- Support for k8s 1.6
- RBAC enabled by default
- etcd version selection (probably etcd3 by default for new clusters, etcd3 upgrade easy)
- Support for GCE
- Support for Google's Container Optimized OS (formerly known as GCI)
- Some support for bare-metal
- Some support for more cloud providers
- Some IAM integration
- Federation made easy
- Authentication made easy
- Integration with kubeadm
- CloudFormation integration on AWS
- Support for k8s 1.7
- kops server for better team scenarios