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Code Freeze is coming, as is a mega-long list of merged changes and graduations.

The python-client developers are considering making major breaking changes, mainly for OpenAPI code. Add your feedback.

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Oct. 24 was the Contributor Summit. We started the day with a call to action from Paris & Tabitha, a review of how Japan has hosted their own contributor training, and GitHub staff showing how CodeSpaces for Kubernetes contributors will help people get started.

Here’s some session summaries (links require k8s.io/dev membership):

• Discussed the state of statefulness including the status of features like Taints, PDB, QoS, and slices
• Went over the limitations of kubectl apply and how we might solve them
• SIG-Network wants to run kubemark tests on networking components at large scale
• Apparently Kubernetes API user experience is a mess
• Most people don’t understand the real Pod Lifecycle, and who can blame them?
• Now that Dockershim is gone, it’s time to completely overhaul how CRI works

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KubeCon North America is now! Please bear with everyone as response times from SIGs and code review may be longer than usual.

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Next Deadline: Exceptions Due, October 31st

Last Week In Kubernetes Development

Week Ending October 16, 2022

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Registration for the Contributor Summit closes this Thursday. You must be registered to attend the Contributor Social, as well as for the Summit.

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After being elected to the Steering Committee, Nabarun Pal has stepped down from the Code of Conduct Committee, and Jason DeTiberius will be taking his place.

Registration is still open for the Contributor Summit, but will close next week. Register now if you’re coming!

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The Steering Committee election is concluded, and Benjamin Elder, Bob Killen, and Nabarun Pal have been elected.

k8s.gcr.io is redirecting to registry.k8s.io; contact BenTheElder, Ameukam, or Thockin if this breaks things.

We’ve removed makefile API generation. If you commit API changes, make sure to run update-codegen.sh before pushing.

Last Week in Kubernetes Development

Week ending September 25, 2022

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There have been extra patch releases due to a breaking change, see below.

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Two security reports this week: CVE-2022-3172, which allows aggregated API servers to misdirect traffic and steal credentials, and CVE-2021-25749, which can let users deploy Windows container workloads as Administrator. Both issues are fixed in the latest patch releases. Note that the patch for CVE-2022-3172 blocks all 300ish responses, so test after upgrading and be prepared to set --aggregator-reject-forwarding-redirect if your API server uses redirects.

Votes for the 2022 Steering Election are due September 29th. Please vote now!

The Contributor Summit CfP is still open.

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The Contributor Summit Detroit (at KubeCon North America 2022) has opened the call for sessions. If you have a discussion topic, workshop, SIG meeting, or anything else by and for contributors, suggest it by September 30. Also, register now so we have a better headcount for allocating space.

Steering committee ballots are due by September 29th. Vote now! If you’re still not on the voter rolls and think you should be (if you’re reading this, you likely qualify) make sure you get your exception request in by September 16th.

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Voting for the Steering Committee is open! Please vote by September 30th. If you need an eligibility exception, make sure to apply by September 16th.

If you want to be sure to get a Kubernetes contributor hoodie as part of your Contributor Summit swag, please register for the contributor summit by September 9th so we can order the right amounts.

See below about changes to the Enhancements process.

Last Week In Kubernetes Development

August 28, 2022

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Registration for the Contributor Summit is open.

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Registration for the KubeCon North America 2022 Contributor Summit is now open. It will be held on Monday, October 24th, in Detroit as one of the pre-main-event mini-confs. Please register early if you can, so the summit team can get a good attendance estimate for capacity planning.

1.26 Release Team shadow applications are now open. If you’re interested in joining the 1.26 team but aren’t sure if it’s for you, you can chat with anyone in the #sig-release channel on Slack.

Nominations for the Kubernetes Steering Committee are open until August 30. You can nominate yourself (or someone else but please ask them first) by opening an issue on the kubernetes/community repo. Check out the voter guide for more details on the process or reach out to any of the Election Officials.

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The 2022 Steering Committee election has started! Three SC seats are up for election this year. If you’re an active contributor to Kubernetes or any official SIG project and are a member of any Kubernetes GitHub org, please log in to https://elections.k8s.io/app/elections/steering—2022 and check if you are marked as an eligible voter. If you aren’t, please put in an update request. If you are interested running for the Steering Committee, please check out the Candidacy process. The first deadline for candidates is Tuesday, August 30th to submit nominations. If you have any questions about the election process, please reach out to any of the election officers in #sig-contribex-elections.

