KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2020

As Kubernetes is one of the biggest open-source projects worldwide, the creation of a new release can be an overwhelming topic. The major burden is not only to release a new version every three months, but also to provide stability and security fixes over the whole support period of a release. In this talk, we will cover the details behind the lifecycle of a Kubernetes release. The presentation will contain everything from assembling the Release Team before the actual cycle begins up to maintaining the release branches, which provide continuous patch releases to the community. The talk will outline the technical process of branch management by covering all of the necessary stages during the release cycle. We will also demonstrate our Release Engineering tooling and dive into the design decisions we’ve made as a group that shape the overall process.