<story><title>Kubernetes 1.18</title><url>https://kubernetes.io/blog/2020/03/25/kubernetes-1-18-release-announcement/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>fosk</author><text>Although I understand the fear that many have of being left behind the technology curve by not having the time - or the chance - to run Kubernetes in their day to day work, we really must appreciate that Kubernetes really is the future of infrastructure. For those that are looking at Kubernetes with suspicion, it is a natural instinct to think of K8s as a threat to all the knowledge we have built in the past few years, but it doesn&amp;#x27;t have to be that way. So many things that we would have built ourselves (deployments, upgrades, monitoring, etc) can now be streamlined with K8s, and existing knowledge around those topics will just make our transition to Kubernetes faster (besides still being able to use most of our expertise within K8s anyways).&lt;p&gt;Managed solutions make K8s easy to use, while we can still benefit from being able to run out workloads left and right on any cloud vendor. In one word: portability. Which in the day and age of cloud vendor lock-in it is to be protected at all cost.&lt;p&gt;I know that some organizations allow to allocate time to explore new technologies and learn new practices. If your organization has no policy around this, it is worth try asking. Ultimately it will benefit the organization and the business as a whole, as they will be able to build a solid foundation to more rapidly transition and execute on their digital products. Kubernetes is good for business.</text></comment>
<story><title>Kubernetes 1.18</title><url>https://kubernetes.io/blog/2020/03/25/kubernetes-1-18-release-announcement/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>taywrobel</author><text>Reminder to everyone that unless you have a truly massive or complex system, you probably don’t need to run K8s, and will save yourself a ton of headaches avoiding it in favor of a more simple system or using a managed option.</text></comment>