Verrazzano release v1.7.0

Features

• Added support for managing Verrazzano installed on clusters that were provisioned using the cluster API.
• Added support for OKE lifecycle management on Rancher UI and Rancher APIs.
• Added OKEQuickCreate custom resource to support ease-of-use when creating OKE clusters on OCI.
• Added OCNEOCIQuickCreate custom resource to support ease-of-use when creating Oracle Cloud Native Environment clusters on OCI.
• Added support for Thanos Ruler and Compactor.
• Added support for Oracle Cloud Native Environment managed clusters on Azure.
• Decoupled the Cluster Management API from Rancher.
• Enabled lifecycle management of OKE clusters.

Enhancements:

• Updated Alertmanager to version 0.26.0.
• Added support and certified Domain on PV for WebLogic domains managed by Verrazzano.
• Now, Prometheus rules in the kube-prometheus-stack and Thanos Helm charts are enabled by default.
• Added Prometheus alerting rules for Verrazzano operators.
• Added a progress flag in the Verrazzano CLI, which shows components' installation progress in real time.
• Enabled status updates for Istio reconciled objects.
• Added support for Oracle Cloud Native Environment v1.7.
• Added the ability to enable security plug-ins in OpenSearch clusters.
• Now, Verrazzano uses OpenSearch operator-managed OpenSearch. To avoid any data loss during an upgrade, we advise you to make a backup before upgrading.

Component version updates:

• Argo CD v2.8.3
• Cluster API v.1.5.0
• Coherence Operator v3.2.11
• kube-state-metrics v2.10.0
• NGINX Prometheus Exporter v0.11.0
• Node Exporter v1.6.1
• Prometheus Pushgateway v1.6.2

Components added:

• Cluster-API-Verrazzano-Addon v1.0.0
• Dex v2.37.0
• OpenSearch Operator v2.4.0

Known Issues

• When updating the node pool of a cluster API based OKE cluster, the console may report the cluster state as 'Active' prematurely.