Kubernetes v1.1.1stable Released Nov 09, 2015
Impact Score: 5/10

Kubernetes: Release v1.1.1

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โšก Executive Summary (TL;DR)

Kubernetes v1.1.1. Source highlight: Documentation

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๐Ÿ’ป Software Engineers & Devs

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๐Ÿ“Š Product & Engineering Leads

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โš™๏ธ DevOps & Security

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โœจ New Features & Capabilities (6)

  • Horizontal Pod Autoscaling
  • Job objects for batch and other run-once workloads
  • HTTP Loadbalancing support
  • Improvements to the `kubectl` tool including interactive containers and improvements to `kubectl rolling-update`
  • Add liveness probe to kube-ui (#10787, @karlkfi)
  • Add groups to service account user.Info (#8607, @liggitt)

๐Ÿ”ง Bug Fixes & Patches (5)

  • Many other bug fixes and performance improvements
  • Fix GCE PD attach/detach issues (#11561, @saad-ali)
  • Various exec fixes (#13322, @ncdc)
  • Fix new docker config format for private registries (#12717, @tamnd)
  • Maintain an IP address independent of the forwarding rule for GCE plus bug fixes (#14569, @a-robinson)
๐Ÿ“„ View Raw Release Notes (Original Developer Log)
## [Documentation](http://releases.k8s.io/release-1.1/docs/README.md) ## [Examples](http://releases.k8s.io/release-1.1/examples) ## Changes since v1.1 ### Main features - Horizontal Pod Autoscaling - Job objects for batch and other run-once workloads - HTTP Loadbalancing support - Improvements to the `kubectl` tool including interactive containers and improvements to `kubectl rolling-update` - Many other bug fixes and performance improvements ### Other important changes - Fix GCE PD attach/detach issues (#11561, @saad-ali) - Adding proper timeouts. (#10656, @krousey) - Allocating CIDRs for Pods works without a cloud provider. (#11867, @kelseyhightower) - Add liveness probe to kube-ui (#10787, @karlkfi) - Implement kubectl annotation update command (#11779, @janetkuo) - Add groups to service account user.Info (#8607, @liggitt) - mesos/docker automated local cluster deployment (#10049, @karlkfi) - Use TYPE instead of RESOURCE in help string (#10742, @hurf) - Don't wrongly identify endpoint addresses only due to equal IP (#10390, @sttts) - add non-root directive to SC and kubelet checking (#11669, @pweil-) - Add Birthcry event to kube-proxy (#12464, @jiangyaoguo) - Implement Iptables based Proxy (#9210, @BenTheElder) - Added HorizontalPodAutoscaler object to experimental API. (#12344, @jszczepkowski) - Keystone authentication plugin (#11798, @uruddarraju) - Enable graceful deletion using reconciliation loops in the Kubelet without TTL (#9165, @smarterclayton) - Check loopback and link-local multicast endpoints (#10713, @thockin) - Hide terminated pods in 'kubectl' Printer by default (#12112, @janetkuo) - External IPs support (#12561, @ArtfulCoder) - plugin/pkg/auth: add OpenID Connect token authenticator (#10957, @yifan-gu) - Deprecated -t for --template to make it --tty (#12813, @janetkuo) - Make --validate default on and shows how to turn if off (#12837, @janetkuo) - Refactor to use docker-machine or boot2docker (#13095, @kelcecil) - MESOS: Add path-override for minion controller so that kube-proxy can find iptables (#13050, @sttts) - Added flags for horizontal pod autoscaler to controller-manager. (#13142, @jszczepkowski) - Cinder Volume Plugin (#13367, @spothanis) - Enable graceful deletion of pods (7/7) (#12963, @smarterclayton) - add Ceph FS volume plugin (#6649, @rootfs) - downward api volume plugin (#5093, @sdminonne) - Deprecated kubectl flag "create-external-load-balancer" (#13099, @janetkuo) - MESOS: Add --contain-pod-resources flag to determine how k8s-mesos will contain pod resources (#13421, @jdef) - Various exec fixes (#13322, @ncdc) - MESOS: add flags for initial executor cpu and memory resources (#13617, @jdef) - Block apiserver startup on certificate (#13682, @ryfow) - Create a LB for a K8S with the LB-IP provided by user. (#13005, @ArtfulCoder) - Show more information in describe node/pod (#12695, @janetkuo) - Distribute kubectl bash completion file with kubernetes binaries (#13836, @janetkuo) - New Job resource (#12910, @soltysh) - Update util/iptables to deal with firewalld (#12396, @danwinship) - Update fluentd-gcp such that exported logs are associated with kubernetes (#13886, @a-robinson) - pull "kubectl edit" from openshift upstream (#13604, @janetkuo) - Fix new docker config format for private registries (#12717, @tamnd) - support fibre channel volume (#12599, @rootfs) - Support extended pod logging options (#13780, @smarterclayton) - Flag controlled RLIMIT_NOFILE for kubelet. (#14381, @dchen1107) - allow privileged pods (#13930, @ArtfulCoder) - Maintain an IP address independent of the forwarding rule for GCE plus bug fixes (#14569, @a-robinson) - Removed DenyEscalatingExec from the list of default admission controllers (#15188, @ArtfulCoder) - Upgrade to docker 1.8.3 (#15719, @dchen1107) - 1.1 cherry-pick cadvisor bump (#16193, @jimmidyson) - Automated cherry pick of #15994 upstream release 1.1 (#16549, @dchen1107) | binary | hash alg | hash | | --- | --- | --- | | `kubernetes.tar.gz` | md5 | `5bb725dc7556ecdface239f4a31d1f26` | | `kubernetes.tar.gz` | sha1 | `0eac7460fcf7d175592466603f6b9c2a076fb7b2` |