Kubernetes 1.18, with Jorge Alarcon

Kubernetes 1.18 is out - almost! A bug has pushed it back a day. While you're waiting, release team lead Jorge Alarcon will tell you all about the fit and finish you can expect in the release when it's out tomorrow. Adam and Craig bring you the other community news of the week, as well as some podcast follow-up.

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Chatter of the week

• Shoe Dog
• What the fox really says

News of the week

• Kubernetes 1.18 is out!
  • Well, not quite yet: this regression is being fixed
  • Enhancement tracker
  • Windows features:
    • containerd
    • kubeadm
    • RuntimeClass
    • GMSA
  • Ingress API
  • kubectl diff and APIServer dry-run
  • kubectl debug
• CNCF SIG Contributor Strategy
• Kong ingress controller and Istio service mesh by Kevin Chen
• KubeCF becomes a Cloud Foundry Foundation incubation project
• Platform9 adds two new tiers
  • And adds free JFrog Private Container Registry
• Backyards 1.2
• Red Hat adds support for installing OpenShift on top of RHV
• Google Cloud Game Servers
• Kubei, a new open source runtime vulnerabilty scanner by Portshift
• Azure Container Registry adds customer managed keys
• AKS adds Ubuntu 18.04
• Kubernetes security announcements
  • CVE-2020-8551 - kublet
  • CVE-2020-8552 - API server
• Using Inspektor Gadget to add network policies
• okteto push
• D2iQ changes CEOs
• Spectro Cloud comes out of stealth

Links from the interview

• Kubernetes 1.18 release blog
  • 1.18.0 announcement e-mail
• Computational biology and folding proteins
• Data for Democracy
• Kubernetes Up and Running by Joe Beda, Kelsey Hightower, and "the other guy"
• The Kubernetes Slack
• Searchable.ai
  • A bit about them
  • Home slice
• Episode 72, with Lachlan Evenson
  • Emeritus Adviser
  • Release logo
• Sidecar containers
  • Tim Hockin's thoughts on Sidecar Containers not making 1.18
• 1.19 release lead: Taylor Dolezal
• Jorge on Twitter and alejandrox1 on the Kubernetes Slack