Kubernetes 1.17 Released

Kubernetes development team announced the release of Kubernetes 1.17, which is a container orchestration tool.

Kubernetes 1.17 is the latest version following version 1.16, which was released in November. This is the fourth and final release of 2019 with 22 additional enhancements, and 14 were elevated to stable, 4 were moved to beta, and 4 to alpha.

The Cloud Provider Labels, which was introduced in version 1.12, has been moved to GA. When nodes and volumes are created, they are labeled based on the cloud provider of Kubernetes cluster, and information such as zones and regions can be described. Used by Kubernetes components, labels are availed to support some features like scheduler.

Kubernetes Volume Snapshot is now a beta, originally included in version 1.12 as an alpha. Using the feature to create persistent storage volume, it enables to supply new volume or to rollback an existing volume to the previous state.

The migration feature of Container Storage Interface (CSI), a volume plugin, is now moved to beta. Responding to the increasing number of CSI corresponding drivers, now in-tree plugins such as kubernetes.io/gce-pd or kubernetes.io/aws-ebs can be replaced with corresponding CSI driver. Also, CSI topology support has reached GA.

Another major change is that now it offers support for IPv4/IPv6 dual-stack. Kubernetes 1.17 is available on the project’s website.

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