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Blog: Announcing the Checkpoint/Restore Working Group
Blog: Announcing the Checkpoint/Restore Working Group
https://www.kubernetes.dev/blog/2026/01/21/introducing-checkpoint-restore-wg/
The community around Kubernetes includes a number of Special Interest Groups (SIGs) and Working Groups (WGs) facilitating discussions on important topics between interested contributors. Today we would like to announce the new Kubernetes Checkpoint Restore WG focusing on the integration of Checkpoint/Restore functionality into Kubernetes.
Motivation and use cases
There are several high-level scenarios discussed in the working group:
Optimizing resource utilization for interactive workloads, such as Jupyter notebooks and AI chatbots
Accelerating startup of applications with long initialization times, including Java applications and LLM inference services
Using periodic checkpointing to enable fault-tolerance for long-running workloads, such as distributed model training
Providing interruption-aware scheduling with transparent checkpoint/restore, allowing lower-priority Pods to be preempted while preserving the runtime state of applications
Facilitating Pod migration across nodes for load balancing and maintenance, without disrupting workloads.
Enabling forensic checkpointing to investigate and analyze security incidents such as cyberattacks, data breaches, and unauthorized access.
Across these scenarios, the goal is to help facilitate discussions of ideas between the Kubernetes community and the growing Checkpoint/Restore in Userspace (CRIU) ecosystem. The CRIU community includes several projects that support these use cases, including:
CRIU - A tool for checkpointing and restoring running applications and containers
checkpointctl - A tool for in-depth analysis of container checkpoints
criu-coordinator - A tool for coordinated checkpoint/restore of distributed applications with CRIU
checkpoint-restore-operator - A Kubernetes operator for managing checkpoints
More information about the checkpoint/restore integration with Kubernetes is also available here.
Related events
Following our presentation about transparent checkpointing at KubeCon EU 2025, we are excited to welcome you to our panel discussion and AI + ML session at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026.
Connect with us
If you are interested in contributing to Kubernetes or CRIU, there are several ways to participate:
Join our meeting every second Thursday at 17:00 UTC via the Zoom link in our meeting notes; recordings of our prior meetings are available here.
Chat with us on the Kubernetes Slack: #wg-checkpoint-restore
Email us at the wg-checkpoint-restore mailing list
via Kubernetes Contributors – Contributor Blog https://www.kubernetes.dev/blog/
January 20, 2026 at 07:00PM
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Bring Back Ops Pride
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Kubernetes is in orbit
Kubernetes is now moving at 28,000 km/h. Literally.
Did you know that the "cloud" has officially expanded beyond our atmosphere?
The space company D-Orbit has actually launched Kubernetes clusters into orbit on their ION Satellite Carrier. While most satellites run on rigid, unchangeable legacy code, D-Orbit is bringing Cloud Native agility to the final frontier.
No more flashing firmware: Need a new AI model to detect forest fires or track climate change? Don't rewrite the satellite's OS; just push a new Docker container.
Self-Healing in Orbit: The thought of 'pod evictions' and 'load balancing' happening while hardware streaks across the troposphere is mind-blowing.
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