Kubernetes 1.18 is out - almost! A bug has pushed it back a day. While you’re waiting, release team lead Jorge Alarcon will tell you all about the fit and finish you can expect in the release when it’s out tomorrow. Adam and Craig bring you the other community news of the week, as well as some podcast follow-up.
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Chatter of the week

Shoe Dog
What the fox really says

News of the week

Kubernetes 1.18 is out!

Well, not quite yet: this regression is being fixed
Enhancement tracker
Windows features:

containerd
kubeadm
RuntimeClass
GMSA


Ingress API
kubectl diff and APIServer dry-run
kubectl debug


CNCF SIG Contributor Strategy
Kong ingress controller and Istio service mesh by Kevin Chen
KubeCF becomes a Cloud Foundry Foundation incubation project
Platform9 adds two new tiers

And adds free JFrog Private Container Registry


Backyards 1.2
Red Hat adds support for installing OpenShift on top of RHV
Google Cloud Game Servers
Kubei, a new open source runtime vulnerabilty scanner by Portshift
Azure Container Registry adds customer managed keys
AKS adds Ubuntu 18.04
Kubernetes security announcements

CVE-2020-8551 - kublet
CVE-2020-8552 - API server


Using Inspektor Gadget to add network policies
okteto push
D2iQ changes CEOs
Spectro Cloud comes out of stealth

Links from the interview

Kubernetes 1.18 release blog

1.18.0 announcement e-mail


Computational biology and folding proteins
Data for Democracy
Kubernetes Up and Running by Joe Beda, Kelsey Hightower, and “the other guy”
The Kubernetes Slack
Searchable.ai

A bit about them
Home slice


Episode 72, with Lachlan Evenson

Emeritus Adviser
Release logo


Sidecar containers

Tim Hockin’s thoughts on Sidecar Containers not making 1.18


1.19 release lead: Taylor Dolezal
Jorge on Twitter and alejandrox1 on the Kubernetes Slack