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  • Highlights

    Highlights for the week ending December 10, 2021

    • flux-app v0.8.0 includes helm-controller fix to reduce memory usage by downgrading Helm from 3.7.1 to 3.6.3.
    • dex-app v1.21.0 contains update to the upstream version v2.30.2
  • Highlights

    Highlights for the week ending December 03, 2021

    In kubectl-gs we had to make the --release flag mandatory, which specifies the workload cluster release version in the template cluster and template nodepool subcommands.

  • Highlights

    Highlights for the week ending November 26, 2021

    Dex now supports more than one customer connector. If you plan to admit users from different identity providers to workload clusters, please give this a try and contact us in case you have questions.

    In the web UI, we fixed a problem that prevented users with legacy accounts to use the “Forgot password” form.

    We added an FAQ page on kubectl-gs as well as a page to help with migration from gsctl.

  • Highlights

    Highlights for the week ending November 19, 2021

    AWS LB Controller is now available! Find it in the managed apps catalog.

    oauth2-proxy version v7.2.0 is now available, as well as support for configuring extra arguments (per provider, or for all providers).

    In the Web UI, we now guide users to create a node pool after cluster creation.

    On AWS in the node pool creation UI - spot instances are now disabled by default and can be enabled by toggling “Enable spot instances” in the node pool creation form.

    Added --self-contained flag to kubectl-gs login command for workload clusters to allow the output of standalone kubeconfig file. This file can be passed on to other users without management cluster access.

    You can now specify a Service Account token when logging in, to help automation use cases.

    Added documentation on how to scale down workload clusters and silence alerts for a specified period of time. This can be used, for example, to limit workload clusters costs.

  • Highlights

    Highlights for the week ending November 12, 2021

    Flux v0.7.0 provides the Flux Toolkit version 0.21.0 and adds service discovery labels for Prometheus, so that metrics are scraped.

    In the web UI, we now display if a cluster has upgrades scheduled.

    kubectl gs login has been improved in several ways. Most importantly, the command now also supports using a service account token for authentication via the --token flag. This facilitates creation of workload cluster client certificates especially in automation. (Docs)

    Additionally, when creating a client certificate for a workload cluster, the flag --organization is now optional as long as the workload cluster name is unique.

    kubectl gs will also notify you when using an outdated plugin version. When that happens, the new kubectl gs selfupdate command allows to update the plugin to the latest version, for those not using Krew.

    For kubectl get apps.application.giantswarm.io (or just kubectl get apps) we changed the output columns for the App CRD. With that, for apps installed in workload clusters, you can now differentiate the installed version from the desired version.

    In automation, please make sure to use JSON or YAML output of kubectl get commands instead if plain text, so your implementation is not affected by a change like the above.

    If you are using Flux CD in the management cluster for your own good, you’ll want to check out the two new Grafana dashboards on Flux CD metrics which we added this week. Flux Cluster Stats showcases reconcilers and operator data, while Flux Control Plane will give you an insight into resource usage, number of API requests, and ongoing operation rates.

  • Highlights

    Highlights for the week ending November 5, 2021

    • Our web interface is now fully migrated to the Management API on AWS. So customers who already switched to single sign-on will notice some UI improvements.
    • gsctl adds more information about deprecated commands. Make sure to use the latest version.
  • Highlights

    Highlights for the week ending October 29, 2021

    • kubectl gs now offers a new command update app to simply upgrade an installed app to a newer version.
    • kubectl gs now also provides the capability to create client certificates for accessing workload clusters via the login command.
  • Highlights

    Highlights for the week ending October 15, 2021

    As part of our continuous effort to align our terminology with the Kubernetes project where appropriate, we phase out the term “key pair” and will instead use “client certificate” in the future. Expect this to land in the web UI and documentation soon. Commands in gsctl will not be affected by the change however.

    We have added changes to kubectl gs:

    • The template cluster and template nodepool commands for release v20.0.0 now use Management API for defaulting, making it the same across providers including Cluster API (for AWS, AWS using EKS, and for Azure).
  • Highlights

    Highlights for the week ending October 8, 2021

    nginx-ingress-controller-app v2.3.0 updates the controller image to upstream v1.0.3 to fix problems some users had with a special LUA module.

    Terminology update: what has been called “master nodes” by the Kubernetes project in the past is now called the Control plane or the control plane nodes. We are aligning with these changes in our documentation as well as the user interfaces. Note that we are making an exception for gsctl and the Rest API, which we plan to phase out in the future.

    We have several important changes in kubectl gs:

    • The template cluster and template nodepool commands will automatically use the namespace of the organization owning the cluster.
    • We added the command get releases to fetch information on cluster releases.
    • The template nodepool command now ensures the giantswarm.io/machine-pool labels for each worker node in a node pool, both on AWS and Azure.

    Users of gsctl will notice deprecation warnings in a growing number of commands with new releases. These will inform you on which kubectl gs command to check out as a replacement. If you are using gsctl in automation, these warnings are printed to STDERR and as we hope should not affect your processing of any STDOUT output.

  • Highlights

    Highlights for the week ending September 17, 2021

    Flux App v0.4.0 updates the flux toolkit version to upstream v0.17.1.

    We welcome two new Grafana dashboards:

    • Managed apps gives you an overview of the apps installed in your workload clusters, plus a extra information on available app updates.

    • AWS cluster status shows some key metrics on your workload clusters. Available only in AWS installations.

    With kubectl-gs v1.39.1, in the template cluster and template nodepool command, we replaced the flag --owner by --organization. And added the new command template organization for creating an Organization CR.

    In the web interface we improved the performance when browsing apps significantly.

    We updated all our documentation on ingress controllers: the basic guide on installing an ingress controller and all our advanced ingress docs.

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