Guest is Grace Nguyen. Kubernetes 1.28 release lead and student at the University of Waterloo. Grace had to juggle exams and community work to bring Kubernetes 1.28 to life. We will get to know grace and learn what work went into release, where the theme come from and what's special about it

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News of the week

• Docker Desktop 4.22 is live

• The CNCF announced the End User Technical Advisory Board

• The Go community released v1.21

• Configu raised a $3M pre-seed round

Links from the interview

• Grace Nguyen

• LinkedIn

• X

• Kubernetes SIG-Security

• Kubernetes 1.28 Planternetes

• API Awareness of SideCars

• Native SideCar containers in Istio

• pkgs.k8s.io: Kubernetes Community-Owned Package Repositories

• Expanding support skew between control plane and node components

• Non-Graceful node shutdown

• Pod replacement policy for Jobs (alpha)

• Match conditions for admission webhooks

• Feature graduations and deprecations in Kubernetes v1.28

• Kubernetes 1.28 webinar. Sept 6th 2023 9am PDT

• Kubernetes 1.29 PR to assemble team

• Kubernetes 1.29 shadow program is open

• Kubernetes 1.27 release lead Xander Grzywinski

Links from the post-interview chat

• Beta support for enabling swap space on Linux

• SideCars handling is the most popular issue on kubernetes tracker

• Reddit conversation about native SideCars

• Native SideCars explained