Lots happening in the Gardener project! 🌱 This week: HTTPS for local registry 🫆, improved graceful watch termination ⏱️, HA etcd scale-in support 📉, an overhauled kube-apiserver health dashboard 📊, and a leaner admission-controller 🧠 🎥 Watch now: youtu.be/RTE_II5aTIk

🎥 TSC meeting recording is live! GEP-0078 tackles homogeneous version profiles for extension-managed components — a big step toward consistency across your Gardener clusters. Catch up on the Oct 1 discussion: 🎥 Watch now: youtu.be/dOjf5fjmYts

Lots happening in the Gardener project! 🌱 Shoot maintenance reconciliation now handles failed-state shoots with healthy conditions 🔄, and the local gardenadm dev setup gets a GinK upgrade 🛠️ 🎥 Watch now: youtu.be/IC4JdT2u3ek

Packed agenda this week 🌱 kube-api-linter lands as a golangci-lint plugin 🕵️‍♂️, the Gardener Dashboard gets a fresh update 🕹, and gardener.clusterTypes Helm values simplify extension installation 📡 🎥 Watch now: youtu.be/IattXdELxSc

Lots happening in the Gardener project! 🌱 This week: 🔔 ManagedResourcesHonored constraint status, 🚪 a new Envoy Gateway extension for Shoots, 📌 pinning Shoot control planes to AZs & 🎮 reducing controller load on ETCD restart. 🎥 Watch now: youtu.be/jUgYGYulHwY

🌱 TSC meeting recording from 2026/08/27 is live! GEP-0066 tackles making Shoot domains mutable — a game-changer for flexible DNS management in Gardener. 🎥 Watch now: youtu.be/V311qD0OfMQ

Fresh from the community: this week's demos cover ☁️ better BYO infrastructure support for AWS and 🔐 custom registry CA bundle support — plus bug fixes and feature gate promotions worth knowing about! 🎥 Watch now: youtu.be/Y9sqwVqV2Es

Fresh from the community: demos cover 📡 `sd_notify` for OTel Collector, 🛡️ global observability secret rotation, 🔖 multiple `volumePolicies` in `pvc-autoscaler`, 🔑 self-hosted Shoots on OpenStack & ⏱️ jittered `containerd` logrotate! 🎥 Watch now: youtu.be/X07luCqDtno

🌱 TSC meeting recording is here! GEP-0063 explores the Diki extension — leveling up security validation in your Gardener clusters. Cloud-native folks, this one's for you. 🎥 Watch now: youtu.be/qhvhVDORBQQ

Our latest special edition review for Kubernetes v1.36 is here! 🎓 GA graduations, 🌸 alpha→beta promotions, 🗞️ brand-new alpha features, 🧼 security & deprecations, plus 🪴 what's changing in Gardener itself. 🎥 Watch now: youtu.be/CvJHvJlWFJ4

TSC meeting recording is live! GEP-0068 explores Gateway API extensions for Gardener Shoot Clusters — a big step for cloud-native networking. Catch up on the discussion from 2026/07/23. 🎥 Watch now: youtu.be/6_97bb_C8gI

Lots happening in the Gardener project! 🛡️ Machine preservation on failure, daily ETCD defrag scheduling 🗄️, `diki` config merge/validate commands 🔒, `gardenadm discover` split into subcommands 🔍, and resource references in Extensions 📎 🎥 Watch now: youtu.be/Xs5TbQjLBKY

🌱 TSC meeting recording is live! GEP-0043 dives into Spegel registry support in the registry-cache extension — peer-to-peer image distribution for your Gardener clusters. Catch the full discussion from 2026/07/16. 🎥 Watch now: youtu.be/pB0TX6pd5hA

Fresh from the community: the 🐶 VPN Watchdog keeps tunnels healthy, Calico gets 🔀 NFTables mode support, a new 🔍 Shoot constraint lands, and the 🏗️ Gardener Landscape Kit makes its debut! 🎥 Watch now: youtu.be/b82zsHo-PIc

Packed agenda this week 🌱 PVC autoscaler lands as a Seed component 💾, Falco gets advanced config options 🦅, Alicloud gains dual-stack & custom routes ☁️, DNS service migrates to next-gen 🌍, plus a handy gardenlet re-bootstrap helper 🔑 🎥 Watch now: youtu.be/sxIoblNMKA4

Packed agenda this week 🌱 Mutable 🔓 encryption config, containerd v4 📦, VPC MTU jumbo frame support ⚡, configurable network probes 🧪, PVC autoscaling 📀, advanced AWS worker options, and Envoy edge proxy best practices 🌐 — all covered! 🎥 Watch now: youtu.be/iX9tPbZOuPk

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. 🎥 youtu.be/fpbPv63uHRo

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

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: youtu.be/FkRxbM375So

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: youtu.be/xUINvwIt9Kk