Kubernetes 1.21 release

What’s New in Kubernetes 1.21

© 2020 Cloud Native Computing Foundation
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Anna Jung
1.21 Enhancements Lead
@antheajung
Presenters
Divya Mohan
1.21 Communications
Lead & Moderator
@Divya_Mohan02
Nabarun Pal
1.21 Release Lead
@theonlynabarun

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Agenda
★ 1.22 Release Updates
★ 1.21 Highlights
★ SIG Updates
★ Q&A

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Overview
★ 1.22 Release Timeline
○ Start Date: 26th of April 2021
■ Enhancements Freeze: 13th of May 2021 23:59 PDT
■ Code Freeze: 8th of July 2021 18:00 PDT
○ Target Release Date: 4th of August 2021
★ Kubernetes Release Cadence has changed to 3 releases
per year
○ Roughly one Minor release every 4 months
○ Enhance determinism and reduce risk

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Kubernetes 1.21 - Power to the Community
Logo Credits: Aravind Sekar / Behance

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Overview
★ 51 total enhancements tracked in 1.21
○ 13 Stable Enhancements
○ 15 Graduating to Beta
○ 21 Introduced Alpha features
○ 2 Deprecations

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★ CronJobs graduate to Stable
★ Immutable Secrets and ConfigMaps to Stable
★ IPv4/IPv6 dual-stack support
★ Graceful Node Shutdown
Major Themes!

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★ PersistentVolume Health Monitor
★ Reducing Kubernetes Build Maintenance
★ PodSecurityPolicy Deprecation
★ TopologyKey Deprecation
(more) Major Themes!

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Efficient watch resumption after kube-apiserver reboot
● Avoid tons of relists during kube-apiservers
rolling upgrades
● Avoid different instances of
kube-apiserver stuck with watchcache
synced to different resource versions for
extended period of time
Tracking Issue
Enhancement Proposal
Status: Stable
Status: Beta

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Apply for client-go's typed clients
• Introduces a type-safe programmatic
way to call server side apply from
client-go
• Client-go bundles a set of Apply
configurations
• Clears the path for server side apply to go
GA
Tracking Issue
Status: Beta

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Immutable label selectors for all namespaces
• Introduces a reserved label
“kubernetes.io/metadata.name” which
will be set to name of the namespace
• Adds the ability to select namespaces by
name reliably using traditional label
selector methods.
Tracking Issue
Status: Beta

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CronJobs graduate to Stable
● CronJobs graduated to Beta in
Kubernetes 1.21
● The old controllers and feature flags have
been removed Tracking Issue
Status: Beta
Status: Stable

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Graduate PodDisruptionBudget (PDB) to stable
● Makes PDBs mutable
● Address performance issues in the PDB
Controller
Tracking Issue
Status: Beta
Status: Stable

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TTL After Finished Controller
● Finished resources like `Jobs` and `Pods`
can accumulate in a cluster over time if
they are not cleaned periodically
● Make it easy to for the users to specify a
time-based clean up mechanism for
them
Tracking Issue
Status: Stable
Status: Beta

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Random Pod Selection on ReplicaSet Downscale
● Implements a randomized algorithm to
choose Pods to be killed on a ReplicaSet
downscale event
● Also keeps into consideration the existing
heuristics Tracking Issue
Status: Beta
Status: Alpha

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Indexed Job
● Provides users with support to run massively
parallel programs
● The Pods running can talk to each other with
the addition of a Headless Service
Tracking Issue
Status: Beta
Status: Alpha

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Suspend Jobs
● Adds a `suspend` boolean field to Job
specification
● It allows to suspend and resume jobs
● Useful for preserving existing Job
metadata like successful or failed
completions
Tracking Issue
Status: Stable
Status: Alpha

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ReplicaSet Pod Deletion Cost
● Influence the order of Pod deletion on
downscale events
● `controller.kubernetes.io/pod-deletion-cost`
can be provided as an annotation
● Pods with Lower pod deletion cost will be
deleted first
Tracking Issue
Status: Stable
Status: Alpha

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Pod Security Policy
● Deprecation starts in 1.21
● Planned to be removed in 1.25
● Replacement being worked on Tracking Issue
Status: Deprecated
Deprecation Blog

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External client-go credential providers
● Allow out-of-tree implementation
credential providers in client-go
● Ensure that credentials can be rotated
without restarting clients
● Eventually make client-go vendor neutral
by deprecating `gcp` and `azure`
authentication options
Tracking Issue
Status: Stable
Status: Beta

