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Finally, we have arrived with Kubernetes 1.19, the second release for 2020, and by far the longest release cycle lasting 20 weeks in total. It consists of 33 enhancements: 12 enhancements are moving to stable, 18 enhancements in beta, and 13 enhancements in alpha.
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Finally, we have arrived with Kubernetes 1.19, the second release for 2020, and by far the longest release cycle lasting 20 weeks in total. It consists of 34 enhancements: 10 enhancements are moving to stable, 15 enhancements in beta, and 9 enhancements in alpha.
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The 1.19 release was quite different from a regular release due to COVID-19, the George Floyd protests, and several other global events that we experienced as a release team. Due to these events, we made the decision to adjust our timeline and allow the SIGs, Working Groups, and contributors more time to get things done. The extra time also allowed for people to take time to focus on their lives outside of the Kubernetes project, and ensure their mental wellbeing was in a good place.
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The 1.19 release was quite different from a regular release due to COVID-19, the George Floyd protests, and several other global events that we experienced as a release team. Due to these events, we made the decision to adjust our timeline and allow the SIGs, Working Groups, and contributors more time to get things done. The extra time also allowed for people to take time to focus on their lives outside of the Kubernetes project, and ensure their mental wellbeing was in a good place.
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Contributors are the heart of Kubernetes, not the other way around. The Kubernetes code of conduct asks that people be excellent to one another and despite the unrest in our world, we saw nothing but greatness and humility from the community.
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Contributors are the heart of Kubernetes, not the other way around. The Kubernetes code of conduct asks that people be excellent to one another and despite the unrest in our world, we saw nothing but greatness and humility from the community.
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## Major Themes
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### Increase Kubernetes support window to one year
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A survey conducted in early 2019 by the [Long Term Support (LTS) working group](https://github.com/kubernetes/community/tree/master/wg-lts#readme) showed that a significant subset of Kubernetes end-users fail to upgrade within the current 9-month support period.
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A survey conducted in early 2019 by the [Long Term Support (LTS) working group](https://github.com/kubernetes/community/tree/master/wg-lts#readme) showed that a significant subset of Kubernetes end-users fail to upgrade within the current 9-month support period.
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This, and other responses from the survey, suggest that 30% of users would be able to keep their deployments on supported versions if the patch support period were extended to 12-14 months. This appears to be true regardless of whether the users are on self build or commercially vendored distributions. An extension would thus lead to more than 80% of users being on supported versions, instead of the 50-60% we have now.
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A yearly support period provides the cushion end-users appear to desire, and is more in harmony with familiar annual planning cycles.
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From Kubernetes version 1.19 on, the support window will be extended to one year.
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### Storage capacity tracking
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### Storage capacity tracking
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Traditionally, the Kubernetes scheduler was based on the assumptions that additional persistent storage is available everywhere in the cluster and has infinite capacity. Topology constraints addressed the first point, but up to now pod scheduling was still done without considering that the remaining storage capacity may not be enough to start a new pod. [Storage capacity tracking](/docs/concepts/storage/storage-capacity/), a new alpha feature, addresses that by adding an API for a CSI driver to report storage capacity and uses that information in the Kubernetes scheduler when choosing a node for a pod. This feature serves as a stepping stone for supporting dynamic provisioning for local volumes and other volume types that are more capacity constrained.
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The alpha version of CSI health monitoring is being released with Kubernetes 1.19. This feature enables CSI Drivers to share abnormal volume conditions from the underlying storage systems with Kubernetes so that they can be reported as events on PVCs or Pods. This feature serves as a stepping stone towards programmatic detection and resolution of individual volume health issues by Kubernetes.
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### Ingress graduates to General Availability
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In terms of moving the Ingress API towards GA, the API itself has been available in beta for so long that it has attained de facto GA status through usage and adoption (both by users and by load balancer / ingress controller providers). Abandoning it without a full replacement is not a viable approach. It is clearly a useful API and captures a non-trivial set of use cases. At this point, it seems more prudent to declare the current API as something the community will support as a V1, codifying its status, while working on either a V2 Ingress API or an entirely different API with a superset of features.
