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.
Kubernetes SIG-Network ships ExternalDNS 0.1 to automate DNS records for Services and Ingress across Route53, Google Cloud DNS, and more.
Linkerd 1.0 establishes the first production-ready service mesh for Kubernetes, introducing transparent service-to-service communication, observability, and reliability features.
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.
KubeCon 2016 signals: Kubernetes is becoming a shared substrate, and the hard work shifts to release engineering, policy, and day-2 reliability.
Kubeadm beta offers a best-practice path to bootstrap production-ready Kubernetes clusters.