Issues

• Scheduling: DaemonSet overhead is dropped when its required node affinity has more than one term

  kind/bugneeds-priorityneeds-triage
  kubernetes-sigs/karpenter#3474 · Filter by author bknote71 opened on Oct 23, 2026
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• Scheduling: topology spread node filter drops compatibility options, so pods already on a NodeClaim aren't counted

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  kubernetes-sigs/karpenter#3472 · Filter by author sebpalmerio opened on Oct 22, 2026
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• Provisioning: pods that fail volume topology lookup are still scheduled, without their volume or affinity constraints

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  kubernetes-sigs/karpenter#3471 · Filter by author sebpalmerio opened on Oct 22, 2026
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• Scheduling: self-selecting zonal pod affinity can bootstrap two zones and split the pods

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  kubernetes-sigs/karpenter#3470 · Filter by author sebpalmerio opened on Oct 22, 2026
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• Scheduling: min-values-relaxed annotation is shared by every NodeClaim from the same NodePool

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  kubernetes-sigs/karpenter#3469 · Filter by author sebpalmerio opened on Oct 22, 2026
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• Reboot: a graceful reboot launches a replacement node for the pod it evicts

  kind/bugpriority/critical-urgenttriage/accepted
  kubernetes-sigs/karpenter#3464 · Filter by author sebpalmerio opened on Oct 22, 2026
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• Honor NodePool disruption budgets for spec.template.spec.expireAfter

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  kubernetes-sigs/karpenter#3449 · Filter by author nikhilmaheshwari24 opened on Oct 20, 2026
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• ec2nodeclass-hash annotation hashing issue

  area/provider/awskind/bugneeds-priorityneeds-triage
  kubernetes-sigs/karpenter#3432 · Filter by author bputt-e opened on Oct 15, 2026
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• NodePool with a name longer than 63 characters is reported Ready but can never launch NodeClaims

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  kubernetes-sigs/karpenter#3430 · Filter by author zamai opened on Oct 15, 2026
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• Make it easier for providers to add prediction sources for other pod autoscalers

  needs-prioritytriage/accepted
  kubernetes-sigs/karpenter#3429 · Filter by author AndrewSirenko opened on Oct 14, 2026
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• Scheduling: Exists intersected with NotIn drops the existence requirement

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  kubernetes-sigs/karpenter#3425 · Filter by author sebpalmerio opened on Oct 14, 2026
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• Scheduling: required node affinity terms are relaxed before preferred terms

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  kubernetes-sigs/karpenter#3424 · Filter by author sebpalmerio opened on Oct 14, 2026
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• Scheduling: contradictory requirements on one key collapse to DoesNotExist and launch a node the pod can't use

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  kubernetes-sigs/karpenter#3423 · Filter by author sebpalmerio opened on Oct 14, 2026
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• Provisioning: pods selecting the NodeClass label are ignored when the provider restricts its label domain

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  kubernetes-sigs/karpenter#3422 · Filter by author sebpalmerio opened on Oct 14, 2026
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• DRA: initialization gate counts a complete pool with zero devices as published

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  kubernetes-sigs/karpenter#3417 · Filter by author albertogalinari opened on Oct 13, 2026
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• Terminate-first drift and repair trigger when on-demand capacity is temporarily unavailable

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  kubernetes-sigs/karpenter#3415 · Filter by author GaneshBannur opened on Oct 12, 2026
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• Drift: include eviction-blocked pods in the scheduling simulation when terminationGracePeriod is set

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  kubernetes-sigs/karpenter#3414 · Filter by author sebpalmerio opened on Oct 12, 2026
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• Karpenter incorrectly calculates topology spread when relaxing required node affinity

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  kubernetes-sigs/karpenter#3401 · Filter by author javin-stripe opened on Oct 9, 2026
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• Needlessly retains nodes when having buffer pods

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  kubernetes-sigs/karpenter#3373 · Filter by author EndPositive opened on Oct 6, 2026
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• karpenter_cloudprovider_instance_type_offering_available should show staleness of data

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  kubernetes-sigs/karpenter#3369 · Filter by author garvinp-stripe opened on Oct 5, 2026
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• Perf: karpenter should cache unhealthy nodes to prevent re-evaluation on each loop

  kind/featureneeds-prioritytriage/accepted
  kubernetes-sigs/karpenter#3365 · Filter by author DerekFrank opened on Oct 2, 2026
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• Multi-node consolidation never emits ConsolidationRejected events when a command fails validation

  kind/bugneeds-prioritytriage/accepted
  kubernetes-sigs/karpenter#3350 · Filter by author cnmcavoy opened on Sep 28, 2026
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• Reboot: promote the disruption-to-reboot handoff to a first-class API

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  kubernetes-sigs/karpenter#3344 · Filter by author Sarthug99 opened on Sep 26, 2026
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• Allow pods to opt out of disruption rescheduling simulation

  kind/featureneeds-prioritytriage/accepted
  kubernetes-sigs/karpenter#3337 · Filter by author aviramha opened on Sep 22, 2026
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• TopologySpreadConstraints greedily selects invalid AZ

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  kubernetes-sigs/karpenter#3333 · Filter by author jeremysprofile opened on Sep 21, 2026
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