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Kubernetes 1.36: Deep dive into new alpha features
Kubernetes 1.36, set to launch April 22, introduces 20 new alpha features targeting AI/ML workloads, large-scale cluster management, and resource efficiency, including workload-aware preemption that treats groups of related pods as single units during scheduling, sharded API streams to reduce network overhead in massive clusters, and deeper Dynamic Resource Allocation integration that simplifies GPU and specialized hardware management. The release also brings node-level gRPC APIs to reduce API server load, native gang scheduling support in the Job controller, Prometheus Native Histograms integration, and the ability for the Horizontal Pod Autoscaler to scale applications down to zero replicas based on external metrics like queue length.
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