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In terms of moving the Ingress API towards GA, the API itself has been available in beta for so long that it has attained de facto GA status through usage and adoption (both by users and by load balancer / ingress controller providers). Abandoning it without a full replacement is not a viable approach. It is clearly a useful API and captures a non-trivial set of use cases. At this point, it seems more prudent to declare the current API as something the community will support as a V1, codifying its status, while working on either a V2 Ingress API or an entirely different API with a superset of features.
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### Structured logging
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Before v1.19, logging in the Kubernetes control plane couldn't guarantee any uniform structure for log messages and references to Kubernetes objects in those logs. This makes parsing, processing, storing, querying and analyzing logs hard and forces administrators and developers to rely on ad-hoc solutions in most cases based on some regular expressions. Due to those problems any analytical solution based on those logs is hard to implement and maintain.
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### Client TLS certificate rotation for kubelet
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A kubelet authenticates the kubelet to the kube-apiserver using a private key and certificate. The certificate is supplied to the kubelet when it is first booted, via an out-of-cluster mechanism. Since Kubernetes v1.8, clusters have included a (beta) process for obtaining the initial cert/key pair and rotating it as expiration of the certificate approaches. In Kubernetes v1.19 this graduates to stable.
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A kubelet authenticates the kubelet to the kube-apiserver using a private key and certificate. The certificate is supplied to the kubelet when it is first booted, via an out-of-cluster mechanism. Since Kubernetes v1.8, clusters have included a (beta) process for obtaining the initial cert/key pair and rotating it as expiration of the certificate approaches. In Kubernetes v1.19 this graduates to stable.
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During the kubelet start-up sequence, the filesystem is scanned for an existing cert/key pair, which is managed by the certificate manager. In the case that a cert/key is available it will be loaded. If not, the kubelet checks its config file for an encoded certificate value or a file reference in the kubeconfig. If the certificate is a bootstrap certificate, this will be used to generate a key, create a certificate signing request and request a signed certificate from the API server.
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When an expiration approaches the cert manager takes care of providing the correct certificate, generating new private keys and requesting new certificates. With the kubelet requesting certificates be signed as part of its boot sequence, and on an ongoing basis, certificate signing requests from the kubelet need to be auto approved to make cluster administration manageable.
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## Availability
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Kubernetes 1.19 is available for download on [GitHub](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/releases/tag/v1.19.0). To get started with Kubernetes, check out these [interactive tutorials](https://kubernetes.io/docs/tutorials/) or run local Kubernetes clusters using Docker container “nodes” with [KinD](https://kind.sigs.k8s.io/) (Kubernetes in Docker). You can also easily install 1.19 using [kubeadm](https://kubernetes.io/docs/setup/independent/create-cluster-kubeadm/).
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Kubernetes 1.19 is available for download on [GitHub](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/releases/tag/v1.19.0). To get started with Kubernetes, check out these [interactive tutorials](https://kubernetes.io/docs/tutorials/) or run local Kubernetes clusters using Docker container “nodes” with [KinD](https://kind.sigs.k8s.io/) (Kubernetes in Docker). You can also easily install 1.19 using [kubeadm](https://kubernetes.io/docs/setup/independent/create-cluster-kubeadm/).
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## Release Team
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This release is made possible through the efforts of hundreds of individuals who contributed both technical and non-technical content. Special thanks to the [release team](https://github.com/kubernetes/sig-release/blob/master/releases/release-1.19/release_team.md) led by Taylor Dolezal, Senior Developer Advocate at HashiCorp. The 34 release team members coordinated many aspects of the release, from documentation to testing, validation, and feature completeness.
