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Leadership Learnings from Kubernetes Releases

Nabarun Pal
July 23, 2022
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Leadership Learnings from Kubernetes Releases

Kubernetes releases are an elaborate song and dance running for around 4 months. The releases are done by a team of around 40 people distributed across the globe. A large number of technical components and the distributed nature of the team pose various challenges to the process.

In this talk, I will cover a detailed view of the parts of a Kubernetes release: the ingredients, the recipe and the product, and finally, the learnings from leading a release.

Nabarun Pal

July 23, 2022
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  1. Leadership learnings from
    Kubernetes releases
    Nabarun Pal
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  2. $ whoami
    • Kubernetes Maintainer
    • Senior Engineer at VMware
    • PyCon India Technical Lead
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  3. Chapter 1
    The People
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  4. Emeritus
    Adviser
    Release Lead
    Release Lead
    Shadows
    Enhancements
    Lead
    Enhancements
    Shadows
    CI Signal Lead
    CI Signal
    Shadows
    BugTriage
    Lead
    BugTriage
    Shadows
    Docs Lead
    Docs
    Shadows
    Release Notes
    Lead
    Release Notes
    Shadows
    Comms Lead
    Comms
    Shadows
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  5. Chapter 2
    The Process
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  8. ❯ krel
    krel - The Kubernetes Release toolbox
    krel is the new golang based tool for managing releases. Target of krel is to
    provide a toolkit for managing the different steps needed for creating
    Kubernetes Releases. This includes manually executed tasks, like the generation
    of the release notes during the release cycle, as well as automated tasks like
    pushing the Kubernetes release artifacts to the Google Cloud Storage.
    Each subcommand should contain its own self describing help output which
    clarifies its purpose
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  9. ❯ kpromo
    kpromo - Kubernetes project artifact promoter
    kpromo is a tool responsible for artifact promotion.
    It has two operation modes:
    - "run" - Execute a file promotion (formerly "promobot-files")
    - "manifest" - Generate/modify a file manifest to target for promotion
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  10. Cadence
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  11. Cadence
    • Every 3 months till 2019
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  12. Cadence
    • Every 3 months till 2019
    • Every 4 months since 2020
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  13. Support
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  14. Support
    • 12 months of Standard Support
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  15. Support
    • 12 months of Standard Support
    • 2 months of maintenance
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  16. Chapter 3
    The Challenges
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  17. Distributed Team
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  18. Large codebase
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  19. Quality
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  20. Timeline
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  21. Not Enough contributors
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  22. Chapter 4
    The Learnings
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  23. Overcommunicate
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  24. Communicate Asynchronously
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  25. Follow Lazy Consensus
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  26. Ensure Discipline
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  27. "Do, Delegate, Defer"
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  28. How can you help?
    Come join us in Kubernetes SIG Release!
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  29. How can you help?
    Come join us in Kubernetes SIG Release!
    • Mailing List: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/
    kubernetes-sig-release
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  30. How can you help?
    Come join us in Kubernetes SIG Release!
    • Mailing List: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/
    kubernetes-sig-release
    • Slack: #sig-release on Kubernetes Slack (slack.k8s.io)
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  31. Thank You!

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