Gardener Project

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

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Gardener v1.143 review meeting 🌱 Demos: 🌐 automatic VPN MTU config, 🔀 dual-stack IPv4/IPv6 on OpenStack, 🤝 garden-shoot trust config, 🌐 self-hosted shoot control plane exposure & 🔗 HTTP/2 coalescing fix for observability.

🎥 https://t.co/d38dYIsOub

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Packed agenda this week 🌱 Highlights: 🏗️ BackupEntryForGarden feature gate, 🪆 Gardener-in-Docker (GinD), 🗑️ legacy Helm chart removal, 🏷️ configurable ManagedResource deletion propagation & ⚙️ tunable cluster-autoscaler binpacking!

🎥 https://t.co/CkKacTLK3F

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Fresh from the hackathon 🌱 demos span ManagedSeedSet, 🛡️ WireGuard replacing OpenVPN, 🔒 ACL extension for virtual gardens, 💾 automated disaster recovery, 🔐 etcd backup encryption, ⚡ ManagedResource splitting & more!

🎥 Watch now: https://t.co/HF9tJ8K1I3

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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: https://t.co/Mra6DnbgSu

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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: https://t.co/NdKa8ku7n2

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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: https://t.co/zbry4Xx7Br

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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: https://t.co/yytoLFIRE8

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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: https://t.co/AZtIr04dlg

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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: https://t.co/eR2KYA1Fk0

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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: https://t.co/Nhb3zVfFK8

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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: https://t.co/EvmfBXH9gj

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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: https://t.co/YfCaDlAzkq

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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: https://t.co/t3yK1ajNX9

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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: https://t.co/5NO7yYV7mY

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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: https://t.co/wWGubFJBfk

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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: https://t.co/okesvkmWlH

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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: https://t.co/kYtW5ZohGU

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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: https://t.co/0ajuEaXY15

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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: https://t.co/boQMmaKyJx

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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: https://t.co/PvnHZZApV8