v1.1.0 GA : Support for DS8000 family and Kubernetes v1.9

GA v1.1.0

The IBM block storage is supported for Kubernetes via IBM Spectrum Connect (3.4.0), previously known as IBM Spectrum Control Base Edition. Ubiquity communicates with the IBM storage systems through Spectrum Connect. Spectrum Connect creates a storage profile (for example, gold, silver or bronze) and makes it available for Kubernetes. For details about supported storage systems, refer to the latest Spectrum Connect release notes.

The IBM official solution for Kubernetes, based on the Ubiquity project, is referred to as IBM Storage Enabler for Containers. You can download the installation package and its documentation from IBM Fix Central. For details on the IBM Storage Enabler for Containers, see the relevant sections in the Spectrum Connect user guide.

Features introduced in this release for IBM block storage systems

• DS8K support
  In addition to Spectrum Accelerate and Spectrum Virtualize, Ubiquity supports DS8000 Family storage systems.
  (#186 and IBM/ubiquity-k8s#167)

• Kubernetes v1.9 support.
  Ubiquity supports the following Kubernetes versions: 1.6, 1.7, 1.8 and 1.9.

• IBM Spectrum Connect v3.4.0 support.
  Ubiquity supports IBM Spectrum Connect v3.4.0, previously known as IBM Spectrum Control Base Edition v3.3.0.

• Upgrade image to alpine 3.7
  The ubiquity, ubiquity-k8s-provisioner and ubiquity-k8s-flex images were upgraded to Alpine 3.7. The openssl and ca-certificates versions in the Ubiquity image were upgraded as well. (#189 and IBM/ubiquity-k8s#170)

• Reduced the FlexVolume driver logging noise 
  The irrelevant logging for GetVolumeName was silenced. (IBM/ubiquity-k8s#167)

• XIV volume discovery fix 
  Resolved an issue with XIV volume discovery in the FlexVolume driver. (#195)

This GA v1.1.0 is compatible with Ubiquity Kubernetes v1.1.0