New SKS features and support of Kubernetes 1.21.3 & 1.20.9
The latest Kubernetes releases, 1.21.3 and 1.20.9, are now available on SKS.
Additionally, we released several new features on our Kubernetes offering:
- Auto-upgrades: Configure the control plane of your clusters to be automatically upgraded to the latest patch release available for your Kubernetes minor version.
- Private networks support: Attach private networks to nodepools. Virtual machines belonging to these nodepools will automatically join the managed private networks. Use this feature to enable the communication between applications running on Kubernetes and applications running on regular virtual machines on your managed private network.
- Labels: Add labels to clusters and nodepools to organize them more easily. Nodepools labels are automatically propagated to the underlying instance pool and virtual machines.
Dedicated hypervisor support for nodepools: Users can run SKS nodepools on dedicated hypervisors by specifying the hypervisor group in a new "deploy-target" parameter on nodepools. This feature is also available for regular instance pools (not managed by SKS).
Instance prefix: By default, virtual machines (workers) for SKS are named "pool-<first 5 chars of the underlying instance pool id>-<5 random char>". Users can now control the prefix and replace "pool" by something else. This feature enables users to organize machines by name, which makes it easier to work with. It is also available in both nodepools and instance pools.
