CloudOps for Kubernetes

3.4.x

Release Notes

3.4.0

New Features

  • CLOUD-2793: Updated the Amazon EKS Kubernetes version to 1.31. For more information on the changes, see End of Support for EKS 1.29.
  • CLOUD-3062: Added the ability to identify the currently installed CloudOps for Kubernetes version as well as the version used to configure some AWS resources. For more information, see Identifying your CloudOps Version.
  • CLOUD-3006: Updated the Kubernetes cluster nodes to Amazon Linux 2023. By default, when rebuilding the cluster node groups, the latest Amazon Linux 2023 EKS Amazon Machine Image (AMI) will be used by the new cluster members.
  • CLOUD-3131: Added a page to the documentation describing how to update CloudOps for Kubernetes container images. See Update CloudOps for Kubernetes Container Images.
  • SUP-3891: Added support for Commerce application-specific Java Virtual Machine (JVM) arguments. With this change you can now specify additional JVM arguments for the Commerce applications. To enable this you must also consume, and build your application container images with, a release of the Elastic Path Docker project that contains the corresponding SUP-3891 changes.
  • CLOUD-3205: Updated the Maven memory values used in the following Commerce build jobs: build-deployment-package, run-cortex-system-tests and run-select-commerce-tests. The JVM maximum heap size was increased from 2048m to the recommended 4000m, and native memory requests for the maven containers was increased from 5632Mi to 8Gi.
  • CLOUD-3210: Exposed parameters in the docker-compose.yml file that can be used to change the Jenkins administrator password. For more information on changing the Jenkins administrator password, see Login Credentials.
  • CLOUD-3238: Updated the default EC2 instance type from c5.2xlarge to c6a.2xlarge. Amazon's on-demand pricing for c6a.2xlarge instances is less than the on-demand pricing for c5.2xlarge instances. Self Managed Commerce build times and Self Managed Commerce application performance are both improved with the c6a.2xlarge instances as compared to c5.2xlarge instances. For information about changing the cluster instance type, see Update EKS Node Groups.
  • CLOUD-3246: Added permissions to the NodeGroupPolicy so that authorized users can access the EKS cluster members using AWS Session Manager. For information about using Session Manager, see Access and Tools.

Bug Fixes

  • CLOUD-2949: Updated the Maven Jenkins agent Dockerfile to resolve intermittent failures in the phantomjs download step.
  • SUP-3907: Updated the ModSecurity Web Application Firewall rules to resolve an issue where special characters in password and cookie header fields are blocked.
  • CLOUD-3237: Specified a missing Terraform dependency related to cert-manager configuration, to improve the reliability of the CloudOps for Kubernetes setup process.
  • SUP-4272: Added back the version line to the docker-compose.yml file to maintain backwards compatibility with older versions of Docker.
  • CLOUD-3269: Removed a line from the nexus.xml template file that had no current function but caused additional and unnecessary output in the Nexus log. The change will take effect on newly-deployed Nexus services.

Deprecations & Removals

  • CLOUD-3240: Support for Cilium is deprecated and will be removed in a future CloudOps for Kubernetes release.
  • CLOUD-2817: Obsolete upgrade tools were removed. These tools were previously used when upgrading older CloudOps for Kubernetes releases and are no longer needed.

See Deprecations and Removals.

Upgrade Instructions

For upgrade instructions, see Upgrading CloudOps for Kubernetes.

Last updated on 11/8/2024