Kubernetes community k8s.gcr.io registry deprecation

[dmesser]

Hi all,

some of you may have heard this already, but the official image registry for the Kubernetes community is changing from k8s.gcr.io to registry.k8s.io, for background see here: https://kubernetes.io/blog/2022/11/28/registry-k8s-io-faster-cheaper-ga/

Starting next Monday redirects will happen automatically to registry.k8s.io. While this is designed to make the switch more transparent and give people more time to migrate, it might not be without impact to your build or execution environment. For more background, see here: https://kubernetes.io/blog/2023/03/10/image-registry-redirect/

👉 Call to action: if you are using images from k8s.gcr.io in any of your build dependencies or runtime dependencies, you should update the image references to registry.k8s.io as soon as possible.