Kubernetes version 1.33, codenamed "Octarine," has arrived, bringing a wave of significant enhancements and long-awaited features to the cloud-native ecosystem. Named after the magical color in Terry Pratchett's Discworld series, this release reflects the collaborative magic the Kubernetes community conjures. With 64 enhancements, it's a larger release than its predecessors, packed with features graduating to stable, moving into beta, and entering alpha. We sat down with Nina Polshakova, Kubernetes maintainer and the Release Lead for 1.33 and a contributor to projects like Istio and KServe, to get an insider's look at what makes this release special. Stable Standouts: Sidecars and [...]The post Kubernetes 1.33: Native Sidecars are here, plus Big Security Boost with User Namespaces first appeared on TFiR.