
Container Storage Interface 0.1: A Common Language for Volumes
The CSI 0.1 specification debuts with a vendor-neutral API for provisioning, publishing and managing storage across Kubernetes and other orchestrators.

The CSI 0.1 specification debuts with a vendor-neutral API for provisioning, publishing and managing storage across Kubernetes and other orchestrators.

The Kubernetes community launches the Federation v2 working group, introducing a CRD-driven architecture for multi-cluster management and paving the way for Kubefed.

Harbor 1.2 delivers role-based access control, vulnerability scanning and replication policies—turning the open-source registry into a production-ready companion for Kubernetes.

Google Kubernetes Engine reaches general availability with production-grade features, making managed Kubernetes a viable alternative to self-hosted clusters.

Prometheus 2.0 introduces a revamped TSDB, WAL-based scrapes and remote-write improvements—boosting performance and reliability for Kubernetes observability stacks.

FluxCD 1.1 extends GitOps with image automation, registry scanning and multi-namespace support, helping teams continuously deliver Kubernetes workloads from Git.

kube-router 0.2 unifies BGP routing, service proxying and NetworkPolicy enforcement—targeting lightweight, all-in-one networking for Kubernetes.

Minikube 0.22 introduces addon configuration, cache warming and parallel provisioning across hypervisors, speeding up local Kubernetes development.

Brigade 1.0 empowers teams to run JavaScript pipelines on Kubernetes, wiring together events from GitHub, Docker registries and more into containerized jobs.

Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) reaches General Availability in Kubernetes 1.8, providing fine-grained authorization for users and service accounts.