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

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:
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

Kubernetes 1.16, with Lachlan Evenson

Kubernetes Podcast from Google