v5.0.0

New Features

• Added support for flexible worker group definitions
  • self-managed nodes
  • instance pools
  • cluster networks
  • virtual nodes
• Extensive sub-modules refactoring
• Added documentation using mdbook and GitHub pages
• Added support for basic and enhanced OKE Clusters
• Added support for Multus as an extension
• Added support for pre-emptible node pool configuration
• Added support for Resource Manager
• Added ability to override default cloud-init for worker nodes
• Added capacity reservation support for workers
• Added support for Oracle Linux 9 in Bastion and Operator
• Added support for SR-IOV device plugin extension, CNI plugin extension
• Added support for RDMA CNI plugin extension
• Added support for whereabouts IPAM plugin extension
• Added support for MPI operator
• Added support for node cycling
• Added support for node eviction
• Added support for agent config in worker nodes
• Added k9s to operator as an extension
• Added examples for reusability

Changes

• Change NSG from CIDR-based to NSW-chaining
• Improved null or missing value handling, sane defaults
• Improved worker node drain
• Upgraded cloud native packages to use OCNE 1.7
• Architecture, topology
• Separate IAM module for dynamic groups and policies
• Cluster and workers are now in separate submodules

Removed

• Calico CNI
• label prefix
• FSS submodule, kept networking

New Contributors

• @cwiggs made their first contribution in #700
• @SG60 made their first contribution in #796

Full Changelog: v4.5.9...v5.0.0