
Helm 2.5: Hardening Tiller and Managing Charts at Scale
Helm 2.5 tightens security around Tiller, adds chart testing hooks, and improves RBAC integration—making Kubernetes package management safer for enterprise teams.

Helm 2.5 tightens security around Tiller, adds chart testing hooks, and improves RBAC integration—making Kubernetes package management safer for enterprise teams.

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

Kubernetes Dashboard 1.7 introduces token-based login, kubeconfig switching and CRD visibility—aligning the web UI with production-grade security practices.

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

Istio 0.1 debuts a full-featured service mesh built on Envoy, Pilot, Mixer and Citadel—bringing traffic management, observability and policy to Kubernetes.

Calico 2.2 delivers GA Kubernetes NetworkPolicy support, flexible IPAM options, and host protection—advancing policy-driven networking for production clusters.

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.