Kubernetes-1.4

http://blog.kubernetes.io/2016/09/kubernetes-1.4-making-it-easy-to-run-on-kuberentes-anywhere.html

• Cluster creation with two commands (kubeadm command)
  • limitations: AWS integration won’t work (ELB)
  • single master,
  • kubectl logs won’t work (use docker logs instead)
  • no easy way to generate kubeconfig (copy from master)
• simplified installation (4 packages with all the deps in all major linux distributions)
• expanded stateful application support
  • ScheduledJob = cron
  • init-containers (start 1+ containers before starting the main application)
  • Dynamic PVC Provisioning moved to Beta - expose multiple storage provisioners + users select them using Storage Class API ojbect
  • Stable Kubernetes Helm charts: Jenkins, MariaDB, MySQL
• Cluster Federation
  • Federated Replica Sets Beta (total federated replicas, relative weight / replica count in each region/cloud
  • Federated Services -> Beta (secrets, events and namespaces are added)
  • Federated Ingress -> Alpha for GCP (L7 globally load balanced)
• Container security support (Pod Security Policy)
• Infra enhancements
  • inter-pod affinity and anti-affinity
• Kubernetes Dashboard UI