Release v1.6.0

2022 Oct 03

NSM v1.6.0

NSM v1.6.0 is released via a set of example use cases.

Kubernetes Compatibility

NSM v1.6.0 has been successfully integration tested with Kubernetes versions:

  • v1.24.0
  • v1.23.0
  • v1.22.1
  • v1.21.1
  • v1.20.7
  • v1.19.11
  • v1.18.15

And also with Calico CNI plugin.

Public Cloud Capability

NSM v1.6.0 has been tested on

Changes since v1.5.0

OPA integration for registries services

Added the possibility to use OPA policies for registry services.

See more details

The next step is to add the possibility to be zero trust.

See at discussion

Add support for scaling k8s NSM registry

Improved NSM resiliency and availability via a new possibility to scale NSM k8s registry.

See more details

Add cluster-info examples

Added an interdomain example on selecting endpoints via k8s about api

Example

SR-IOV enablement on Equinix Metal n3 servers

Equinix Metal is planning to make SR-IOV a default configuration on our new n3 class of servers.

Improved integration-k8s-packet to use new n3 class of servers.

Simplify deployments-k8s examples

Simplified NSM examples via getting rid of creating dynamic files.

See more details

Public cluster testing via clusterctl

This makes our builds consistent and repeatable across a wide variety of infrastructure environments.

Mmigrate next repos to the clusterctl

  • integration-k8s-packet

Remove cloudtest usage

cloudtest tool is no longer used in single cluster testing.

Removed cloudtest usage from repos:

  • integration-k8s-aws
  • integration-k8s-gke
  • integration-k8s-aks

Now all setup/cleanup logic is extremely simple to be reproducible!

Show demos with L7 Meshes integration

Showed NSM+L7 mesh integrations:

On public working group calls!

Stability improvements / bug fixes

Resolved bugs: