Kubernetes 1.11, with Josh Berkus and Tim Pepper

A special extended episode going deep on the process of releasing Kubernetes, and this week's 1.11 release in particular. Hear from Josh Berkus from Red Hat and Tim Pepper from VMware, release manager and shadow release manager for Kubernetes 1.11, on how a release team is put together, the good and the bad of 1.11, and how Kubernetes is like a pastry oven.

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• web: kubernetespodcast.com
• mail: [email protected]
• twitter: @kubernetespod

News of the week

• Kubernetes 1.11 released
  • Google's summary of Kubernetes 1.11
• VMware Kubernetes Engine
• Google Cloud Filestore, for hosted NFS on GKE
  • Apply for early access
• The plan for Helm 3
• Consul Connect service mesh

Links from the interview

• SIG-Release
  • 1.11 Release Team
  • 1.12 Release Team
• Release calendar for 1.11
• Feature branches
• SIG-Scalability
  • Performance tests
  • CI Signal role
• Breaking changes in release notes
  • Priority and preemption enabled by default
  • JSON decoders should be case sensitive
• Bug triage lead
• Growing In Your Contributor Role from Tim at KubeCon EU
• Last Week in Kubernetes Development from Josh

Josh Berkus

• Twitter
• GitHub
• Blog
• Pottery & baking

Tim Pepper

• Twitter
• GitHub
• Portland Timbers and Portland Thorns