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I hope you're right, I haven't had time to look at the same warning for 6 months now. There was a hard deadline on it in February and it came and went. The backwards incompatible Kubernetes api updates are a PITA. I know they said "beta", but if you literally have a version field in your manifest format, why ever deprecate a way of configuring something? They could just have operators translate the configs automatically on the fly.

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>They could just have operators translate the configs automatically on the fly

How do they test that across the infinite number of permutations of configurations and deployments of K8S in the field though? It'll work for some people on the happy path, but it's really hard to maintain over time. Worse, it'll break randomly at some point in the future that is hard to predict, instead of at some publicly announced point in time where the breaking change is deployed (how it happened this time).

I don't know any software library that introduces breaking changes as often as kubernetes does. Devops used to be leaning more to stability then devs, it's weird. Kubernetes devops are very expensive so I guess they love being able to spend more time on their tool

This is sounding like OpenStack all over again. ;)

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