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

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


Helm v2 Release: The Birth of Kubernetes Package Management

Role-Based Access Control arrives as beta in Kubernetes 1.4/1.5, replacing permissive auth models.

Kubernetes 1.4 introduced kubeadm, expanded security (RBAC beta), CRI groundwork, and made 'Kubernetes Anywhere' a reality.

Kubernetes Dashboard: A Web UI for Your Cluster

Kubernetes 1.3 bridged cloud-native and enterprise workloads with PetSet (alpha), 5,000-node scale, and the first taste of cluster federation.

Overview of Kubernetes 1.2 — scale to 1,000 nodes, new declarative APIs (Deployment, ConfigMap), and a richer autoscaling story.

Overview of the official Kubernetes 1.0 release — the first stable Kubernetes release from Google, marking the birth of CNCF and cloud-native orchestration.