Kubernetes v1.33: Image Volumes graduate to beta!

Kubernetes v1.33: Image Volumes graduate to beta! What's new Further reading Image Volumes were introduced as an Alpha feature with the Kubernetes v1.31 release as part of KEP-4639. In Kubernetes v1.33, this feature graduates to beta. Please note that the feature is still disabled by default, because not all container runtimes have full support for it. CRI-O supports the initial feature since version v1.31 and will add support for Image Volumes as beta in v1.33. containerd merged support for the alpha feature which will be part of the v2.1.0 release and is working on beta support as part of PR #11578. The major change for the beta graduation of Image Volumes is the support for subPath and subPathExpr mounts for containers via spec. containers[*]. volumeMounts. [subPath,subPathExpr]. This allows end-users to mount a certain subdirectory of an image volume, which is still mounted as readonly ( noexec ). This means that non-existing subdirectories cannot be mounted by default. As for other subPath and subPathExpr values, Kubernetes will ensure that there are no absolute path or relative path components part of the specified sub path.