# Kubernetes Atlanta Meetup: June 2020 - Date: 06.24.2020<!--date as MM.DD.YYYY--> - Location: - Virtual via Zoom - Speakers: - Multi-Cluster Service Mesh with Linkerd - Charles Pretzer (Buoyant.io)<!--presentation title--> - Hosts: - @alex.b - @phenixblue ## This Month in Kubernetes - **Kubernetes Release Info** - The [1.19 schedule has been changed](https://github.com/kubernetes/sig-release/tree/master/releases/release-1.19), with Code Freeze now on July 9, and Cherry Pick and Test Freeze deadlines on August 6th. [Beta 2](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/blob/master/CHANGELOG/CHANGELOG-1.19.md/#v1190-beta2) is available. - **Kubernetes Enhancement PR's of note** - [Ingress moving to GA!!!](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/89778) - [KEP](https://github.com/kubernetes/enhancements/blob/master/keps/sig-network/20190125-ingress-api-group.md) - [Blog on Ingress updates for K8s 1.18](https://kubernetes.io/blog/2020/06/05/supporting-the-evolving-ingress-specification-in-kubernetes-1.18/) - **General Community News** - [Kubernetes Docs get a facelift](https://kubernetes.io/blog/2020/06/better-docs-ux-with-docsy/) - New project making use of Virtual Kubelet - There is an interesting effort to implement non-standard kubelets put forward by a consortium at (https://github.com/virtual-kubelet). The idea seems to be around running pods as things like fargate instances, but one new project, [elotl](https://github.com/elotl/kip), actually launches right-sized ec2 instances on a per-pod level, based on the pod memory/instance request - [Analysis of Kubernetes history with Data Science and Machine Learning](https://kubernetes.io/blog/2020/05/my-exciting-journey-into-kubernetes-history/) - [Kubernetes Secret Store CSI Driver](https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/secrets-store-csi-driver) - [GKE Cluster scaled to 15,000 nodes](https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/containers-kubernetes/google-kubernetes-engine-clusters-can-have-up-to-15000-nodes) - [Kubernetes Scalability Threshholds](https://github.com/kubernetes/community/blob/master/sig-scalability/configs-and-limits/thresholds.md) - [GKE Scalability Guidelines](https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine/docs/concepts/scalability) ## Meetup Links ## Meetup Slides - [Multi-Cluster Service Mesh with Linkerd](https://www.slideshare.net/JoeSearcy1/multicluster-service-mesh-with-linkerd-charles-pretzer-buoyant) ## Meetup Recordings - [Youtube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUEpCHd-Q0k) ## Meetup Notes ### Who's Hiring - [Roadie](www.roadie.com) is looking for a strong SRE. Please reach out to [Joel Baxter](mailto:joel@roadie.com), Head of Technical Operations @ Roadie - https://boards.greenhouse.io/roadie/jobs/4623837002 - Datastax is hiring for a number of cloud ops/eng roles. Please reach out to [Eldon Stegall](mailto:eldon.stegall@datastax.com) - https://www.smartrecruiters.com/DataStax/743999713486581-sr-software-engineer-cloud-ops-remote-us ###### tags: `meetup` `2020` `june` `linkerd` `service mesh`