Celebrate the release of Kubernetes 1.21 with release team lead Nabarun Pal from VMware. Nabarun talks about choosing between “hardware” and software, additions and removals from Kubernetes 1.21, and how the Kubernetes project has become more welcoming to people outside the USA.

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Chatter of the week

• Moscone Center vaccination site
• Monday morning weather in London
• Before and after haircut
• World record barbering

News of the week

• Kubernetes 1.21
  • CronJobs are GA
  • Local Storage features go Beta
  • Suspended Jobs in Alpha
• kube-state-metrics v2.0
• emissary-ingress joins the CNCF
• Shell Operator v1 for Kubernetes operators
• kubesploit, from CyberArk
• CVE-2021-25735: Validating Admission Webhook does not observe some previous fields on Node objects
• Kubegres
• Minio adds Kubernetes operator and console
• Scaling Kubernetes with assurance at Pinterest by Anson Qian
• SUSE sponsors 300 scholarships in cloud native education
• A reprieve for Apache Mesos

Links from the interview

• Nabarun Pal
• IIT Roorkee
• Logo
• ABU Robocon
• Models and Robotics Section, IIT Roorkee
• Rorodata/Algoshelf
• PyCon India
  • Building microservices with Firefly at PyCon India 2017
• Conference talks
• Linux Users’ Group of Durgapur (DGPLUG) and FOSS training
• Kubernetes Bangalore meetup
• Nabarun’s journey in the Kubernetes release team
• Applications for Kubernetes 1.21 release team are open
• Episode 130 with Stephen Augustus
• Kubernetes 1.21 release blog
• Kubernetes Enhancement Proposals (KEPs)
• 1.21 release page
• PodSecurityPolicy deprecation and KEP
• Making sure features don’t languish in Beta
• Volume health monitoring
• Command metadata in kubectl headers
• Tweet from @dims bribing people to test Release Candidate builds
• Savitha Raghunathan is release lead for 1.21
• Lewis Hamilton tied with Michael Schumacher
• Mick Schumacher joins F1
• Nabarun Pal on Twitter