Kubernetes 1.24, with James Laverack

May 4, 2022

Gaze into the stars with Kubernetes 1.24 release team lead, James Laverack. James is a software engineer turned solutions engineer at Jetstack, and explains the difference between the two roles, as well as how he found his home in SIG Release and what to expect in 1.24.

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Chatter of the week

• IMDB and MusicBrainz
• SheetOps
• xlskubectl by Daniele Polencic

News of the week

• Kubernetes 1.24
• Metaflow on Kubernetes
• KubeVela 1.3
• SocketCAN X Kubernetes
• ARMO raises $30m
• Aqua’s 2022 Cloud Native Threat Report
• CVE-2021-25746 in ingress-nginx
  • About the fix
  • Episode 162, with Alejandro de Brito Fontes and Ricardo Katz
• Plain Kubernetes Secrets are fine, by Mac Chaffee

Links from the interview

• Bristol
• Box
• Life as a Solutions Engineer at Jetstack
  • “I don’t think your job is to code anymore, you just talk to people all day.”
• Minecraft operator
• Improbable’s etcd operator
• Intro to the Kubernetes 1.24 release process
• Kubernetes 1.24
  • Full release notes
  • Dockershim is, like, proper gone
    • cri-dockerd
    • containerd
    • CRI-O
  • Beta APIs Off by Default
  • Release artifacts are signed, with experimental support for verifying them
    • Increased supply chain security for Kubernetes
    • SLSA
    • Episode 167, with Rey Lejano
    • Episode 174, with Santiago Torres-Arias
  • Storage Capacity tracking and Volume Expansion
  • Storage plugin migration
    • Azure Disk
    • OpenStack Cinder
  • gRPC liveness and readiness probes
  • Avoiding collisions in IP ranges
• Release theme and logo
• 1.25 release team
• Go 1.18 error delays 1.24 release
• James Laverack on Twitter