- Integration testing now takes periodic Prometheus scrapes from the etcd server.
  There is a new script ,`hack/run-prometheus-on-etcd-scrapes.sh`, that runs a containerized Prometheus server against an archive of such scrapes. ([#106190](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/106190), [@MikeSpreitzer](https://github.com/MikeSpreitzer)) [SIG API Machinery and Testing]

  - Removed deprecated flag `--include-uninitialized`. ([#80337](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/80337), [@draveness](https://github.com/draveness))

- kubelet

  - the `--containerized` flag was deprecated in 1.14 and has been removed ([#80043](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/80043), [@dims](https://github.com/dims))

* Fix Forward chain default reject policy for IPVS proxier ([#62007](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/62007), [@m1093782566](https://github.com/m1093782566))
* fix nsenter GetFileType issue in containerized kubelet ([#62467](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/62467), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx))

SIG Storage is also introducing the following new storage features as alpha in Kubernetes 1.18:
- Windows CSI Support: Enabling containerized CSI node plugins in Windows via new [CSIProxy](https://github.com/kubernetes-csi/csi-proxy)

- Fixed race condition in GCE between containerized mounter setup in the kubelet. ([#112195](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/112195), [@mattcary](https://github.com/mattcary))

- The kubelet now creates an iptables chain named `KUBE-IPTABLES-HINT` in
  the `mangle` table. Containerized components that need to modify iptables
  rules in the host network namespace can use the existence of this chain
  to more-reliably determine whether the system is using iptables-legacy or

	internalLogIf(GlobalContext, err)

	return err == nil
}

// IsDCOS returns true if minio is running in DCOS.
func IsDCOS() bool {
	// http://mesos.apache.org/documentation/latest/docker-containerizer/
	// Mesos docker containerizer sets this value
	return env.Get("MESOS_CONTAINER_NAME", "") != ""
}

// IsKubernetes returns true if minio is running in kubernetes.
func IsKubernetes() bool {

* portfordwardtester: avoid data loss during send+close+exit ([#37103](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/37103), [@sttts](https://github.com/sttts))
* Enable containerized mounter only for nfs and glusterfs types ([#37990](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/37990), [@jingxu97](https://github.com/jingxu97))

- With this new stable feature, Kubernetes supports the scaling of containerized applications with Azure VMSS, including the ability to integrate it with cluster-autoscaler to automatically adjust the size of the Kubernetes clusters based on the same conditions.

### SIG-cli

- kubelet
  - The `beta.kubernetes.io/os` and `beta.kubernetes.io/arch` labels, deprecated since v1.14, are targeted for removal in v1.18.
  - The `--containerized` flag, deprecated since v1.14, will be removed in a future release.
  - cAdvisor json endpoints have been deprecated. ([#78504](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/78504), [@dashpole](https://github.com/dashpole))