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.

Don’t you think it’s about time you said hello?

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

Tim Pepper

Why Does The Trinity Matter?