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Istio 1.29, Kubernetes v1.37, and Proxmox for VMs
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Support for Istio 1.29 ends on the 12th of October, 2026
According to Istio’s support policy, minor releases like 1.29 are supported until six weeks after the N+2 minor release (1.31 in this case). Istio 1.31 was released on the 31st of August, 2026, and support for 1.29 will end on the 12th of October, 2026.
At that point we will stop back-porting fixes for security issues and critical bugs to 1.29, so we encourage you to upgrade to the latest version of Istio (1.31). If you don’t do this you may put yourself in the position of having to do a major upgrade on a short timeframe to pick up a critical fix.
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Kubernetes Blog ☛ Kubernetes v1.37: Introducing Node Lifecycle Conditions
Kubernetes has many ways to describe what is happening on a Node. Readiness, taints, Pod state, labels, annotations, and provider-specific Hey Hi (AI) each expose part of the picture. What has been missing is a shared, Kubernetes-owned way to say that a Node is draining, undergoing maintenance, or undergoing Graceful Node Shutdown.
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Make Use Of ☛ I ran Proxmox for a week, and it changed how I use my server PC
Making your very first home server can be a bit of a process, but it’s something that (should hopefully) pay off in the long run. It also makes for a rather fun project. After building a budget AM4-based home server, it was finally time to settle on an operating system.
Since this was primarily going to be used as a homelab, I decided to try out one of the many popular choices out there — Proxmox. Proxmox also happens to be very good at virtualization, which is something I wanted to try out as well.