Kubernetes v1.36 Promotes Stability, Compatibility & Reproducibility

kubernetes v1.36 ships 71 enhancements across stable, beta, and alpha tiers. Key highlights include: fine-grained kubelet API authorization reaching GA for least-privilege node security; Resource Health Status expanding to Dynamic Resource allocation (DRA) for hardware health reporting; new alpha workload-aware scheduling (WAS) with gang scheduling and topology-aware policies to reduce reliance on third-party schedulers for AI/ML workloads; Volume Group snapshots graduating to GA for crash-consistent multi-volume backups; CSI service account token secret redaction reaching stable to prevent token leakage; and external service account token signing graduating to stable for integration with external key management systems.