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What’s New for Embedded Cluster
Multi-node is GA for Embedded Cluster (Embedded Cluster 2.4.0). Multi-node installations with Embedded Clusters are now GA. With this GA release, we made several improvements to the Embedded Cluster multi-node experience, including:
- The process of joining nodes is now fully guided in the Admin Console UI. Users can click Add a node, copy the commands, and run them on a machine. Docs.
- Air gap bundles are no longer needed to join nodes in air gap installations. This makes multi-node air gap clusters much easier to set up because users don’t need to download a potentially large air gap bundle to every node—just the first node.
- A new join print-command command lets users get the necessary join commands without visiting the UI, which helps vendors automate multi-node cluster creation. This can be particularly useful when testing installations in multi-node clusters. Docs.
- Vendors can disable a new license field called Multi-node Cluster (Embedded Cluster only) to hide all multi-node features from the customer. This prevents distraction and mistakes for customers if multi-node is not supported. It also lets vendors control which customers can use multi-node. Docs.
For more information, see Embedded Cluster Is Now Highly Available: Multi-Node Support Reaches GA.
Use environment variables to set proxy information (Embedded Cluster 2.4.0). Users can now set the [.inline]http_proxy[.inline] or [.inline]HTTP_PROXY[.inline], [.inline]https_proxy[.inline] or [.inline]HTTPS_PROXY[.inline], and [.inline]no_proxy[.inline] or [.inline]NO_PROXY[.inline] environment variables to provide proxy details when deploying behind a proxy server. Docs.
What’s New for Compatibility Matrix
Added support for OpenShift (OKD) 4.18 and Kubernetes 1.33 on kind. For vendors supporting enterprise customers running OpenShift, Compatibility Matrix has added support for OKD 4.18 within days of upstream availability. Additionally, vendors looking to test their releases against the latest version of Kubernetes (1.33) can do so on kind clusters created with the Compatibility Matrix.
What’s New for the Replicated SDK
Improved secure supply chain capabilities for the SDK image (Replicated SDK 1.5.3). The Replicated SDK 1.5.3 extends the capabilities of our prior SBOM validation functionality, adds new image attestation functionality for enhanced security verification, ensures image integrity through cryptographic validation, and publishes a new verification script and necessary public keys to simplify the image verification process. Docs.
What’s New for Vendor Portal
Announcing Alpha support for the Enterprise Portal. For select vendors that want to provide Helm and Embedded Cluster installation experiences for their customers, the Enterprise Portal is now available as an Alpha product. The Enterprise Portal is the next generation of the Download Portal, providing a modern enterprise software unboxing experience where customers can view application install and update guides, get support from vendors, manage their team members and service accounts, and more. Additionally, the Enterprise Portal also gives vendors more visibility into their customer's installation and update attempts by sending insights back to the Vendor Portal. Docs.
Archive instances in the UI. Vendors can now archive inactive, air gap, and dev instances as archived in order to hide them from the UI. Archiving instances also hides them from Enterprise Portal users. To archive or unarchive an instance, select Archive Instance or Unarchive Instance on the instance detail page. To view a list of archived instances, enable the Show Archived Instances option on the Customers > Instances tab.
Faster air gap builds. As part of ongoing efforts to improve build speeds for air gap bundles, we changed some of the compression that we do to make air gap builds about three times faster. Additionally, Helm air gap builds now take seconds instead of waiting for the full build to finish.