In Kubernetes v1.35, the ability to specify an external Job controller (through .spec.managedBy) graduates to General Availability.
This feature allows external controllers to take full responsibility for Job reconciliation, unlocking powerful scheduling patterns like multi-cluster dispatching with MultiKueue.
Why delegate Job reconciliation? The primary motivation for this feature is to support multi-cluster batch scheduling architectures, such as MultiKueue.
The MultiKueue architecture distinguishes between a Management Cluster and a pool of Worker Clusters:
