The road ahead

Kubernetes is a large open source project. Let's look at some of the planned features and upcoming releases, as well the various special interest groups that focus on specific areas.

Kubernetes releases and milestones

Kubernetes has fairly regular releases. The current release, as of April 2018, is 1.10. The next release, 1.11, is currently 33% complete. Here are a couple of issues from the 1.11 releases to give you a taste of the work being done:

• Update to Go 1.10.1 and default etcd server to 3.2
• Support out-of-tree authentication providers
• Migrate kublet flags to kublet.config.k8s.io
• Add support of Azure Standard Load Balancer and public IP
• Add kubectl api-resources command
• Minor releases are released every 3 months, and patch releases plug holes and issues until the next minor release. Here are the release dates of the three most recent releases:
  • 10.0 released on March 26, 2018, and 1.9.6 released on March, 21 2018
  • 9.0 released on Dec 15, 2017, and 1.8.5 released on December, 7...