Kubernetes v1.34 Sneak Peek: Security, Tracing, and YAML That Finally Behaves

Kubernetes v1.34 is coming in late August 2025, and this release is all about polish and power-ups. No removals. No deprecations. Just features you’ll actually want to use. Here are my personal favorites from the sneak peek. ServiceAccount Tokens for Image Pulls Long-lived image pull secrets have been the awkward relic of Kubernetes security for years. Now, v1.34 promotes (beta, enabled by default) a new approach: the kubelet uses short-lived, auto-rotated ServiceAccount tokens per Pod to authenticate with registries.
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How to Install MinIO on Linux: Your Private S3-Compatible Object Storage

Spoiler alert: You don’t have to sell your soul to AWS to get an S3 bucket. Espcially if you want to practice ETCD backups to S3 in your homelab MinIO is a lightweight, blazing-fast object storage server that speaks S3 API fluently. Perfect for backing up your cat photos or running serious enterprise workloads. Let’s get it installed on Linux. 🚀 Prerequisites A Linux server (Ubuntu, CentOS, Rocky, Debian…pick your flavor) curl installed systemd (unless you like living dangerously) 🛠️ Step 1: Create a MinIO User Let’s avoid running everything as root (because root is overworked and grumpy).
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