vSphere Supervisor Services

LCI : Local Consumption Interface 9.0.1

What's New in 9.0.1

vSphere Kubernetes Service (VKS)

• LCI 9.0.1 supports features introduced in VKS 3.4 and VKS 3.3
• VKS 3.4 features
  • Ability to define custom labels and annotations for StorageClass instances that are synced from the Supervisor to the VKS cluster.
  • Efficient ClusterClass consumption across namespaces by referencing the ClusterClass from vmware-system-vks-public namespace.
  • Prevents the use of the deprecated TKC API to create Kubernetes 1.33 cluster, or upgrade an existing TKC cluster to Kubernetes release 1.33
  • Include both 'os-name' and 'os-version' annotations to the cluster configuration to enable Ubuntu Pro and FIPS during an Ubuntu based VKS cluster creation.
  • Adds support for VKr version 1.33
• VKS 3.3 features
  • Ability to configure Operating System FIPS and SSHD on the vSphere Kubernetes Service cluster nodes during the creation of the VKS cluster.
  • Ability to set the Ubuntu Pro Configuration to configure Ubuntu Pro subscription when using a Ubuntu based VKS cluster.
  • Provides a means to retire a TKC and continue managing existing VKS clusters using the cluster-api’s Cluster API.
  • Adds support for VKr version 1.32
• Allows the user to Upgrade an existing cluster by updating its VKr version.

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Known Issues and Limitations

• For 8.0U3 installations:

  • Occasionally, the plug-in may fail to load on the initial attempt. To check if the plug-in has loaded correctly, click the vSphere Client menu icon, then to Administration -> Client -> Plug-ins. Check the Status column of the VMware Local Consumption Interface plug-in, and in case you see a Plug-in Configuration with Reverse Proxy failed. message, reinstall the plug-in.
  • Following features for VKS are not supported:
    • Ability to retire a TKC and upgrade a TKC from VKr 1.32.x --> 1.33.x is not available.
    • Ability to configure a Windows node pool to use Group Managed Service Accounts.
    • Ability to upgrade a CAPI Cluster with atleast one Ubuntu worker nodes from VKr 1.32.x --> 1.33.x
    • ClusterClass 3.4.0 onwards, VKr 1.33.x and higher.

• You must uninstall version 1.0.x before using the 9.0.x version of LCI. Failure to do so will result in the interface not starting correctly when looking at the Resources tab for a namespace.

• The UI allows users to publish VKS cluster VMs that are currently deployed. The published image will not be usable and users should not leverage this feature for such VMs.

• In VKS IaaS plugin:

  • You must enter or modify a new value on any field in the dialog when adding a volume.
  • If you want to update the Cluster to newer ClusterClass post retiring its TKC, first remove "kubernetes.vmware.com/skip-auto-cc-rebase: ''" annotation by editing (and saving) the Cluster YAML via the YAML editor shown on click of "View Yaml" button, before proceeding to upgrade the Cluster.
  • To upgrade a Cluster to a VKR containing multiple Ubuntu OS versions, add 'os-version' field to the annotations by editing (and saving) the Cluster YAML via the YAML editor shown on click of "View Yaml" button, before proceeding to upgrade the Cluster.

• Resource updates will not automatically refresh in the UI. Users need to use the reload button to refresh the views on the resources.

• Previous release notes

Fixed Issues

• Storage classes in non stretch supervisor environments should be correctly populated to allow successful deployment of VM, VKS Clusters and Volumes.