gardenlet re-bootstrap helper 🔑

🎥 Watch now: https://t.co/kzP1rohPJM