Kubernetes 1.18 Released

March 25, container orchestration Kubernetes (K8s) development team released the latest version “Kubernetes 1.18”. This is their first release in 2020. Beat and stable features are improved to provide better user experience.

Kubernetes 1.18 is a successor of Kubernetes 1.17 released in December 2019. There are 38 enhancements in total. Out of those enhancements, 15 are moving to stable, and 11 are in beta.

Most notable feature enhancement is that Kubernetes Topology Manager is moved to Beta. As it is a feature that enables NUMA alignment of CPU and devices, it allows workload in an environment optimized for low-latency.

Server-side Apply 1.18 was raised to Beta in v1.18, and now it’s Beta2. It allows tracking attps://kubernetes.io/ nd managing changes to fields of all Kubernetes objects.

Ingress, a Network routing feature, has been improved with a new pathType field, which allows specifying how paths should be matched, and Ingress Class, which describes an Ingress type within a Kubernetes cluster.

Support for CSI Proxy for Windows has been added as an Alph feature. It enables non-privileged containers to run privileged storage operations on Windows.

SIG-CLI introduced kubectl alpha debug command. This release includes many other improvements.

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