2.5.0 Release Notes

Documentation

https://metal-k8s.readthedocs.io/en/2.5.0/

Upgrade Notes

Please follow the upgrade instructions here.

Customizations done on MetalK8s services or deployments, such as the number of replicas for specific services like Prometheus, Alertmanager and Grafana, will be lost after upgrading to 2.5.0. This issue is solved starting with this release, see instructions here.

Warning: Username and password customizations for K8s and Grafana will reset to default values once you upgrade to 2.5.0 or higher versions.

Changelog

Full list of closed issues is available here.

What's new

• MetalK8s 2.5.0 is now based on Kubernetes 1.16.8
• Rebrand of the MetalK8s UI
• Kubernetes API and Grafana are now configured to use OIDC, and Dex is
  deployed to serve as their trusted Identity Provider (see here to manage Dex)
• A new framework has been added to manage Services configuration, ensuring that node reboots, upgrades, downgrades or restore operations do not lead to loss of configuration (more details in the documentation)