Release v1.2.8

Rancher Kubernetes Engine (RKE) is a CNCF-certified Kubernetes distribution that runs entirely within Docker containers. It works on bare-metal and virtualized servers. With RKE, the installation and operation of Kubernetes is both simplified and easily automated, and it’s entirely independent of the operating system and platform you’re running.

Enhancements

• Introduced new Kubernetes images v1.20.6-rancher1-1, v1.19.10-rancher1-1, v1.18.18-rancher1-2 and v1.17.17-rancher2-3
• Kubeconfig and state files have file permissions set to 0600
• The S3 Access Key and Secret Key are passed as environment variables to the etcd-rolling-snapshots container

Known Major Issues

• In clusters where cloud_provider is configured, and either address or internal_address does not contain a valid IP address (e.g. hostname or FQDN), kube-proxy will fail to start. [#1725]

Kubernetes Versions

Each version of RKE has a specific list of supported Kubernetes versions. If you want to use a different version than listed below, you will need to update Kubernetes using the system images option in your cluster.yml.

New Images in v1.20.6-rancher1-1, v1.19.10-rancher1-1, v1.18.18-rancher1-2 and v1.17.17-rancher2-3

Updated Hyperkube Image based on k8s versions

• rancher/hyperkube:v1.20.6-rancher1
• rancher/hyperkube:v1.19.10-rancher1
• rancher/hyperkube:v1.18.18-rancher1
• rancher/hyperkube:v1.17.17-rancher2