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@hakman hakman released this 11 May 03:18
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Release notes for kOps 1.21 series

⚠ kOps 1.21 has not been released yet! ⚠

This is a document to gather the release notes prior to the release.

Significant changes

Service Account Issuer Discovery and AWS IAM Roles for Service Accounts (IRSA)

kOps now supports publishing an OIDC-compatible discovery document to an S3 bucket and configuring AWS to use it for IAM Roles for Service Accounts (IRSA).

See the Service Account Issuer Discovery documentation for more information.

Dedicated API Server nodes.

kOps now supports extending the control plane with dedicated apiserver nodes. These nodes run in dedicated instance groups that can be scaled horizontally.

In 1.21, this feature is behind a feature flag as node role name, labels, taints, and domains can change based on feedback from the community.

Warm Pool (AWS only)

A Warm Pool contains pre-initialized EC2 instances that can join the cluster significantly faster than regular instances. These instances run the kOps configuration process, pull known Docker images, and then shut down. When the ASG needs to scale out it will pull instances from the warm pool if any are available.

See the warm pool documentation for more information.

Other significant changes

  • Protokube now runs as a systemd process rather than a docker container.

  • Support for AWS launch configurations has been removed in favour of launch templates.

Breaking changes

  • Support for Kubernetes versions 1.13 and 1.14 has been removed.

Required Actions

Deprecations

  • Support for Kubernetes versions 1.15 and 1.16 are deprecated and will be removed in kOps 1.22.

  • The manifest based metrics server addon has been deprecated in favour of a configurable addon.

  • The manifest based cluster autoscaler addon has been deprecated in favour of a configurable addon.

  • The node-role.kubernetes.io/master and kubernetes.io/role labels are deprecated and will be removed from control plane nodes in kOps 1.22

  • Due to lack of maintainers, the Aliyun/Alibaba Cloud support has been deprecated. The current implementation will be left as-is until the implementation needs updates or otherwise becomes incompatible. At that point, it will be removed. We very much welcome anyone willing to contribute to this cloud provider.

Full change list since 1.21.0-alpha.3 release

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