Kubernetes 1.9 introduces Vertical Pod Autoscaler alpha, enabling automatic resource request and limit adjustment for pods based on historical usage patterns.
CoreDNS 1.0 graduates with GA stability, dynamic plugin loading and kube-dns parity—ready to become the default DNS server for Kubernetes clusters.
Across KubeCon EU (Berlin) and NA (Austin) in 2017, the ecosystem shifted from 'getting Kubernetes running' to standard interfaces, policy-driven operations, and production-grade day-2 practices—with early service-mesh thinking reshaping how teams design platforms.
Kubernetes 1.9 brought apps/v1 GA, expanded ecosystem support for Windows and Docker, and maturity upgrades across storage and admission-control.
Cilium 0.9 delivers production-ready eBPF datapath, HTTP-aware network policy, and kube-proxy replacement previews—setting the stage for the 1.0 release.
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.