Kubernetes 1.10 Focuses on Stabilizing Storage and Security

Kubenetes 1.10 was recently released. This is the first release since Kubernetes graduated from Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) incubation. This graduation is a bigger deal than Kubernetes itself, as Kubernetes is an open source community driven software. Congratulations are in order for all of the contributors to open source Kubernetes advancement.

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Kubernetes 1.10 is significant in a few key areas, including, security, storage, and networking. Three of the most important areas in computing.

Flexibility is arguably the most important component to Kubernetes. This update extends the flexible nature of Kubernetes. The press release states, “The Kubernetes implementation of the Container Storage Interface(CSI) moves to beta in this release: installing new volume plugins is now as easy as deploying a pod. This, in turn, enables third-party storage providers to develop their solutions independently outside of the core Kubernetes codebase. This continues the thread of extensibility within the Kubernetes ecosystem.”

Security has long been a problem for containers. This is mostly due to user error, but user error is a difficult thing to eliminate. 1.10 adds more credential providers to create a safer environment. “Cloud providers, vendors, and other platform developers can now release binary plugins to handle authentication for specific cloud-provider IAM services, or that integrate with in-house authentication systems that aren’t supported in-tree, such as Active Directory.”

Kubernetes 1.10 is available now to download on GitHub.