Docs Freeze Exception Request for KEP-5729: DRA: ResourceClaim Support for Workloads

[Jon Huhn]

Hello,

I am requesting an exception for the docs freeze deadline for KEP-5729.

Enhancement name: DRA: ResourceClaim Support for Workloads

Enhancement status: alpha

SIG: Scheduling

k/enhancements repo issue #: 5729

PR #’s: https://github.com/kubernetes/website/pull/54596

Additional time needed: 3 days (11 April 2026)

Reason this enhancement is critical for this milestone:

Managing multi-host workloads is necessary for AI/ML. This feature builds on the workload aware scheduling to enabling lifecycle management of the related resources along with the PodGroup. It is important to understand how these resources will be managed and getting this to alpha state helps us iron out any gaps and additional requirements.

Risks from adding code late:

No code is being added late, only documentation. This feature depends on documentation for KEP-5832 which is also requesting an exception to the docs freeze deadline.

Risks from cutting enhancement:

This is a key feature for the future of workload-aware scheduling. This feature is needed to unblock experiments for critical advancements in large-scale AI/ML workload orchestration in Kubernetes.

Thanks,

Jon Huhn

[Ryota]

Hi Jon,

Thank you for filing the exception request. We can see the PR has been already merged as it only needed a rebase for resolving the merge conflict.

This has been acknowledged from and approved by the release team as well. 

There is no further action needed from your side.

Cheers,

Ryota Sawada

v1.36 Release Team Lead