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This changelog lists all updates, improvements and new features our Engineering team develops for our Reference Solutions. These are rolled out automatically to all SRE-as-a-Service customers.

[ACTION REQUIRED] Upgraded cluster add-ons

11 Jul 2024 • Maintenance
 add-on  kubernetes  update  upgrade  component  eks

Update 2024-07-17: These changes have been rolled out to all clusters.

As part of our regular upgrade cycle, the following Kubernetes cluster components have been updated and have been rolled out to all our managed clusters. Highlight of this update is Grafana v11.1.0, which brings a lot of new features but is also the last version to support the deprecated AngularJS plugins. This is a reminder to please make sure to go through the Actions to take section!

Most other updates focus on resolve CVEs, bug fixes and general improvements. Click each link to go to the full upstream changelog.

Removals and deprecations:

  • We are removing support for the descheduler component while migrating clusters depending on it to karpenter.

Actions to take

An important change has come to Grafana where the use of AngularJS is being removed in favor of React. Support for AngularJS will be completely removed in Grafana 12, the next major release. As a result you will see warning messages in Grafana dashboards, helping you to identify which panels are using AngularJS plugins.

Grafana AngularJS dashboard warning

Many of our customers deploy their own custom dashboards, so we recommend you to check these for AngularJS plugin warnings and update them accordingly. For more information on how to do this, you can refer to the Grafana pages on this topic:

Often, you can just click the Try migration button in the warning and Grafana will auto-migrate your dashboard. After verifying the results, you can save your updated dashboard:

The most commonly used core plugins to change are Graph (old), Singlestat, Table (old), and Worldmap. While these can be auto-migrated, you can also update them to the newer versions, for example:

Some old custom plugins also have found there way as core plugins. For example you can replace grafana-piechart-panel with the build-in Pie Chart.

[!NOTE] While we have updated our own custom dashboards to use newer plugin versions, unfortunately there are a handfull of leftover dashboards, included in the upstream kube-prometheus-stack that we deploy and have not yet been updated. You can safely ignore the warnings for these dashboards for now. Affected dashboards are:

  • Alertmanager / Overview
  • Grafana / Overview
  • Node Exporter / MacOS
  • Node Exporter / Nodes
  • Node Exporter / USE Method / Cluster
  • Node Exporter / USE Method / Node
  • Prometheus / Overview

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