GKE

Google says the three projects are in CNCF Sandbox onboarding and Agent Substrate 1.0 is GA on GKE; it says neutral governance opens a path to upstream gVisor kernel patches, while LWN's 2022 report on one proposal records technical objections.

Sources on Kubernetes 1.37, EKS and GKE show retirement timelines for kube-proxy's IPVS mode and kube-dns packages, control-plane rollback on EKS and GKE, and EKS extended support at $0.60 per cluster-hour versus $0.10.

Google's GKE release notes say the microVM sandbox type, built on Kata Containers and Cloud Hypervisor, became generally available October 7; Google's docs list nested virtualization as a requirement.

A Kubernetes Blog post reports that Local SSD-backed node swap raised pod density by 25% to 200% in tests of sandboxed browsers and Python runtimes, while project docs warn of noisy-neighbor risks.

Google Cloud now accepts OTLP-format metrics in Cloud Monitoring and offers a fully managed OpenTelemetry Collector pipeline for GKE, joining a broader industry shift toward vendor-neutral observability driven by open standards.