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Bound Service Account Tokens: separate RootCAConfigMap
from BoundServiceAccountTokenVolume
● Audience of issued JWTs would be bound
● Auto-configured service account tokens in
pods use projected tokens
Tracking Issue
Status: Stable
Status: Beta

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Bound Service Account Tokens: RootCAConfigMap to GA
● Publishes a `kube-root-ca.crt` ConfigMap to
every namespace
● This ConfigMap contains a CA bundle used for
verifying connections to the kube-apiserver Tracking Issue
Status: Stable

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Service Account signing key retrieval
● Allow authorized systems to discover the
information they need to authenticate
Kubernetes Service Account tokens
● Eventual goal is to make the Kubernetes API
Server OIDC compatible
Tracking Issue
Status: Stable

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Include kubectl command metadata in http request headers
Allows cluster admins to use this information for
telemetry and debugging
Tracking Issue
Status: Stable
Status: Alpha

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Default container behavior
Kubectl commands can consume this information
to decide the container to operate on
Tracking Issue
Status: Stable
Status: Alpha

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Leader Migration for Controller Managers
● Enables HA migration of in-tree to out-of-tree
cloud providers
● Defines a set of guidelines and processes Tracking Issue
Status: Stable
Status: Alpha

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Metrics Stability Enhancement
● Deprecation lifecycle is in place
to better handle deprecation of
stable metrics
● Deprecation notice in the
description text (Deprecated from
x.y) and a warning log
Tracking Issue
Status: Stable

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Structured logging
● Structured logging available for
Kubelet
Tracking Issue
Status: Alpha

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Expose metrics about resource requests and limits
that represent the pod model
● The `kube-scheduler` exposes
optional metrics that reports the
requested resources and the
desired limits of all running pods Tracking Issue
Status: Beta

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Defend against logging secrets via static analysis
● Static analysis to be used during
testing to prevent various types of
sensitive information from leaking
via logs Tracking Issue
Status: Beta

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Metric cardinality enforcement
● Turn off metrics to mitigate issue
where metrics causes memory
leaks
● Turn off metrics using
`--disabled-metrics`
● Set allow-list of label value for
metrics using `--allow-label-value`
Status: Alpha
Tracking Issue

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Add IPv4/IPv6 dual-stack support
● Dual stack mode to support
assigning both IPv4 and IPv6
enabled by default Tracking Issue
Status: Beta

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EndpointSlice API
● In the v1 API, `topology` field was
removed in favor of the
dedicated fields `nodeName`
and `zone`
● The Endpoints controller adds
annotation to indicate over
capacity for an Endpoints
resource with more than 1000
endpoints
Tracking Issue
Status: Stable

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Service Type=LoadBalancer Class
● Option to specify the class of a
load balancer implementation for
`LoadBalancer` type of Service
● Introduces field
`service.spec.loadBalancerClass`
in Service
Status: Alpha
Tracking Issue

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NetworkPolicy port range
● Option to enable
`NetworkPolicyEndpoint` to target
a range of ports instead of a
single port when setting a network
policy
● Introduces field `endPort` in
NetworkPolicy
Status: Alpha
Tracking Issue

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Service Internal Traffic Policy
● Introduce a new field
`spec.internalTrafficPolicy` in
Service that kube-proxy uses to
filter the endpoint it routes
● When set to `Cluster` or missing, all
endpoints are considered
● When set to `Local`, only node
local endpoints are considered
Status: Alpha
Tracking Issue

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Block service ExternalIPs via admission
● Allow users to disable the
`externalIPs` feature of Services
via `DenyServiceExternalIPs`
admission control
● Blocks deployment of any
resource that uses `externalIPs`
field
Tracking Issue
Status: Stable

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Namespace Scoped Ingress Class Parameters
● IngressClass parameters are
Namespace scoped resources
Status: Alpha
Tracking Issue

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Topology Aware Hints
● Provide hints to Cluster
components like kube-proxy to
influence how traffic to is routed
by keeping traffic within the zone
it originated from
● Activate feature by setting
annotation
`service.kubernetes.io/topology-a
ware-hints` to `auto`
Status: Alpha
Tracking Issue

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Topology aware routing of services
● Alpha topologyKeys API is now
deprecated in favor of topology
aware hints
Status: Deprecated
Tracking Issue

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Add sysctl support
● Support for Linux sysctl interface to
tune OS parameters for deployed
Pods
● Beta since 1.11, now stable Tracking Issue
Status: Stable