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This release is made possible through the efforts of hundreds of individuals who contributed both technical and non-technical content. Special thanks to the [release team](https://github.com/kubernetes/sig-release/blob/master/releases/release-1.19/release_team.md) led by Taylor Dolezal, Senior Developer Advocate at HashiCorp. The 34 release team members coordinated many aspects of the release, from documentation to testing, validation, and feature completeness.
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As the Kubernetes community has grown, our release process represents an amazing demonstration of collaboration in open source software development. Kubernetes continues to gain new users at a rapid pace. This growth creates a positive feedback cycle where more contributors commit code creating a more vibrant ecosystem. Kubernetes has had over [49,000 individual contributors](https://k8s.devstats.cncf.io/d/24/overall-project-statistics?orgId=1) to date and an active community of more than 3,000 people.
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## Release Logo
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All of you inspired this Kubernetes 1.19 release logo! This release was a bit more of a marathon and a testament to when the world is a wild place, we can come together and do unbelievable things.
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All of you inspired this Kubernetes 1.19 release logo! This release was a bit more of a marathon and a testament to when the world is a wild place, we can come together and do unbelievable things.
"Accentuate the Paw-sitive" was chosen as the release theme because it captures the positive outlook that the release team had, despite the state of the world. The characters pictured in the 1.19 logo represent everyone's personalities on our release team, from emo to peppy, and beyond!
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"Accentuate the Paw-sitive" was chosen as the release theme because it captures the positive outlook that the release team had, despite the state of the world. The characters pictured in the 1.19 logo represent everyone's personalities on our release team, from emo to peppy, and beyond!
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About the designer: Hannabeth Lagerlof is a Visual Designer based in Los Angeles, California, and she has an extensive background in Environments and Graphic Design. Hannabeth creates art and user experiences that inspire connection. You can find Hannabeth on Twitter as @emanate_design.
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* The CNCF just concluded its very first Virtual KubeCon. All talks are [on-demand](https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe/) for anyone registered, it's not too late!
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* The [Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist](https://www.cncf.io/blog/2020/07/15/certified-kubernetes-security-specialist-cks-coming-in-november/) (CKS) coming in November! CKS focuses on cluster & system hardening, minimizing microservice vulnerabilities and the security of the supply chain.
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* CNCF published the second [State of Cloud Native Development](https://www.cncf.io/blog/2020/08/14/state-of-cloud-native-development/), showing the massively growing number of cloud native developer using container and serverless technology.
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*[Kubernetes.dev](https://www.kubernetes.dev), a Kubernetes contributor focused website has been launched. It brings the contributor documentation, resources and project event information into one central location.
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*[Kubernetes.dev](https://www.kubernetes.dev), a Kubernetes contributor focused website has been launched. It brings the contributor documentation, resources and project event information into one central location.
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## Project Velocity
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The [Kubernetes DevStats dashboard](https://k8s.devstats.cncf.io/d/12/dashboards?orgId=1) illustrates the breakdown of contributions from major company contributors, as well as an impressive set of preconfigured reports on everything from individual contributors to pull request lifecycle times. If you want to gather numbers, facts and figures from Kubernetes and the CNCF community it is the best place to start.
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The [Kubernetes DevStats dashboard](https://k8s.devstats.cncf.io/d/12/dashboards?orgId=1) illustrates the breakdown of contributions from major company contributors, as well as an impressive set of preconfigured reports on everything from individual contributors to pull request lifecycle times. If you want to gather numbers, facts and figures from Kubernetes and the CNCF community it is the best place to start.
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During this release cycle from April till August, 382 different companies and over 2,464 individuals contributed to Kubernetes. [Check out DevStats](https://k8s.devstats.cncf.io/d/11/companies-contributing-in-repository-groups?orgId=1&var-period=m&var-repogroup_name=All&from=1585692000000&to=1598392799000) to learn more about the overall velocity of the Kubernetes project and community.
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