Kubernetes 1.25, with Cici Huang

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?

Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know:

• web: kubernetespodcast.com
• mail: [email protected]
• twitter: @kubernetespod

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