
Envoy 1.7: xDS Consistency and HTTP/2 Resilience Upgrades
Envoy Proxy 1.7 focuses on resilient xDS discovery, improved gRPC/HTTP handling, and richer observability to anchor modern service meshes.

Envoy Proxy 1.7 focuses on resilient xDS discovery, improved gRPC/HTTP handling, and richer observability to anchor modern service meshes.

Contour 0.1 introduces an Envoy-based ingress controller with IngressRoute CRDs, providing advanced routing and TLS management for Kubernetes edge traffic.

Helm 2.9 unlocks chart testing automation, granular Tiller RBAC, and new repository tooling—perfect for GitOps-ready Kubernetes teams.

Prometheus 2.3 introduces subquery support, experimental remote read improvements, and smarter staleness handling—leveling up Kubernetes observability.

Google open sources gVisor, a userspace kernel that sandboxes containers with stronger isolation than runc—useful for multi-tenant clusters, CI runners, and serverless-style workloads.

Kubernetes 1.10 promotes CSI and local persistent volumes to beta, introduces pod priority & preemption, dynamic kubelet configuration, and tighter security integrations for production clusters.

Calico 3.0 delivers a new CRD-backed data model, native Windows support, IP-in-IP upgrades, and tighter Kubernetes integration—setting the stage for secure, large-scale clusters.

CoreDNS 1.0 graduates with GA stability, dynamic plugin loading and kube-dns parity—ready to become the default DNS server for Kubernetes clusters.

Kubernetes 1.9 brought apps/v1 GA, expanded ecosystem support for Windows and Docker, and maturity upgrades across storage and admission-control.

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