
Traefik 1.7: Kubernetes Ingress Reloaded with TCP and CRD Support
Traefik 1.7 expands beyond HTTP—adding TCP routing, Kubernetes CRDs, and Let's Encrypt wildcard support for production ingress control.

Traefik 1.7 expands beyond HTTP—adding TCP routing, Kubernetes CRDs, and Let's Encrypt wildcard support for production ingress control.

Knative debuts with Serving, Build, and Eventing components, giving Kubernetes operators a pluggable serverless substrate.

CoreDNS 1.2 readies Kubernetes clusters for the kube-dns handoff with improved autoscaling, plugin polish, and smarter metrics.

Kubernetes 1.11 graduates IPVS load-balancing, CoreDNS, kubeadm and CRD versioning, while upgrading etcd and polishing multi-cloud integrations.

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.