We are pleased to announce the availability of Slinky version 1.0.0-rc1.

Slinky is SchedMD’s set of components to integrate Slurm in Kubernetes environments. Slinky consists of two main projects, slurm-operator and slurm-bridge. Our landing page is here: https://www.slinky.ai

The slurm-operator handles cases where users wish to run Slurm jobs within the Kubernetes cluster.

Release v1.0.0-rc1:

https://github.com/SlinkyProject/slurm-operator/tree/release-1.0

New features include hybrid support, integration points for external tooling, and workload protection and isolation. The full changelog may be found here:

https://github.com/SlinkyProject/slurm-operator/blob/main/CHANGELOG/CHANGELO...

The slurm-bridge handles the cases where you want Slurm scheduling on your cluster and to be able to run either Kubernetes or Slurm jobs.

Release v1.0.0-rc1:

https://github.com/SlinkyProject/slurm-bridge/tree/release-1.0

New features include support for DRA Extended Resources, support for TaintToleration and VolumeBinding plugins, and integration of new Slurm 25.11 support for granular node resource allocation assignments with GRES.

The full changelog may be found here:

https://github.com/SlinkyProject/slurm-bridge/blob/main/CHANGELOG/CHANGELOG-...

The SlinkyProject registry now has containers that support both amd64 (x86_64) and arm64 (aarch64) architectures. You may find these here:

https://github.com/orgs/SlinkyProject/packages

-- Marlow Warnicke Principal Cloud Engineer, SchedMD LLC Commercial Slurm - and Slinky - Development and Support