Gaze into the stars with Kubernetes 1.24 release team lead, James Laverack. James is a software engineer turned solutions engineer at Jetstack, and explains the difference between the two roles, as well as how he found his home in SIG Release and what to expect in 1.24.

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Links from the interview

Bristol
Box
Life as a Solutions Engineer at Jetstack
- “I don’t think your job is to code anymore, you just talk to people all day.”
Minecraft operator
Improbable’s etcd operator
Intro to the Kubernetes 1.24 release process
Kubernetes 1.24
- Full release notes
- Dockershim is, like, proper gone
- Beta APIs Off by Default
- Release artifacts are signed, with experimental support for verifying them
  - Increased supply chain security for Kubernetes
  - SLSA
  - Episode 167, with Rey Lejano
  - Episode 174, with Santiago Torres-Arias
- Storage Capacity tracking and Volume Expansion
- Storage plugin migration
  - Azure Disk
  - OpenStack Cinder
- gRPC liveness and readiness probes
- Avoiding collisions in IP ranges
Release theme and logo
1.25 release team
Go 1.18 error delays 1.24 release
James Laverack on Twitter

Kubernetes 1.24, with James Laverack

Kubernetes Podcast from Google