Impact Score: 5/10
Kubernetes: Release 0.15.0
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Analysis updated: 2026-11-01.
⚡ Executive Summary (TL;DR)
Kubernetes v0.15.0. Source highlight: Enables v1beta3 API and sets it to the default API version (#6098)
Who Does This Impact? (Role-Based Analysis)
💻 Software Engineers & Devs
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📊 Product & Engineering Leads
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⚙️ DevOps & Security
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✨ New Features & Capabilities (6)
- Added multi-port Services (#6182)
- Added a controller framework (#5270, #5473)
- Added rate limiting to pod deleting (#6355)
- Added an api endpoint to pull logs from Pods (#6497)
- Added latency metrics to scheduler (#6368)
- Added latency metrics to REST client (#6409)
🔧 Bug Fixes & Patches (1)
- Updated AWS provider to fix Region vs Zone semantics (#6011)
📄 View Raw Release Notes (Original Developer Log)
### Release 0.15.0
- Enables v1beta3 API and sets it to the default API version (#6098)
- See the [v1beta3 conversion guide](https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/kubernetes/blob/master/docs/api.md#v1beta3-conversion-tips)
- Added multi-port Services (#6182)
- New Getting Started Guides
- Multi-node local startup guide (#6505)
- JUJU (#5414)
- Mesos on Google Cloud Platform (#5442)
- Ansible Setup instructions (#6237)
- Added a controller framework (#5270, #5473)
- The Kubelet now listens on a secure HTTPS port (#6380)
- Made kubectl errors more user-friendly (#6338)
- The apiserver now supports client cert authentication (#6190)
- The apiserver now limits the number of concurrent requests it processes (#6207)
- Added rate limiting to pod deleting (#6355)
- Implement Balanced Resource Allocation algorithm as a PriorityFunction in scheduler package (#6150)
- Enabled log collection from master (#6396)
- Added an api endpoint to pull logs from Pods (#6497)
- Added latency metrics to scheduler (#6368)
- Added latency metrics to REST client (#6409)
- etcd now runs in a pod on the master (#6221)
- nginx now runs in a container on the master (#6334)
- Began creating Docker images for master components (#6326)
- Updated GCE provider to work with gcloud 0.9.54 (#6270)
- Updated AWS provider to fix Region vs Zone semantics (#6011)
- Record event when image GC fails (#6091)
- Add a QPS limiter to the kubernetes client (#6203)
- Decrease the time it takes to run make release (#6196)
- New volume support
- Added iscsi volume plugin (#5506)
- Added glusterfs volume plugin (#6174)
- AWS EBS volume support (#5138)
- Updated to heapster version to v0.10.0 (#6331)
- Updated to etcd 2.0.9 (#6544)
- Updated to Kibana to v1.2 (#6426)
- Bug Fixes
- Kube-proxy now updates iptables rules if a service's public IPs change (#6123)
- Retry kube-addons creation if the initial creation fails (#6200)
- Make kube-proxy more resiliant to running out of file descriptors (#6727)
| binary | hash alg | hash |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `kubernetes.tar.gz` | md5 | `5fcec5fab9ae1885ec7c321855f219f0` |
| `kubernetes.tar.gz` | sha1 | `80ca43c637dd53e8e7fc25ed66fc26a2dbdae10c` |