Kubernetes v1.36 Drops April 22: What Platform Engineers Actually Need to Know

TL;DR: Kubernetes v1.36 releases April 22, 2026. The headline features are DRA GPU partitioning, workload-aware preemption for AI/ML jobs, and the permanent removal of the gitRepo volume plugin. Ingress-nginx is also officially retired. If you run AI inference workloads or care about cluster securit