Xander Grzywinski is a Senior Open Source Product Manager at Microsoft and the Kubernetes 1.27 release lead.

We interviewed Xander to explore some highlights from the release, and discuss a bit about what it’s like to work with the release team.

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Links from the interview

Xander Grzywinsk:

KEP 753: Sidecar containers

Kubernetes Removals and Major Changes In v1.27

Kubernetes 1.27: StatefulSet PVC Auto-Deletion (beta)

Kubernetes 1.27: More fine-grained pod topology spread policies reached beta

Kubernetes 1.27: Single Pod Access Mode for PersistentVolumes Graduates to Beta

Kubernetes 1.27: HorizontalPodAutoscaler ContainerResource type metric moves to beta