v0.1.12

This patch release includes new features, enhancements, and bug fixes.

The GA container image can be found at k8s.gcr.io/scl-image-builder/cluster-node-image-builder-amd64:v0.1.12

Removals 🚫

• After first being announced as deprecated in v0.1.7 (March, 2021), both the ESX builder for OVAs and the HAProxy OVA build target have been removed.

Features 🚀

• Add Rocky/RHEL 8 support for QEMU, AWS (#721, #801)
• Add support for OCI (Oracle Cloud Infrastructure) (#754)
• Add support for building images with VirtualBox (#699)
• Bump default containerd version (1.6.x) (#864, #822, #802, #776)
• Add support for Flatcar Azure gen2 images (#834)

Enhancements 📈

• Make sure Windows shows up in doc Table of Contents (#769)
• Bump mdBook to 0.4.14(#770)
• Use nssm for kubelet log rotation on Windows (#762)
• Make debug_tools for Windows Ansible role configurable (#751)
• Only provide Windows dockershim flags with docker below 1.24 (#783)
• Add ExtendVolumesPlugin cloubase-init plugin (auto-extend Windows volumes) (#781)
• Remove ESX builder for OVAs (#771)
• Update Rocky Linux from 8.4 to 8.5 (#792)
• Enable Ubuntu 20.04 in GCE nightly builds (#797)
• Bump default K8s version (#891, #798)
• Update crictl from 1.20.0 to 1.23.0 (#807)
• Add GOSS tests to GCE images (#810)
• Add option to compress capi/qemu images (#799)
• Allow user to specify temporary_security_group_source_cidrs (#812)
• Add containerd source client header for CAPZ (#805)
• Add skip_create_ami flag to amazon-ebs builder (#804)
• Separate CI logs into separate file per target (#736, #872)
• Replacing \var\lib\kubelet path to \etc\kubernetes on Windows (#785)
• ARM support on OCI (#821)
• Bump VMware Guestinfo datasource to 1.4.1 (#824)
• Install nfs-common on Azure images (#823)
• Windows: remove admin user when creating custom user (#832)
• allow overriding volume_type and throughput on AMI (#826)
• Install Azure Key Vault gMSA plugin if configured (#835)
• Disable Hyper-V KVP protocol daemon on GCE ubuntu images (#849)
• Add ability to supply global pip config file (#850)
• Make Flatcar build process more generic (#827)
• Remove deprecated HAProxy OVA (#869)
• Use com2 serial port for logging on Azure (#875)
• Quote multi-value fields in ansible-args.json (#876)
• ami: Use cloud-init only on supported distros (#874)
• Improve building Azure SIG images (#867)
• Expose security group and ssh variables in capi packer ami (#871)
• Set transparent huge pages to madvise (#868)
• Simplify conditional in Flatcar provisioner (#883)
• Make sure goss inpsect mode is disabled for OVA CI (#884)
• OVA: Remove downgrade of cloud-init, no longer install guestinfo datasource when not needed (#889)
• Update Azure scripts for new naming scheme (#878)
• Remove KUBERNETES_VERSION from Azure SKU template (#896)

Bug Fixes 🐛

• Ensure GOSS installation for QEMU and Raw builders (#768)
• Use Python3 in Windows build scripts (#772)
• Make sure Ansible Galaxy collections install even if Ansible already is present (#774)
• Fix make clean-raw command (#778)
• Make IP address retrieval more robust on Windows/vSphere (#742)
• Fix downgrade of cloud-init on Photon OVA (#786)
• Remove unnecessary default vagrant credentials (#788)
• Upgrade pip on CentOS 7 (#796)
• Fix creation of symlink to ctr (#761, #806)
• Remove unwanted boot order from containerd service definition (#758)
• Fix the location of the containerd state/root folders for Windows (#764)
• Make al-2 images immutable by disabling security updates on boot (#837)
• Fix custom role arguments passing on Windows (#825)
• Add SSH key to windows images (#839)
• Fix windows goss wrong provider on AWS (#843)
• Absolute in Windows kubelet don't work < 1.23 (#856)
• Fix tdnf install in firstboot role (#851)
• Modify permission of SSH folder on Windows (#813)
• Fix building Flatcar images for Flatcar stable releases after 3139.2.0 (#863)
• Fix QEMU Flatcar build (#829)
• Fix QEMU boot_media_path overrides (#880)
• Fix regression in Flatcar provisioner (#888)
• qemu,raw: Mask sshd during bootstrap (#893)