Kubernetes 1.14 is out! Your hosts talk to release manager Aaron Crickenberger of Google Cloud about the release process, working with Kubernetes Enhancement Proposals (KEPs), cat t-shirts, and being bearded on face vs. at heart.

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Chatter of the week

• MySpace “loses” 12 years of music
• Peel Forest and The Green Man Cafe
• Kubernetes Podcast from Google Cloud Next Live
• Eric Brewer
  • DockerCon 2014 keynote
• Sign up for free tickets to Google Cloud Next!

News of the week

• Kubernetes 1.14 released
• Maybe you don’t need Kubernetes? (Spoiler: you do.)
• Gravity 5.5 with Helm chart support
• How a cryptocurrency miner made its way onto Kubernetes clusters at JW Player
• A guide to Kubernetes admission controllers
• Automated testing for Helm charts with Terratest
• Kubernetes End-to-End Testing for Everyone
• To Russia with Love: deploying Kubernetes in foreign locations

Links from the interview

• Aaron Crickenberger
  • Co-founder of SIG Testing
  • Member of the Kubernetes steering committee
  • Blackhawk flight simulator but it’s in a container
  • Aaron’s soundcloud page
    • Hugh Pagdham
• Release lead
  • CI Signal playbook
  • 1.13 release shadow
  • Groundhog Day
• Aaron’s podcast recording cat t-shirt
• Episode 10, with Josh Berkus and Tim Pepper
• New in 1.14:
  • Kubernetes Enhancement Proposals (KEPs)
  • Code slush removed
  • Windows containers GA
  • Runtime gates GA
  • Pod priority and preemption GA
  • Durable local volumes GA
• LTS Working Group
• Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson: the suit and the beard
• Aaron Crickenberger on Twitter