This release supports more of Kubernetes API for pods and containers on Windows, including:

* Metrics for Pod, Container, Log filesystem
* The run_as_user security contexts
* Local persistent volumes and fstype for Azure disk

Improvements in Windows Server version 1803 also bring new storage functionality to Kubernetes v1.11, including:

* Volume mounts for ConfigMap and Secret

				forbidden("spec.validation.openAPIV3Schema"),
				// forbidden due to messageExpression exceeding per-expression cost limit
				forbidden("spec.validation.openAPIV3Schema.properties[f].x-kubernetes-validations[0].messageExpression"),
				// additional message indicated messageExpression's contribution to exceeding the per-CRD cost limit

interactions between pods and host resources, and manage the lifecycle
of pods scheduled on a node.

For the 1.8 release, SIG Node continued to focus
on a broad set of workload types, including hardware and performance
sensitive workloads such as data analytics and deep learning. The SIG also
delivered incremental improvements to node reliability.

    in v1.6.0 causes `kubeadm init` to hang. Please use v1.6.1, which fixes the issue.
  * All communication is now over TLS
  * Authorization plugins can be installed by kubeadm, including the new default of RBAC
  * The bootstrap token system now allows token management and expiration

### Auth

                  to what Ingress and Egress rules are present in the policy.  The
                  default is: \n - [ PolicyTypeIngress ], if there are no Egress rules
                  (including the case where there are   also no Ingress rules) \n
                  - [ PolicyTypeEgress ], if there are Egress rules but no Ingress
                  rules \n - [ PolicyTypeIngress, PolicyTypeEgress ], if there are

    * The body size limit does not apply to subresources like pods/proxy that proxy request content to another server.

- Azure global rate limit is switched to per-client. A set of new rate limit configure options are introduced, including routeRateLimit, SubnetsRateLimit, InterfaceRateLimit, RouteTableRateLimit, LoadBalancerRateLimit, PublicIPAddressRateLimit, SecurityGroupRateLimit, VirtualMachineRateLimit, StorageAccountRateLimit, DiskRateLimit, SnapshotRateLimit, VirtualMachineScaleSetRateLimit...

* Resolves issue with /readyz and /livez not including etcd and kms health checks ([#82713](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/82713), [@logicalhan](https://github.com/logicalhan))

Storage continued work to [enable migration of in-tree volume plugins](https://github.com/kubernetes/enhancements/issues/625) to the Container Storage Interface (CSI). SIG Storage worked on bringing CSI to feature parity with in-tree functionality, including functionality like resizing, inline volumes, and more. SIG Storage introduces new alpha functionality in CSI that doesn't exist in the Kubernetes Storage subsystem yet, like volume cloning.

Volume cloning enables users to specify another...