What’s The Ideology Behind The ‘Mandala’ Theme?
Like every release, at the end of the release cycle, the lead of the release team gets a chance to present a logo and theme for that release. This time Kubernetes 1.29 was released with a ‘Mandala’ theme and a logo that shows typical designs very similar to Indian culture. It represents the Universe of Cloud-native community where people of different backgrounds and diversity are contributing to Kubernetes, through which Kubernetes is where it is now. In this release, around 1422 contributors from 888+ countries along with 1.29 Release Team contributed to the project and made this release possible, which resulted in 49 enhancements (11 stable, 19 beta, 19 alpha).
What’s New In Kubernetes 1.29 ?
Kubernetes is an open-source Container Orchestrator tool that helps in managing microservices and it provides several functionalities and features around that with some monitoring features too. Kubernetes itself is a huge and complex project under CNCF (Cloud Native Computing Foundation). Kubernetes is a huge and complex project and 2nd largest open-source project in the world after Linux-Kernel. Every year 3 releases/updates of Kubernetes come every quarter, which gives us an idea of like from what velocity the project is moving ahead. In this article, we will discuss some of the prominent features, enhancements, and deprecations of the recent release Kubernetes 1.29. But before jumping on it, let’s see some real-life use cases of Kubernetes to give a gist about how awesomely the project is evolving and helping out large enterprises in managing their applications.