NOTE: You must use the @sha256 digest to guarantee an image built for this release, until such a time as we switch to a different tagging scheme. Even then we will highly encourage digest pinning for security and reproducibility reasons.

See also:

• https://kind.sigs.k8s.io/docs/user/quick-start/#creating-a-cluster
• https://kind.sigs.k8s.io/docs/user/quick-start/#building-images

NOTE: These node images support amd64 and arm64, both of our supported platforms. You must use the same platform as your host, for more context see https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/kind/issues/2718

Fixes

• Fixes containerd CVE-2025-47290 / GHSA-cm76-qm8v-3j95

Contributors

Committers for this release:

• @BenTheElder
• @k8s-ci-robot
• @stmcginnis

(Please see v0.28.0 https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/kind/releases/tag/v0.28.0#Contributors)