NKP 2.12.0 Features and Enhancements
The following improvements are included in this release:
DKP is now NKP!
The former DKP product is now known as NKP. It has all the same features, just a new name. Because of the renaming of the product, the command line tool, dkp
, has been renamed to nkp
. It sill has all the same features and capabilities as before, just a new spelling.
Kubernetes 1.29.6 Support
NKP supports Kubernetes 1.29.6 and provides the latest features and security fixes in upstream Kubernetes. This release offers many enhancements (See https://github.com/orgs/kubernetes/projects/140/views/1 such as https://github.com/kubernetes/enhancements/issues/2595 and more.
To read more about the major features in the Kubernetes 1.29.6 release, see https://github.com/kubernetes/sig-release/blob/master/releases/release-1.28/README.md and https://kubernetes.io/blog/2023/08/15/kubernetes-v1-28-release .
Provision NKP on Nutanix Infrastructure - CAPX Support
Provisioning Nutanix Kubernetes Platform (NKP) on Nutanix infrastructure allows Nutanix customers to seamlessly leverage NKP as their Kubernetes management platform.
License Packaging
The new licensing packages offer 3 service tiers depending on your needs.
Starter License - Out-of-the-box functionality. Free with Nutanix Infrastructure. It contains basic Applications plus the Konvoy and Kommander components of NKP.
Pro License - Management and Workload clusters on the same infrastructure provider.
Ultimate License - Management and Workload clusters which can be on different infrastructures for a full enterprise experience.
NKP Starter ensures a seamless transition for existing NKE Classic customers to a more modern and scalable Kubernetes environment and provide the capability for life cycle management of workload clusters directly through the NKP UI.
NKP Pro and NKP Ultimate licenses will be available as add-on products on top of NCI, and they will both be available independently to run on other infrastructure like VMware, bare metal, or in the Cloud.
Existing DKP Essential and Enterprise licenses will continue to be supported in NKP 2.12.
Konvoy Image Builder v2.13.2
Features in the latest release of Konvoy Image Builder are designed to give you the latest enhancements. This version provides the list of features and bumps below.
Bumps NIVIDIA driver to new LTSB
Removes RHEL 7.9, RHEL 8.4 and CentOS 7.9
Updates Kubernetes to v1.29.6
Bumps containerd patch release to 1.6.33
Always downloads Kubernetes images