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SystemdWatchdog gate retired as minikube's CI learns to survive capacity pressure
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Kubernetes dropped the GA SystemdWatchdog feature gate in its first eligible release, while minikube and kops reworked the infrastructure assumptions their pipelines and clusters were quietly resting on.
pkg/features: remove GA feature gate SystemdWatchdog kubernetes/kubernetes
The gate graduated to GA and was locked to default in 1.35, and under the three-release emulation window (minRemovalVer = specVer.AddMinor(3)) 1.38 is the first release where it could be dropped. The kubelet's systemd watchdog integration stays unconditional when the host supports it, and the author reports no code references remain outside the gate's registration, so any manifest still setting...
prow: Retry VM creation across machine types and zones kubernetes/minikube
TestISOImage ran under a single 22-minute deadline that expired while still waiting for a core, so the parallel checks failed before doing any work; each subtest now carries its own timeout sized from its typical duration, and timeouts start after t.Parallel returns. Boskos VM creation also retries across machine types and zones, because none prefers e2-standard-4 and does not enable nested vir...
don't enable aws lb controller by default kubernetes/kops
kops no longer enables the AWS load balancer controller by default in clusters configured with scale, a change the author frames as fixing a broken job. If you relied on the default to get the controller installed, provision it explicitly.
openstack: Increase timeout for instances kubernetes/kops
deleteInstanceWithID re-sent DELETE /servers/{id} on the shared deleteBackoff (1s, factor 5, 4 steps), giving up after roughly 31 seconds, which servers booted from a volume can exceed because Nova has to detach and delete the boot volume first. The OpenStack timeout for instances is now longer to cover that path.
[es] localize learning-environment to Spanish kubernetes/website
The docs long tail: the learning-environment setup page now exists in Spanish under content/es, and the SubjectAccessReview API reference links on the website were corrected to point at the right pages.
Action items
- → Remove SystemdWatchdog from your feature gate config before upgrading to 1.38 kubernetes/kubernetes [plan]
- → Enable the AWS LB controller explicitly in kops clusters with scale if you depended on the default kubernetes/kops [plan]
