### SIG Scalability

SIG Scalability has mostly focused on stability and deflaking our tests, investing into framework for writing scalability tests (ClusterLoader v2) with a goal to migrate all tests to it by the end of 2018 and on the work towards extending definition of Kubernetes scalability by providing more/better user-friendly SLIs/SLOs.

### SIG Scheduling

- The certificate signer no longer accepts ca.key passwords via the `CFSSL_CA_PK_PASSWORD` environment variable. This capability was not prompted by user request, never advertised, and recommended against in the security audit. ([#84677](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/84677), [@mikedanese](https://github.com/mikedanese))

### SIG Scalability

[SIG Scalability][] is responsible for scalability testing, measuring and
improving system performance, and answering questions related to scalability.

For the 1.8 release, SIG Scalability focused on automating large cluster
scalability testing in a continuous integration (CI) environment. The SIG
defined a concrete process for scalability testing, created

- Add metric etcd_lease_object_counts for kube-apiserver to observe max objects attached to a single etcd lease. ([#97480](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/97480), [@lingsamuel](https://github.com/lingsamuel)) [SIG API Machinery, Instrumentation and Scalability]

## Deprecations

This section provides an overview of deprecated API versions, options, flags, and arguments. Deprecated means that we intend to remove the capability from a future release. After removal, the capability will no longer work. The sections are organized by SIGs.

### **API Machinery**

have been given priority for 1.15.

kubeadm, the cluster lifecycle building block, continues to receive features and stability work required for bootstrapping production clusters efficiently. kubeadm has promoted high availability (HA) capability to beta, allowing users to use the familiar `kubeadm init` and `kubeadm join` commands to [configure and deploy an HA control plane](https://kubernetes.io/docs/setup/production-environment/tools/kubeadm/high-availability/). An entire new test suite...

* In-tree support for openstack credentials is now deprecated. please use the "client-keystone-auth" from the cloud-provider-openstack repository. details on how to use this new capability is documented [here](https://github.com/kubernetes/cloud-provider-openstack/blob/master/docs/using-client-keystone-auth.md) ([#64346](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/64346), [@dims](https://github.com/dims))

- Introduced the Node Declared Features capability (alpha), which includes:
  - A new `Node.Status.DeclaredFeatures` field for publishing node-specific features.
  - A `component-helpers` library for feature registration and inference.

    - [CLI](#cli-1)
    - [Cluster Lifecycle](#cluster-lifecycle)
    - [GCP](#gcp)
    - [Instrumentation](#instrumentation)
    - [Node](#node-1)
    - [OpenStack](#openstack-1)
    - [Scalability](#scalability)
    - [Storage](#storage-1)
    - [Windows](#windows-1)
    - [Autoscaling](#autoscaling)
    - [API-Machinery](#api-machinery-1)
    - [Network](#network-1)
    - [Azure](#azure-1)

* **[stable]** Volume plugin for ScaleIO enabling pods to seamlessly access and use data stored on Dell EMC ScaleIO volumes.
* **[stable]** Volume plugin for Portworx added capability to use [Portworx](http://www.portworx.com) as a storage provider for Kubernetes clusters. Portworx pools server capacity and turns servers or cloud instances into converged, highly available compute and storage nodes.