The new Code of Conduct Committee members have been selected: Danielle Lancashire, Hilliary Lipsig, Xander Grzywinski, and Jeremy Rickard. Thank you to the outgoing members for their service to our community!

Bob Killen reminds Kubernetes maintainers that scholarships to attend KubeCon are available for those without corporate sponsorship.

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Starting sometime in October, k8s.gcr.io will begin to 302 redirect to registry.k8s.io, in order to ensure that old releases pull from the new, lower hosting-cost and higher performance, registry.

With 1.24 stable on Go 1.18, Kubernetes contributors are officially allowed to use Go Generics, although you should avoid them in any backportable bug fixes until 1.24 is EOL in late 2023.

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Per KEP-2853, the publication branch of the kubernetes/kubernetes repository will switch to “main” at Code Freeze for 1.26, which is currently planned for mid-November.

We would like to update Golang to 1.19rc2 for 1.25, but (per thread) it’s breaking things in Kubernetes, so continue using 1.18 for the time being.

Code of Conduct Committee nominations are open through Thursday; nominate someone of excellent judgement and community engagement.

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Last LWKD covered the migration to Ginkgo v2 for testing. This change may break your code in a few different ways, including changing test timeouts and deprecating the -parallel flag, and quitting using the Measure method Please fix your tests accordingly.

Tim Xiu proposed Elastic GPU for GPU allocation & management.

Kubernetes Contributor Summit NA 2022 will happen on October 24th in Detroit. Registration will open soon. Note that there will also be some changes to COVID-19 precautions for the event.

Last Week in Kubernetes Development

Week ending July 10, 2022

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The Steering Committee has proposed some changes to its charter, resolving longstanding issues: moving selection out of the elections folder; adding a process for removing an SC member; adding a process for dissolving the SC. Comment on the PR if you have opinions.

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The Ingress-NGINX project is pausing accepting new features and spending the next season working on stability. While they’re doing that, if you are an Ingress-NGINX user, please fill out their survey and help decide what features to prioritize when they start up again.

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Next Deadline: Exceptions Due July 25th

Last Week In Kubernetes Development

Week Ending June 19, 2022

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The June 16th community meeting covered: introducing the new Release Lead, Cici Huang; the image registry move; the retirement of Service Catalog; a review by Paris Pittman of the Kubernetes Annual Report. Folks also discussed some of the sessions at the Contributor Summit, particularly the ones related to project sustainability and the Release Team. Notes, Video

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Ingress-nginx has a security issue which allows accessing cluster secrets. Upgrade to 1.2.1 or above as soon as possible.

The blog subproject is looking for contributors help them publish new posts. Folks can review upcoming blog posts on the kubernetes/website repository with the label area/blog. Before joining the effort, make sure to read through the blog guide and the style guide. Reach out to #sig-docs-blog to collaborate or ask any questions.

SIG-Release is updating their roadmap, watch the presentation. Josh Berkus has been nominated to chair SIG-Contributor Experience.

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The Kubernetes Annual Report Summary is now live, check it out.

The Kubernetes project is attempting to spread its container image traffic across several registries. As such, Arnaud would like you to direct traffic to the new registry pool at registry.k8s.io.

Tim Hockin is looking for help to convert Kubernetes to use Go Workspaces instead of the older Modules; join the code reorganization subproject to pitch in.

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Please make sure that your Zoom client (for community meetings) is updated to at least 5.10.0; there is a security issue in earlier versions.

The Release Cadence Survey is concluded and our community seems to prefer 3 releases a year. Also, half of you all are using EOL versions.

There was no May Community Meeting due to KubeCon.

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KubeCon EU 2022 is getting under way right now. If you’re attending in-person or virtually, enjoy!

Release Schedule

Next Deadline: 1.25 Cycle Starts, May 23rd

Last Week In Kubernetes Development

Week Ending May 8, 2022

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Kubernetes 1.24 “Stargazer” is released! Highlights of the new version include: signed release artifacts, volume expansion, migration of storage plugins to CSI, contextual logging, and IP collision avoidance. Dockershim has been removed and you may need to make changes to accommodate the new CNI version. Also, with the completion of 1.24, release branch fast-forward is live.

