
Kubernetes 1.8: Security, Workloads and Feature Depth
Kubernetes 1.8 delivers major enhancements in security (RBAC GA, certificate rotation), workload APIs, runtime choices (CRI-O) and overall project maturity.

Kubernetes 1.8 delivers major enhancements in security (RBAC GA, certificate rotation), workload APIs, runtime choices (CRI-O) and overall project maturity.

kubeadm matures with high availability support and upgrade workflows, making it viable for production on-premises deployments.

kube-bench 0.1.0 automates CIS Kubernetes Benchmark compliance checking, enabling teams to identify and remediate security misconfigurations in their clusters.

Kubernetes 1.7 introduces stronger security (encryption, network policies, node authorizer), enhanced extensibility (API aggregation, CRDs) and stateful workload updates — a key enterprise release.

Kubernetes 1.6 delivered support for 5000-node clusters, improved multi-user scheduling and security (RBAC), dynamic storage provisioning and more — a major scale & stability milestone.

Cluster Federation in Kubernetes 1.5: Managing Multi-Cluster Deployments

Kubernetes 1.5 delivered StatefulSet & PodDisruptionBudget (beta), the Container Runtime Interface, and broadened production readiness across runtimes and platforms.

KubeCon 2016 introduced Service Catalog and the Open Service Broker API, connecting Kubernetes to external services.

Comparing the rise of kops for AWS and Azure Container Service for managed Kubernetes clusters.

Kubeadm beta offers a best-practice path to bootstrap production-ready Kubernetes clusters.