Review Meeting 2026/10/14 - v1.153 Release

▬▬▬▬▬▬ 🪴 Demo Agenda 🪴 ▬▬▬▬▬▬ ► 00:00 Welcome and Introduction ► 01:09 🫆 HTTPS for Local Setup Registry (@shafeeqes) https://github.com/gardener/gardener/... ► 08:00 ⏱️ Improved virtual-garden-kube-apiserver Graceful Watch Termination (@jan-meis) https://github.com/gardener/gardener/... ► 16:00 📉 HA etcd Scale-In Support in etcd-druid (@seshachalam-yv) https://github.com/gardener/etcd-drui... ► 25:36 📊 Overhauled kube-apiserver Health Dashboard (@voelzmo) https://github.com/gardener/gardener/..., https://github.com/gardener/gardener/... ► 33:12 🧠 Significantly Improved Memory Footprint of gardener-admission-controller (@timuthy) https://github.com/gardener/gardener/... ► 41:26 Thank You and Good Bye ▬▬▬▬▬▬ 🪴 No Demo, But Still Worth Celebrating 🪴 ▬▬▬▬▬▬ ► ❗️ [OPERATOR] The CustomDNSServerInNodeLocalDNS feature gate has graduated to GA and cannot be disabled anymore. The feature gate can be dropped from gardenlet configurations. https://github.com/gardener/gardener/... ► ❗️ [OPERATOR] Promoted BackupEntryForGarden feature gate to GA. https://github.com/gardener/gardener/...