We’re back, with another great interview telling the story of a Kubernetes release. We celebrate today’s launch of Kubernetes 1.29 “Mandala” with this exclusive community conversation with release team lead Priyanka Saggu.

Links from the interview

* Priyanka Saggu

* SUSE

* OpenSUSE Tumbleweed

* SUSE Enterprise Linux

* Rancher

* zypper

* Education in India

* Class 10 and Class 12 exams

* JEE Main and JEE Advanced

* Nabarun Pal interview

* Linux Users’ Group of Durgapur (DGPLUG)

* Outreachy

* GNOME Foundation

* GNOME Translation Editor (Gtranslator)

* GNOME 3 criticism

* Tim Hockin is not happy

* Meet Our Contributors (APAC)

* SIG ContribEx

* Kubernetes 1.29

* Release team

* Removing in-tree cloud provider code

* KMS v2 improvements

* Kubelet resource metrics endpoint

* nftables kube-proxy backend

* In-place update of Pod resources

* Sidecar Containers

* Go CVE delays release

* KubeCon NA

* Journey Through Time: Understanding Etcd Revisions and Resource Versions in Kubernetes

* Inflections and Reflections from Kubernetes SIG ContribEx on Community Growth & Sustainability

* Kubernetes Contributor Awards

* 1.28 interview with Grace Nguyen

* VMware talent on the market

* Legacy Kubernetes repository deprecation

* Kubernetes Slack: look for psaggu or join #sig-release to see how you can help!

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I have been chronicling Kubernetes releases through podcast interviews with release managers since the old show launched in 2018. The last two were done in writing, but it’s my pleasure to return to your ears with this exclusive community conversation with Kubernetes 1.28 release team lead Grace Nguyen.

Links from the interview

* Kitchener and Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

* University of Waterloo

* Eby Farmstead petting zoo

* Oktoberfest

* Kitchener Ribfest

* Waterloo Ribfest

* UW Cybersecurity Club

* LAN parties

* Co-ops

* Grace’s experience with Kubernetes at Riskfuel

* KubeCon 2021 talk: Beyond Kubernetes Security, by Tabitha Sable and Ellen Körbes

* Kubernetes Release Managers

* Kubernetes 1.28

* Release blog and changelog

* Sidecar container support

* A Kubernetes Blog mention in 2015, by Brendan Burns

* September 2019 conversation with release team lead Lachie Evenson, in which he kindly apologises for the first version of this feature slipping

* kubectl events

* Non-graceful node shutdown support

* DNS search path

* kubectl delete interactive

* Publishing releases on community infrastructure

* “Planternetes”

* 1.27 interview with Xander Grzywinski

* KubeCon release lead shadowing

* Grace’s KubeCon Detroit trip report

* Grace, on:

* Twitter

* GitHub

* Her website

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This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit craigbox.substack.com