Hack The Garden 05/2026 Wrap Up

• 🗓️ Date: 04.05.2026 – 08.05.2026
• 📍 Location: Schlosshof Freizeitheim, Schelklingen
• 👤 Organizer: x-cellent
• 📘 Topics: hackathon#72
• 🎤 Review Meeting Summary: https://gardener.cloud/community/review-meetings/2026-reviews/#_2026-05-13-hack-the-garden-wrap-up

🌱 Complete the ManagedSeedSet Implementation (#52)

🔍 Improve Debugability of Failed Node Joins (#68)

🔒 Add Support for Virtual Garden to ACL Extension (#47)

🛡️ Replace OpenVPN with WireGuard (#70)

🌐 Make Internal Domain Optional/Mutable (#53)

🌿 [GEP-28] Experiment with shoot/shoot Controller in Self-Hosted Shoot Clusters (#45)

🔑 [GEP-28] Implement Public CA Bundle Discovery Mechanism (#15)

🐝 [GEP-28] SelfHostedShootExposure in Cilium Extension (#46)

🤝 [GEP-28] Support Joining Control Plane Nodes in Managed Infrastructure (#54)

⚙️ [GEP-28] Run Garden and Seed in Self-Hosted Shoot Cluster on Managed Infrastructure (#55)

👁️ Allow Admins to Easily Use a Viewer Kubeconfig by Default (#71)

📝 Stage confineSpecUpdateRollout Changes in Annotation (#64)

💾 GardenState Resource for Automated Garden Cluster Disaster Recovery (#44)

🔐 Separately Encrypt etcd Backups (#69)

⚡ Reduce Secret Watch Pressure by Splitting ManagedResource Data (#61)

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