It’s release day! We discuss today’s Kubernetes 1.25 with release team lead Cici Huang, Software Engineer at Google Cloud. What’s in, what’s out, and what is it like to lead a release you are also promoting a feature in?
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Chatter of the week

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England underwater
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News of the week

Kubernetes 1.25 release
Introducing Acorn

Acorn Labs: Rancher Co-Founders’ New Kubernetes Startup by Christine Hall
Episode 57, with Darren Shepherd


GKE updates:

New observability metrics
GKE Autopilot now default
256 pods per node


KubeCon schedule published

Cloud Native Rejekts


Scaling Kubernetes to thousands of CRDs by Nic Cope

Links from the interview

IBM Watson
Kubernetes Community Awards
SIG API Machinery

Chair & Cici’s hiring manager: Fede Bongiovanni


Kubernetes 1.25 release team
Release blog
Highlights:

PodSecurityPolicy is removed; Pod Security Admission is stable
cgroups v2
KMS v2alpha1
CRD valdation experession language
Registry change


Kubernetes 1.24 delay
Theme and logo
Envelopes:

1.24 lead: Episode 178, with James Laverack
1.26 lead: Leonard Pahlke


Cici Huang on GitHub