Last Week in Kubernetes Development

Week Ending May 1, 2022

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The April community meeting covered several ongoing efforts in the project:

Last Week In Kubernetes Development

Week Ending April 24, 2022

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Our contributors have spent a lot of time discussing improving general Kubernetes stability and reliability lately. Project leaders are implementing several changes in how new enhancements will be handled:

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The April Community Meeting is this Thursday (1700UTC / 10am PDT). We plan to discuss topics around running SIGs, including chair term limits, annual reports, and dividing Tech Leads from Chairs. We’ll probably also hash out how to handle non-expiring critical bugs.

Dims issued a call for action on our panoply of flaky test jobs and tests. Please see what you can do to make our tests more reliable, and see SIG-Testing for guidance on how to get started.

All Kubernetes developers should update their dev environments to go 1.18.1

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Registration for the 2022 KubeCon EU Contributor Summit is now open; please register as soon as you can so that we can get an approximate headcount. Most of the Summit will be an unconference, so think about sessions you might want to lead and/or request. We can also host SIG face-to-face meetings, if you want to hold one of these contact us

Abdullah Gharaibeh is looking for comments on the Pod Resources Reservation proposal.

If your organization forks Kubernetes and builds from Git, SIG-Release wants to hear from you about the upcoming primary branch rename from master to main for kubernetes/kubernetes. One response per organization, please.

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Etcd 3.5.X has a significant data corruption issue, and is not recommended for production use. If you have not yet upgraded to Etcd 3.5, please wait for 3.5.3. If you have upgraded, you need to restart etcd with the --experimental-initial-corrupt-check flag. Kubeadm supports this flag.

The Steering Committee is considering archiving SIG Service Catalog due to inactivity. If you use minibroker, service-catalog, or go-open-service-broker projects, please speak up on the linked issues about what you think should be done with that project.

Kubernetes Contributor Summit EU will be held on May 16th at the Fira in Valencia. Registration and additional details coming soon.

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Now that Pod Security is a thing, E2E tests will be run under the restricted pod security level. If this breaks your tests, you may need to request a different level.

You also might need to rebase to master to pick up changes introduced for golang 1.18.

Etcd needs more reviewers/maintainers. If you have experience with the Etcd code, but have moved on to other things, consider coming back to help out the project.

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We will be having a Contributor Summit at KubeCon EU, on May 16th, which will be mostly in an unconference format. Stay tuned for more information as we get closer.

Last week was Community Meeting week. Topics discussed included:

It’s been a year since we changed to 3 releases a year, so it’s time to evaluate if the change will be permanent. Per initial survey results so far, most people like it. But there’s still time to fill out the survey.

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Happy Pi(e) Day!

It’s been one year since we changed the release cadence for Kubernetes from 3 months to 4 months. Which means it’s time to survey how you feel about that. Please let us know! Is 3 releases a year better?

We’ve started a further discussion around what it would take to improve Kubernetes reliability.

Release Schedule

Next Deadline: Exceptions due, March 21st

While folks are working on features, CI signal has gotten worse. Currently there are 14 flaky jobs between master-informing and master-blocking, and there’s even one failing master-blocking job. This is not a good trend. Please have a look at the problem tests and see if you can help.

The cherry-pick deadline for the next patch releases is March 11th.

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We wish our Ukrainian community members, as well as contributors throughout Eastern Europe, safety for both themselves and their families, and peace soon.

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Next Deadline: Exceptions due, March 21st

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The monthly Community Meeting is back! Every 3rd Thursday of the month we’ll be meeting; subscribers to dev@kubernetes.io should have the calendar item. Contact Laura Santamaria if you’re available to help run it. Last week’s Community Meeting covered the Dockershim removal planning, the Reliability Bar proposal, and the last follow up on the move to dev@kubernetes.io. Video will be up soon, and next meeting is March 17th.

SIG-CLI is discussing whether we should implement robust file locking for kubeconfig, or phase out file locking entirely. Please reach out and add your use cases.

The job queueing API design has advanced over the last month.

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Kubernetes switched over to using EasyCLA for CLA verification on Feb 5. You can tell Prow /easycla to recheck your CLA status. If that doesn’t work, file an LF ticket and add your report to the tracking issue.

Since klog flags were deprecated in 1.23, folks who use klog into their Go executable may need to re-import k8s.io/component-base/logs and do some troubleshooting.

