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title: "SKS: Kubernetes 1.35 Now Available"
date: 2025-12-29
tags: ["New","SKS"]
url: https://changelog.exoscale.com/sks-kubernetes-135-now-available/
---
# SKS: Kubernetes 1.35 Now Available

<p class="">We’re happy to announce that <b>Kubernetes 1.35</b> is now available on Exoscale SKS.</p>
  <p class="">Just a few days after the upstream release, the Timbernetes (The World Tree Release) was rolled out on Exoscale on <b>December 22, 2025</b>.</p>
  <p class="">Kubernetes 1.35 brings improvements to resource management and node requirements and continues the cleanup of legacy components, helping keep Kubernetes clusters efficient and future-ready.</p>
  <p class=""><img height="546" width="1139" src="sks-kubernetes-135-now-available-image-01.png" loading="lazy"></p>
  <h3><b>Key benefits</b></h3>
  <ul>
   <li><b style="color: rgb(66, 66, 66); white-space-collapse: preserve;">Improved workload availability: </b>With Kubernetes 1.35, workloads can be vertically scaled without restarts, improving availability and resource efficiency.</li>
   <li><b style="color: rgb(66, 66, 66);">Simpler model distribution for AI workloads: </b>OCI images can now be mounted as read-only volumes, making it easier to ship and run models without additional storage layers.</li>
  </ul>
  <p class=""><b>Upgrade notes</b></p>
  <ul>
   <li><span style="color: rgb(66, 66, 66); white-space-collapse: preserve;">Existing SKS clusters are not upgraded automatically.</span></li>
   <li><span style="color: rgb(66, 66, 66); white-space-collapse: preserve;">We recommend testing upgrades in a non-production environment before upgrading production clusters.</span></li>
   <li><span style="color: rgb(66, 66, 66); white-space-collapse: preserve;">You can upgrade your clusters using the Exoscale Portal, CLI, or API.</span></li>
  </ul>

[SKS upgrade and lifecycle management](https://community.exoscale.com/product/compute/containers/operation/lifecycle-management/)