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Release notes

1.16+ck2 Bugfix release

November 22, 2019 - charmed-kubernetes-316

Fixes

A list of bug fixes and other minor feature updates in this release can be found at https://launchpad.net/charmed-kubernetes/+milestone/1.16+ck2.

1.16+ck1 Bugfix release

October 4, 2019 - charmed-kubernetes-270

Fixes

A list of bug fixes and other minor feature updates in this release can be found at https://launchpad.net/charmed-kubernetes/+milestone/1.16+ck1.

1.16

September 27, 2019 - charmed-kubernetes-252

Before upgrading, please read the upgrade notes.

What's new

Kata Containers support

Beginning with Charmed Kubernetes 1.16, the Kata Containers runtime can be used with containerd to safely run insecure or untrusted pods. When enabled, Kata provides hypervisor isolation for pods that request it, while trusted pods can continue to run on a shared kernel via runc. For details on using Kata Containers with Charmed Kubernetes, consult the documentation.

AWS IAM support

Amazon AWS IAM authentication and authorisation is now supported via a subordinate charm. See AWS-IAM documentation for details on how to use AWS credentials to log in to your Charmed Kubernetes cluster.

SSL passthrough support

A new configuration parameter was added to the kubernetes-worker charm to enable ssl passthrough. This allows TLS termination to happen on the workload. Refer to the upstream documentation for more information.

Improved LXD support

LXD containers used for hosting Kubernetes components require some specific profile settings. These profiles are now embedded in the charms themselves and applied when deployed, dramatically simplifying the process of installing Charmed Kubernetes on a single machine. See the Local install documentation for the updated instructions.

Improved Prometheus/Grafana integration

The setup and configuration of Prometheus and Grafana has been significantly streamlined with new relations to allow the charms to manage the scraper job and dashboards. This means that monitoring can now be added by specifying a single overlay when deploying Charmed Kubernetes. Refer to the updated documentation for more information.

Improved OpenStack integration

The OpenStack Integrator charm can now replace the Kube API Load Balancer by providing a native OpenStack load balancer (Octavia or Neutron) to provide HA load balancing for the Kubernetes control plane. Refer to the updated documentation for more information.

Docker Registry with Containerd

The Docker registry charm can now be related directly to the Containerd runtime charm. Refer to the documentation for instructions on how to deploy the charm.

Renamed default container registry

The Canonical container image registry has a new, firewall-friendly name: image-registry.canonical.com:5000 is now rocks.canonical.com. The old URL is an alias for rocks and will continue to work. However, the default configuration for current charms has changed to the new URL.

Fixes

A list of bug fixes and other minor feature updates in this release can be found at https://launchpad.net/charmed-kubernetes/+milestone/1.16.

Special thanks to pierrop for contributing a fix to issue 1841965!

Known Issues

The Kubernetes Dashboard shipped with Charmed Kubernetes 1.16 is version 2.0.0-beta4. While unusual to ship a beta component with a stable release, in this case it was necessary, since the latest stable dashboard (v1.10.1) does not work with Kubernetes 1.16.

Please see this page for release notes of earlier versions.