3 May 2026
8 min. read
Kubernetes 1.36 went GA on April 22, 2026. Two changes are at the forefront: the final cgroup-v1 removal and the General Availability of Dynamic Resource Allocation (DRA). For enterprise ops teams, this means concrete to-dos in the next 60 days – before upstream support and security patches for older cluster versions expire. A migration checklist without theoretical overhead.
Key Takeaways
Step 1: Check Cluster Status (cgroup Version and containerd)
Before any upgrade, each node requires an inventory. Two checks, both executable remotely via kubectl:
cgroup Version per Node:
kubectl get nodes -o custom-
