Kubidrops: Kubernetes 1.34 in practice

We published a straight-to-the-point Kubidrops episode about what Kubernetes 1.34 brings to those who operate production.

The proposal is simple: organize what actually changes in your daily life regarding platform, cluster, Kubernetes, and security!

You will find in the video

• DRA: adminAccess and kubelet reporting (Beta)

• Jobs: podReplacementPolicy (Stable)

• Native types: declarative validation via CEL (Beta)

• Storage: VolumeAttributesClass (modify volume) (Stable)

• AuthZ by selectors (field/label) (Stable)

• DNS: more flexible validation for search (Stable)

• Windows kube-proxy: DSR (Stable)

• Lifecycle: Sleep action (Stable)

• Node: swap support on Linux (Stable)

• ServiceAccount tokens: external signing (Beta)

• MutatingAdmissionPolicies (Beta)

• Streaming Informers / WatchList (Beta)

• In-place Pod Resize: improvements (Beta)

• Pods: X.509 certificates for mTLS (Alpha)

• DRA (Alpha): health status and improvements

Reference links

• Official release post: https://kubernetes.io/blog/2025/08/27/kubernetes-v1-34-release/

• CEL Playground for policies: https://playcel.undistro.io

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