Kubernetes 1.16, with Lachlan Evenson

Sep 24, 2019

Kubernetes 1.16 is out, and our guest this week is its release manager, Lachlan Evenson. Lachie is a Principal Program Manager at Microsoft and an Australian living in the US; Craig and Adam are therefore method-interviewing, being this week in those two countries respectively.

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Chatter of the week

• New Zealand: man brings clown to redundancy meeting
• Cloud Summit Sydney and APIdays Melbourne

News of the week

• Kubernetes 1.16 is released
• Traefik 2.0
• Announcing .NET Core 3.0
  • gRPC on .NET Core
• GKE Container Native Load Balancing now GA
• Google makes €3 billion of data center investment
• CloudARK’s 5 takeaways from the Helm Summit
• Crossplane 0.3
• Agones 1.0.0
  • Episode 26 with Cyril Tovena and Mark Mandel
• Spire TPM plugin from Bloomberg
  • Episode 45 with Andrew Jessup
• Azure:
  • EKS now GA in Government regions
  • Egress lockdown now GA
  • AKS Periscope open source released
• Monitor your Google Anthos clusters with the Sumo Logic Istio app
• Google Cloud Build named a Leader for Continuous Integration in the Forrester Wave
• Banzai Cloud updates Logging Operator and Istio Operator
• The problem with Cloud Native by Quentin Hardy of Google Cloud
• Citrix integrates its ADC portfolio with Istio
• ContainerShip shuts down

Links from the interview

• Prison England
• Lithium Technologies
• Kubernetes 1.0 launch roster
• CrashLoopBackOff
• Helm Classic
• Deis acquired by Microsoft
  • Deis Labs
  • Episode 61, with Jeremy Rickard and Ralph Squillace
  • Phippy and Captain Kube
  • Childrens Illustrated Guide to Kubernetes
• 1.16 release blog
  • What Lachie is excited about:
    • Dual stack IPv4/IPv6
    • Endpoint slices
  • What he’s looking at in Alpha: Ephemeral containers
    • Distroless
• What slipped: Sidecar containers
• Breaking old APIs in Kubernetes 1.16
  • Deprecation policy
• 1.16 release team
• Emeritus Advisors
• KubeCon San Diego session on shadowing in releases
• Kubernetes 1.17: run by women
• Removing the Test-Infra release role
• Release notes from annotated PRs
• Community retrospective
• Release mascots:
  • 1.16 Release patch
  • 1.11
  • 1.14
• Olive Garden
  • When you’re here, you’re family
  • History of the breadstick
  • Cutting people off from unlimited breadsticks
• 2019 Steering Committee elections are happening
• Lachlan Evenson on Twitter