update initialClusterVersion to 1.7.11-gke.1 (#269)

- set initialClusterVersion to 1.8.5-gke.0

- Fixes #268

py/deploy.py

@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ def setup(args):
                 ],
               },
           # TODO(jlewi): Stop pinning GKE version once 1.8 becomes the default.
-          "initialClusterVersion": "1.8.1-gke.1",
+          "initialClusterVersion": "1.8.5-gke.0",
       }
   }
 
@@ -70,6 +70,10 @@ def setup(args):
 
   util.setup_cluster(api_client)
 
+  # A None gcs_client should be passed to test_util.create_junit_xml_file
+  # unless chart.startswith("gs://"), e.g. https://storage.googleapis.com/...
+  gcs_client = None
+
   if chart.startswith("gs://"):
     remote = chart
     chart = os.path.join(tempfile.gettempdir(), os.path.basename(chart))