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