The Kubernetes 1.28 release interview

I have been chronicling Kubernetes releases through podcast interviews with release managers since the old show launched in 2018. The last two were done in writing, but it’s my pleasure to return to your ears with this exclusive community conversation with Kubernetes 1.28 release team lead Grace Nguyen.

Links from the interview

• Kitchener and Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

  • University of Waterloo

  • Eby Farmstead petting zoo

  • Oktoberfest

  • Kitchener Ribfest

  • Waterloo Ribfest

• UW Cybersecurity Club

• LAN parties¹

• Co-ops

• Grace’s experience with Kubernetes at Riskfuel

• KubeCon 2021 talk: Beyond Kubernetes Security, by Tabitha Sable and Ellen Körbes

• Kubernetes Release Managers

• Kubernetes 1.28

  • Release blog and changelog

  • Sidecar container support

    • A Kubernetes Blog mention in 2015, by Brendan Burns

    • September 2019 conversation with release team lead Lachie Evenson, in which he kindly apologises for the first version of this feature slipping

  • kubectl events

  • Non-graceful node shutdown support

  • DNS search path

  • kubectl delete interactive

  • Publishing releases on community infrastructure

• “Planternetes”

• 1.27 interview with Xander Grzywinski

• The 1.29 release team (still being planted)

• KubeCon release lead shadowing

• Grace’s KubeCon Detroit trip report

• Grace, on:

  • Twitter²

  • GitHub

  • Her website

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1. Oh, the footnotes I could include here. #okboomer

2. One does not call it 𝕏 until the URL does.