The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) released Kubernetes 1.34, named "Of Wind & Will" (O’ WaW), last month. The release introduced features such as distributed resource allocation and production-grade tracing for the kubelet and API server. A key highlight in 1.34 is the introduction of enhanced in-cluster traffic routing, which provides network operators with the ability to express preferences on how traffic should be routed to service endpoints.