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Kubernetes v1.37: KubeletInUserNamespace (aka Rootless mode) Graduates to Beta

Kubernetes v1.37 promotes the KubeletInUserNamespace feature gate to beta. With this feature enabled, all of the node components (kubelet, CRI and OCI runtimes, CNI plugins, and kube-proxy) can run as a non-root user on the host, using a Linux user namespace . This technique is also known as rootless mode . The work started as an experiment in 2018, and was merged into Kubernetes v1.22 (2021) as an alpha feature…

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