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Provide RunAsGroup feature for Containers in a
Pod
● Support `runAsGroup` field inside
the `securityContext` field in a
Pod
Status: Stable

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Memory Manager
● New component in Kubelet
ecosystem to guarantee memory
allocation for pods in the
Guaranteed QoS class
● single-NUMA and multi-NUMA
allocation strategies
Status: Alpha
Tracking Issue

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Graceful node shutdown
● `GracefulNodeShutdown`
enabled by default
● Kubelet detects node system
shutdown and gracefully
terminates pods running on the
node
Tracking Issue
Status: Beta

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Add downward API support for hugepages
● Pods are able to fetch information
on their hugepage requests and
limits via the downward API
● Supported if all workers in the
cluster are min 1.20 version
Tracking Issue
Status: Beta

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Remove cAdvisor json metrics from the Kubelet
● Deprecated since 1.18
● Removed permanently
Tracking Issue
Status: Stable

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Add configurable grace period to probes
● Introduce probe-level
`terminationGracePeriodSeconds`
● Override the pod-level
`terminationGracePeriodSeconds`
for liveness or startup termination,
and will be ignored for readiness
probes
Status: Alpha
Tracking Issue

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Extend podresources API to report allocatable
resources
● Addition to Kubelet pod resources
endpoint to allow third party
consumers to learn about the
compute resources allocated to a
Pod
● Introduces
`GetAllocatableResources`
endpoint
Status: Alpha
Tracking Issue

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CRIContainerLogRotation
● Enables container log rotation for
Container Runtime Interface (CRI)
container runtime
Status: Stable

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Honor Nominated node during the new scheduling
cycle
● Define a preferred node to speed
up scheduling
● Introduce a new field
`.status.nomindatedNodeName`
in Pod Tracking Issue
Status: Alpha

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Namespace selector for pod affinity
● Introduces `namespaceSelector`
to allow setting namespaces
dynamically for affinity term
● Introduces
`CrossNamespacePodAffinity`
that limits which namespaces are
allows to have pods with affinity
terms that cross namespaces
Tracking Issue
Status: Alpha

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Immutable Secrets and ConfigMaps
● Protects against inadvertent updates to
Secrets and ConfigMaps
● Kubelet doesn’t poll for such Secrets and
ConfigMaps resulting in performance
improvements Tracking Issue
Status: Beta
Status: Stable

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Persistent Volume Health Monitor
• Improves UX of handling underlying
storage issues in PersistentVolumes
• Early signal for impending storage failure
events preventing serious problems Tracking Issue
Status: Beta
Status: Alpha

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Storage Capacity Constraints for Pod Scheduling
• Prevents Pod creation getting stuck due
to unavailability of requested storage
• Schedule pods to nodes where the
requested storage capacity is available Tracking Issue
Status: Beta

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Generic Ephemeral Inline Volumes
● Extend Kubernetes with CSI drivers that
provide light-weight, local volumes
● New volume source, the so-called
EphemeralVolumeSource contains all
fields that are needed to create a
volume claim
● The Pod is the owner of the volume claim,
if the pod gets deleted the garbage
collector deletes also the volume
Status: Alpha
Tracking Issue
Status: Beta

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Prioritizing nodes based on volume capacity
● Optimize Volume resource usage
● Schedules pods on nodes where the
available capacity is close to requested
capacity
Status: Alpha
Tracking Issue

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Azure file in-tree to CSI driver migration
If you have the Azure File CSI
Driver, you can turn on the feature
gate CSIMigrationAzureFile to
enable the same
Status: Alpha
Tracking Issue
Status: Beta

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Service Account Token for CSI Driver
• Allow CSI driver to request
audience-bounded service account
tokens of pods from kubelet to
NodePublishVolume.
• Provide an option to re-execute
NodePublishVolume in a best-effort
manner.
Status: Alpha
Tracking Issue
Status: Beta

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Reducing Kubernetes Build Maintenance
● The project used to maintain multiple
build systems
● CI processes using Bazel moved to `make
build`
● Bazel based build and related tooling are
removed Tracking Issue
Status: Stable

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Release Team Shadow Program
★ Release Team Roles
○ Release Team Lead
○ Enhancements
○ CI Signal
○ Bug Triage
○ Docs
○ Release Notes
○ Communications
★ 1 lead : 3 - 5 shadows
★ ~4 months // weekly workload varies depending on team
★ Release Team Shadows Github repo

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