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 2017 is 1.6.1. The next release 1.7 is about 22% done. Here are a couple of issues from the 1.7 releases to give you a taste of the work being done:

• WIP group the KubeletConfiguration parameters into substructures
• Mark Kubelet's master-service-namespace flag as deprecated
• Remove the deprecated --babysit-daemons kubelet flag
• Clean up the pre-ControllerRef compatibility logic
• Use Watch() for VerifyControllerAttachedVolume instead of a single poll

Minor releases are released every three months, and patch releases plug holes and issues until the next minor release. Here the release dates of the three most recent releases:

• 1.6.0 released on March 29, 2017, and 1.6.1 released on April, 2 2017...