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KOPS BRINGS AKAMAI ETCd MANAGEMENT TO THE FOREFRONT

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hakman my-git9 kubernetes-prow[bot] Bslabe123 rifelpet moshevayner yucori
13 people shipped this
hakman @hakman 3 cited my-git9 @my-git9 2 cited kubernetes-prow[bot] @kubernetes-prow[bot] 1 cited Bslabe123 @Bslabe123 1 cited rifelpet @rifelpet 1 cited moshevayner @moshevayner 1 cited yucori @yucori 1 cited Mario Jason Braganza @jasonbraganza yussufsh @yussufsh Patrick Ohly @pohly vitorfloriano @vitorfloriano windsonsea @windsonsea dependabot @dependabot

Kops is about to make etcd volume management on Akamai a first-class citizen, and the CI pipeline is getting smarter about SSH user discovery.

The headline act is kops gaining the ability to manage etcd block storage volumes on Akamai [1], a feature that closes a long-standing gap for kops users on that platform. In the same repo, hakman keeps the networking stack current, bumping default CNI plugins to v1.7.1/v1.8.0/v1.9.1 across Kubernetes minors [2], alongside updates to Cilium v1.18.12 [3] and Calico v3.31.6 [4], so clusters get modern networking defaults without manual tweaks. Over in test-infra, the kops GCE periodics now automatically discover the SSH user for every eligible job, not just the two canaries, and both canaries returned green on their first post-merge run [5]. The release pipeline is also getting a performance boost: the merged logrus bump to v1.10.0 brings "substantial performance improvements, concurrency correctness" [6], which is worth rebuilding release tooling for. Meanwhile, the website desk spent the day on translations, adding Korean docs for pod group scheduling [7] and syncing Chinese storage classes [8] and pod priority preemption [9] docs. On the org front, sig-scalability adds three new inference-perf maintainers to align with the OWNERS_ALIASES [10].

Action items

References

  1. [1] feat(akamai): manage etcd block storage volumes ↗ kubernetes/kops
  2. [2] Update default CNI plugins version to v1.7.1 / v1.8.0 / v1.9.1 ↗ kubernetes/kops
  3. [3] Update Cilium to v1.18.12 ↗ kubernetes/kops
  4. [4] Update Calico to v3.31.6 ↗ kubernetes/kops
  5. [5] kops: discover the SSH user on all eligible GCE periodics ↗ kubernetes/test-infra
  6. [6] Merge pull request #4494 from kubernetes/dependabot/go_modules/github.com/sirupsen/logrus-1.10.0 ↗ kubernetes/release
  7. [7] [ko] Translate content/ko/docs/concepts/scheduling-eviction/podgroup-scheduling.md ↗ kubernetes/website
  8. [8] [zh-cn]sync storage-classes ↗ kubernetes/website
  9. [9] [zh-cn]sync pod-priority-preemption ↗ kubernetes/website
  10. [10] sig-scalability: add Bslabe123, jjk-g, lenadankin to inference-perf-maintainers ↗ kubernetes/org

$ ls kubernetes/reviews/ # the step-back reads

the week in review Kubernetes release v0.23.0 adds trixie kube-cross variant the month in review node-problem-detector 1.37.0 patches three CVEs
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Quick answers

What shipped in Kubernetes on August 18, 2026?
Kops is about to make etcd volume management on Akamai a first-class citizen, and the CI pipeline is getting smarter about SSH user discovery. In total, 44 commits and 28 pull requests landed.
Who contributed to Kubernetes on August 18, 2026?
13 developers shipped this update, including kubernetes-prow[bot], Mario Jason Braganza, Bslabe123, rifelpet, yussufsh, Patrick Ohly, vitorfloriano, and moshevayner, and 5 more.
What were the notable Kubernetes updates?
feat(akamai): manage etcd block storage volumes, Update default CNI plugins version to v1.7.1 / v1.8.0 / v1.9.1, and Update Cilium to v1.18.12.
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$ log @kubernetes --recent

Control plane cleanups: watchcache context prep, RecursiveReadOnlyMounts gate removed 90 shipped Consistent get backed out when etcd transforms are on 121 shipped Admission webhook metrics go beta; watch cache gets a minheap freshness waiter 103 shipped ML-DSA support for service account tokens 7 shipped

$ log --all # elsewhere on the wire

Agent Security Quiet day in agent security as guard coverage reaches four clients Alignment & Post-training verl defaults Ascend RL mode, open-instruct unblocks SFT packing

$ ls showcases/

Safety Evals AI Red Teaming Agent Security Interpretability Alignment & Post-training

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