As part of our regular upgrade cycle, the following Kubernetes cluster components have been updated. And it’s a big one! We’ve already rolled these out to all non-production clusters. Production upgrades are scheduled to happen on Monday 16/05 during business hours. As usual, no workload interuptions are expected.
Highlights of this upgrade cycle are upgrades for KEDA, Fluent-Bit and Loki.
AKS
EKS
- aws-efs-csi-driver 1.3.6 -> 1.3.8
- aws-load-balancer-controller 2.3.1 -> 2.4.1
- The controller will no longer require permissions for all Secret resources
- Also required for our K8s 1.22 preparation
- aws-node-termination-handler 1.16.1 -> 1.16.3
- aws-vpc-cni 1.10.2 -> 1.11.0
- secrets-store-csi-driver 1.0.0 -> 1.1.2
- Fix several CVEs
Shared Addons (AKS & EKS)
Click each link to go to the full upstream changelog.
- actions-runner-controller 0.20.3 -> 0.22.3
- Many improvements focusing on scalability and reliablity of runners
- alertmanager 0.23.0 -> 0.24.0
- cert-manager 1.7.1 -> 1.8.0
- Wider support for Kubernetes server-side-apply
- Exponential backoff after a failed issuance
- dex 2.31.0 -> 2.31.1
- external-dns 0.10.2 -> 0.11.1
- fluent-bit 1.8.10 -> 1.9.3
- Primary focus has been around scalability and performance, metrics and overall usability
- grafana 8.4.5 -> 8.5.2
- Many new improvements and features. Make sure to check the linked upstream changelog
- keda 2.6.1 -> 2.7.1
- Introduction of pausing autoscaling through annotations for
ScaledObject - Introduction of AWS DynamoDB, Azure Data Explorer, GCP Stackdriver & GCP Storage scalers
- Introduction of Azure Key Vault as trigger authentication provider
- Deprecation of
metadata.typein favor of the globalmetricTypefor CPU, Memory, Datadog scalers
- Introduction of pausing autoscaling through annotations for
- loki 2.4.2 -> 2.5.0
- Greatly improves the performance of common regex uses cases in Loki
- Binary operations are now significantly faster
- A new schema which uses more path prefixes to avoid rate limits on S3 (we’re switching to this schema on 2022-06-01)
- More parallelism by default
- prometheus 2.33.4 -> 2.35.0
- prometheus-blackbox-exporter 0.19.0 -> 0.20.0
- prometheus-operator 0.54.1 -> 0.56.2