Nina Polshakova is a software engineer at Solo.io, where she's worked on Istio and API Gateway projects. She's been part of the Kubernetes release team since v1.27 and is currently serving as the Release Lead for v1.33.

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News of the week

• 229 new things Google announced at Next 25

• MCO: Multi-Cluster Orchestrator

• Golden Kubestronaut

• Cloud Native Platform Engineering Associate

• The kube-scheduler-simulator

• K0s and k0smotron are now CNCF Sandbox projects

Links from the interview

• Nina Polshakova

• Kubernetes Deprecation Policy

• Kubernetes Dev Google Group

• solo.io

• Istio

• API Gateway (General concept, linking to K8s Gateway API)

• Kubernetes Release Team

• GitHub

• Istio revisions

• Working in Public by Nadia Eghbal (Link to publisher's site about the book)

• Kubernetes Maintainers Read Mean Comments (KubeCon EU 2024)

• Kubernetes 1.33 release blog (Link to release announcement blog)

• Kubernetes Enhancement Proposals (KEPs)

• Sidecar Containers

• Multiple Service CIDR support (KEP link)

• Dynamic Resource Allocation (DRA)

• DRA support for partitioned devices (KEP link)

• DRA device taints and tolerations (KEP link)

• DRA: Prioritized Alternatives in Device Requests (KEP link)

• Kubernetes 1.33 sneak peak (Link to pre-release highlights)

• EndpointSlices API

• Kubernetes Gateway API

• node.status.nodeInfo.kubeProxyVersion is a lie (issue)

• KEP-4004: Deprecate the kubeProxyVersion field of v1.Node #4005 (KEP link)

• Kubelet

• Removal: Host network support for Windows pods (KEP link)

• Containerd

• SIG Windows

• HostProcess Containers (Windows)

• Removal: KEP-5040: Disable git_repo volume driver (KEP link)

• User Namespaces (Beta, Enabled by Default)

• CRI-O

• Runc

• In-place Resource Resize for Pods (Link to the alpha announcement, but now beta)

• Vertical Pod Autoscaler (VPA)

• KEP-5080: Ordered Namespace Deletion

• PyTorch

• Linkerd

• Terry Pratchett's Discworld series

• Tiffany Aching series

• Guards! Guards!

• Going Postal

• Kubernetes Slack

• New Contributor Orientation