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The main cert-manager repo will be migrating to cert-manager/cert-manager on Feb. 2. The standard GitHub redirects will be in place but if you import from cert-manager in third-party code, you should update the repo path in your code when you get a chance. Container images and helm charts will not move.

Jordan Liggit updated the Kubernetes deprecation policy to reflect actual practice. The new policy makes it clear that Kubernetes does not deprecate Stable APIs within a major version.

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Abdullah Gharaibeh has proposed a new API for job queueing, replacing the earlier Job Management proposal for your commenting pleasure.

Now that most Kubernetes components are using structured logging, SIG-Instrumentation would like to talk about contextual logging as a feature. Like structured logging, this will affect a lot of components across the project.

We had a storm of spam on the mailing lists last week, so many Kubernetes lists are now moderated-first-post. Be patient with the delay when you first join a list.

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We plan to switch to EasyCLA on February 5th. Please check the EasyCLA results in any PRs you submit this week; is EasyCLA correctly finding your CLA? If not, file a ticket as soon as you see problems.

Reminder: now that kubernetes-dev@googlegroups has been replaced by dev@kubernetes.io, please remember to share any community docs you have (like SIG agendas, etc.) with dev@kubernetes.io.

What if logging in Kubernetes was fully pluggable? Patrick Ohly is soliciting feedback on a KEP for “contextual logging”. Drawback: requires another project-wide overhaul, just like structured logging did.

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Welcome to the 5th year of LWKD! LWKD is brought to you by Josh Berkus and Noah Kantrowitz of SIG-ContribEx. You can contribute through the git repo. As usual for the first issue of the year we’ll be summarizing the last 3 weeks or so of development over the holidays.

dev@kubernetes.io is the new kubernetes-dev@googlegroups: over the holidays, Paris Pittman and others moved us from the old Dev mailing list, to one hosted on the kubernetes.io domain. If you were subscribed to kubernetes-dev, you should be subscribed to the new dev@kubernetes.io mailing list now. Remember to post to the right place! This move will let us have a real community calendar again.

The draft charter for Batch WG is up for comment. Nick Turner is now co-chair of Cloud Provider SIG.

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Lots of news for you this week, starting with the 1.23 release(release notes). SLSA compliance, Dual Stack, FlexVolume deprecation, PodSecurity API and more. Note that the new version of cri-tools is not yet available, which means that some people should wait to upgrade.

Second, this will be the last LWKD in 2021. Publication will resume in January.

The Contributor Celebration is this week.

Last Week In Kubernetes Development for December 5th

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The Contributor Celebration has added several planned activities, including a BakeOff, DevOps party games, arts, and of course the annual contributor awards. Several events are looking for participants; register now.

EasyCLA is not working, so we’ll be putting off switching CLA bots until after 1.24.

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SIG-Auth is looking for folks interested in their several KEPs that need work for 1.24, particularly KMS-plugin.

SIG-Release has updated their roadmap, including the addition of the SLSA KEP to support supply-chain security.

It’s time to stop using gcr.io/kubernetes-e2e-test-images and start using k8s.gcr.io/e2e-test-images. SIG-Node could use some help getting users off of http://gcr.io/k8s-authenticated-test if you can lend a hand. This is part of the move to community-owned infra.

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Registration is open for the Contributor Celebration. Join us for end-of-year fun with your peers.

Since Tim Pepper was elected to Steering, he has stepped down from the Code of Conduct Committee and Carlos Panato has taken his place. Steering Liaisons for SIGs are also changing. Steering and CoCC have also jointly made it clear that nobody is above the Code of Conduct.

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Dockershim is going away in 1.24. Are you ready? SIG-Node is collecting user feedback on the current state of the removal. It will only take you a few minutes, please fill it out if you can. Thanks!

We are testing moving to EasyCLA for CLA-signing, to replace the older propriety Linux Foundation system. Currently EasyCLA is giving lots of warnings, but it’s not blocking your merge. If it doesn’t recognize you, comment on the tracking issue.

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The new Steering Committee members have been elected. Re-elected SC members Paris Pittman and Christoph Blecker will be joined by newly elected members Stephen Augustus and Tim Pepper. They will serve with the three continuing members for the 2021-2022 term. Thank you to Derek Carr and Nikhita Raghunath for their service to our community!