Release 1.2

Tentative. Work in progress.

• Scalability

  • More nodes
  • More pods per node (for large nodes, overcommit)

• Wrap up features that were in flight during the 1.1 timeframe

  • Auto-scaling APIs
  • Ingress API
  • Job API
  • ScheduledJob API
  • DaemonSet API
  • Metrics APIs
  • ConfigData API
  • Component registration API
  • Make it easier to create resources
    • New resource from template
    • Secret/config generation
    • export and convert
  • Make it easier to update resources
    • Declarative updates: kubectl apply
    • kubectl edit, diff
    • Rolling update as a service: Deployment API

• Enhance extensibility

  • External node-level plugins: network, volume, container runtime, cloud provider
  • External cluster-level plugins: admission control, cloud provider, scheduler, API resources
  • Initializers for async. initialization and multiple schedulers, auto-scalers, etc.
  • Node attribute labels

• Improve development velocity/scalability

  • Fork some code into separate repos (e.g., apiserver, client)
  • Reorganize directories
  • TBD

• Pay down technical debt

  • Testing
  • Usable client library
  • TBD