Celebrate the release of Kubernetes 1.21 with release team lead Nabarun Pal from VMware. Nabarun talks about choosing between “hardware” and software, additions and removals from Kubernetes 1.21, and how the Kubernetes project has become more welcoming to people outside the USA.
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Chatter of the week

Moscone Center vaccination site
Monday morning weather in London
Before and after haircut
World record barbering

News of the week

Kubernetes 1.21

CronJobs are GA
Local Storage features go Beta
Suspended Jobs in Alpha


kube-state-metrics v2.0
emissary-ingress joins the CNCF
Shell Operator v1 for Kubernetes operators
kubesploit, from CyberArk
CVE-2021-25735: Validating Admission Webhook does not observe some previous fields on Node objects
Kubegres
Minio adds Kubernetes operator and console
Scaling Kubernetes with assurance at Pinterest by Anson Qian
SUSE sponsors 300 scholarships in cloud native education
A reprieve for Apache Mesos

Links from the interview

Nabarun Pal
IIT Roorkee
Logo
ABU Robocon
Models and Robotics Section, IIT Roorkee
Rorodata/Algoshelf
PyCon India

Building microservices with Firefly at PyCon India 2017


Conference talks
Linux Users’ Group of Durgapur (DGPLUG) and FOSS training
Kubernetes Bangalore meetup
Nabarun’s journey in the Kubernetes release team
Applications for Kubernetes 1.21 release team are open
Episode 130 with Stephen Augustus
Kubernetes 1.21 release blog
Kubernetes Enhancement Proposals (KEPs)
1.21 release page
PodSecurityPolicy deprecation and KEP
Making sure features don’t languish in Beta
Volume health monitoring
Command metadata in kubectl headers
Tweet from @dims bribing people to test Release Candidate builds
Savitha Raghunathan is release lead for 1.21
Lewis Hamilton tied with Michael Schumacher
Mick Schumacher joins F1
Nabarun Pal on Twitter