It’s release day! We discuss today’s Kubernetes 1.25 with release team lead Cici Huang, Software Engineer at Google Cloud. What’s in, what’s out, and what is it like to lead a release you are also promoting a feature in?

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Chatter of the week

• Nelson underwater
• England underwater
• A picture of a sheep
• Follow Craig on Twitter for more like that

News of the week

• Kubernetes 1.25 release
• Introducing Acorn
  • Acorn Labs: Rancher Co-Founders’ New Kubernetes Startup by Christine Hall
  • Episode 57, with Darren Shepherd
• GKE updates:
  • New observability metrics
  • GKE Autopilot now default
  • 256 pods per node
• KubeCon schedule published
  • Cloud Native Rejekts
• Scaling Kubernetes to thousands of CRDs by Nic Cope

Links from the interview

• IBM Watson
• Kubernetes Community Awards
• SIG API Machinery
  • Chair & Cici’s hiring manager: Fede Bongiovanni
• Kubernetes 1.25 release team
• Release blog
• Highlights:
  • PodSecurityPolicy is removed; Pod Security Admission is stable
  • cgroups v2
  • KMS v2alpha1
  • CRD valdation experession language
  • Registry change
• Kubernetes 1.24 delay
• Theme and logo
• Envelopes:
  • 1.24 lead: Episode 178, with James Laverack
  • 1.26 lead: Leonard Pahlke
• Cici Huang on GitHub