{"id":"kubernetes-58cd2f8e771e","seq":2505,"kind":"release","title":"Kubernetes v1.37: KubeletInUserNamespace (aka Rootless mode) Graduates to Beta","url":"https://kubernetes.io/blog/2026/09/04/kubernetes-v1-37-rootless-beta/","permalink":"https://vulnpulse.app/items/kubernetes-58cd2f8e771e","summary":"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 (Kubernetes Enhancement Proposal KEP-2033 ). This feature should not be confused with user namespaces for pods ( hostUsers: false with the UserNamespacesSupport feature gate, GA since…","severity":null,"techs":["kubernetes"],"cves":[],"tags":[],"source":{"id":"kubernetes","name":"Kubernetes Blog"},"published_at":"2026-09-04T18:30:00.000Z","fetched_at":"2026-10-21T16:17:46.867Z"}