Intro: CoreDNS

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CoreDNS is a plugin-based architecture DNS server that already ships as part of Kubernetes since 1.11 and aims to become the default in upcoming releases (targets mentioned around 1.13–1.14). Project metrics: 112 contributors, 16 maintainers, 29 public adopters and ~2,800 GitHub stars. Recent work: loop detection and cache plugins, reduced memory and faster kube plugin, AWS Route53 integration, Google Summer of Code projects (etcd-backed service registry), and a Cure53 security audit that fixed a cache‑spoofing bug in 1.1.1.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 7:17CoreDNS Status (2018)
3. 13:41CoreDNS Roadmap
4. 15:41CoreDNS: Contribution Welcome
5. 18:29CoreDNS: Service Discovery
6. 26:31CoreDNS for Service Discovery

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