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Welkin Cluster API

v0.7.0

Released 2025-06-23

Feature(s)

  • Added templating for using local volumes
  • Opened SSH access to Nodes
  • Added OpenStack floatingIP pool for stable egress
  • Added ability to configure custom NTP servers
  • Implemented Kubespray -> ClusterAPI NTP settings migration

Improvement(s)

  • Upgraded cert-manager chart to v1.17.1
  • Reconfigured the containerd registry mirror authentication method
  • Implemented marketplace solution for Azure
  • Unified registry mirror configuration for OpenStack and Azure
  • Upgraded to CAPI v1.10 and CAPO v1.12
  • Allowed skipping health monitor creation for OpenStack Load Balancers
  • Added support for migrating local volumes from Kubespray to capi
  • Added default NTP servers
  • Azure: added configuration options to set disk type and size

Other(s)

  • Removed all internal references from configuration and docs
  • Cleanup: purged all references to yq3
  • Cleanup: exposed affinity configuration for the local volume provisioner
  • Docs: added DR section for broken API server load balancer
  • Upgraded openstack-cloud-controller-manager to v2.32.0
  • Upgraded openstack-cinder-csi to v2.32.0
  • Fix: labeled CoreDNS PDB Helm release with type=application

v0.6.2

Released 2025-05-21

Others(s)

  • Remove all internal refs in the repository

v0.6.1

Released 2025-04-24

Improvement(s)

  • update VMs images with containerd v1.7.27

v0.6.0

Released 2025-04-04

Feature(s)

  • Added support for load balancers to use predefined floating IP addresses.
  • Added local volume provisioner chart.

Improvement(s)

  • Improved migration documentation to allow for less disruptive upgrades.
  • Images built for Elastx now uses VirtIO-SCSI, allowing for more than 25 volumes to be attached to a Node.

Upgraded

  • Bumped default Kubernetes version to v1.31.7.

v0.5.1

Released 2025-03-28

Improvement(s)

  • Improved migration documentation to allow for less disruptive upgrades

v0.5.0

Released 2025-02-05

Upgraded

  • Upgraded Ubuntu images to 24.04
  • Bumped default Kubernetes version to v1.30.9

v0.4.0

Released 2024-11-28

Features(s)

  • Azure environments now only use one resource group.

Improvement(s)

  • kube-system Pods are now prevented from scheduling on autoscaled Nodes, to ensure that the Nodes can be automatically scaled down again.

v0.3.0

Released 2024-08-23

Features(s)

  • Azure now has support for ReadWriteMany volumes. Use the StorageClass azurefile-nfs-premium-lrs.
  • Enabled unattended upgrades for security patching.

v0.2.0

Released 2024-06-28

Feature(s)

  • Add Azure Cloud as a infrastructure provider

v0.1.0

Released 2024-01-24

First stable release!

Compatibility Notice(s)

  • This version of Welkin Cluster API only supports Cleura and Elastx as infrastructure providers.