init`. If you don't want the kubelet to pull any images at `kubeadm init` time, for example if you don't have an internet connection, you can also run `kubeadm config images pull` before `kubeadm init` or side-load the images some other way (such as `docker load -i image.tar`). Having the images locally cached will result in no pull at runtime, which makes it possible to run without any internet connection. ([#64096](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/64096), [@luxas](https://github.com/luxas))...

* Refactor factory_test.go to use a fake k8s client. ([#69412](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/69412), [@tossmilestone](https://github.com/tossmilestone))
* kubeadm: fix a case where fetching a kubernetesVersion from the internet still happened even if some commands don't need it. ([#69645](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/69645), [@neolit123](https://github.com/neolit123))

- Kubeadm: now sets the host `OS` environment variables when executing `crictl` during image pulls. This fixed a bug where `*PROXY` environment variables did not affect `crictl` internet connectivity. ([#110134](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/110134), [@mk46](https://github.com/mk46))

  // kubelet.  If the kubelet is configured to verify the apiserver's TLS credentials, it does not mean the
  // connection to the real kubelet is vulnerable to a man in the middle attack (e.g. an attacker could not intercept
  // the actual log data coming from the real kubelet).
  // +optional
  optional bool insecureSkipTLSVerifyBackend = 9;
}

// PodOS defines the OS parameters of a pod.
message PodOS {

- GCE clusters will include some IP ranges that are not used on the public Internet in the list of non-masq IPs. Bumped ip-masq-agent version to v2.3.0 with flag `nomasq-all-reserved-ranges` turned on. ([#77458](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/77458), [@grayluck](https://github.com/grayluck))

Kubernetes version 1.9 includes new features and enhancements, as well as fixes to identified issues. The release notes contain a brief overview of the important changes introduced in this release. The content is organized by Special Interest Group ([SIG](https://github.com/kubernetes/community/blob/master/sig-list.md)).

For initial installations, see the [Setup topics](https://kubernetes.io/docs/setup/pick-right-solution/) in the Kubernetes documentation.

## Notable Features
Features for this release were tracked via the use of the [kubernetes/features](https://github.com/kubernetes/features) issues repo.  Each Feature issue is owned by a Special Interest Group from the [kubernetes/community](https://github.com/kubernetes/community/blob/master/sig-list.md).

### Autoscaling

* Add docs for [self-serving docs' (Swagger UI) static assets](https://fastapi.tiangolo.com/advanced/extending-openapi/#self-hosting-javascript-and-css-for-docs), e.g. to use the docs offline, or without Internet. Initial PR [#557](https://github.com/tiangolo/fastapi/pull/557) by [@svalouch](https://github.com/svalouch).

- The current version of the container image publicly exposed IP serving a /metrics endpoint to the Internet. The new version of the container image serves /metrics endpoint on a different port. ([#97621](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/97621), [@vbannai](https://github.com/vbannai)) [SIG Cloud Provider]

## Major Themes

Kubernetes is developed by community members whose work is organized into
[Special Interest Groups][]. For the 1.8 release, each SIG provides the
themes that guided their work.

[Special Interest Groups]: https://github.com/kubernetes/community/blob/master/sig-list.md

### SIG API Machinery