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

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

Kubernetes 1.18, with Jorge Alarcon

Kubernetes Podcast from Google