Kubernetes Release Notes

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October 2020

On Kubernetes 1.19 and later we now provision two fully-managed firewalls for each new Kubernetes cluster. One firewall manages the connection between worker nodes and master nodes, and the other manages connections between worker nodes and the public internet.

You can now apply taints to Kubernetes node pools using the DigitalOcean API. When you configure taints for a node pool, the taint automatically applies to all current nodes and any subsequently created nodes in the pool. For more information, see Kubernetes’ documentation on taints and tolerations.

The DigitalOcean Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) service is now available for all customers. VPC replaces the private networking service. Existing private networks will continue to function as normal but with the enhanced security and features of the VPC service. See the description of VPC features for more information.

We began the incremental release of the DigitalOcean Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) service. It will be available for all customers soon. VPC replaces the private networking service.

v1.14.0 of the DigitalOcean Terraform Provider is now available. This release includes a bug fix for projects containing many resources and exposes the Droplet IDs for individual nodes in Kubernetes clusters.

Released v1.38.0 of doctl, the official DigitalOcean CLI. This release adds the ability to set Kubernetes node pool labels as well as support for deleting multiple Kubernetes clusters with a single command.

DigitalOcean Kubernetes users can run our cluster linter before upgrading their cluster to a new minor version. The linter automatically finds issues with your cluster and links to recommended fixes.
DigitalOcean Container Registry has been released in Beta. To request early access, visit the homepage for Container Registry.
DigitalOcean Kubernetes has added native support for the Kubernetes Dashboard for all DOKS clusters.

6-hour and 1-day alert policies for Droplets and Kubernetes worker nodes have been deprecated. No new alert policies with these intervals can be created. Existing alert policies using these intervals will remain in place until 1 August 2019, at which point they will be modified to reflect a 1-hour interval.

DOKS customers will now be able to see the cost of their Kubernetes nodes and load balancers aggregated by cluster name within a Kubernetes clusters group on their invoice. Block storage volumes or block storage volume snapshots used in a DOKS cluster are not yet included in the cluster aggregation.

API support for Kubernetes Limited Availability was made publically available to all users who opt-in. This included API documentation and support in official clients (godo, doctl, droplet_kit).
The following updates were released for DigitalOcean Kubernetes:
- Any user can opt into Kubernetes during early availability via the control panel.
- Users can rename clusters.
- Users can edit tags associated with clusters and worker pool.
- A guided walkthrough helps users set up their kubectl and kubeconfig properly and provides example manifests to make it easier to get started.
- The node pool settings to add, remove, and scale node pools has been moved to the ‘Nodes’ tab for a more streamlined experience.
- The cluster provisioning status bar more accurately reflects the cluster creation progress.
- Users can view the estimated monthly cost for their clusters.
- Users can view a breakdown of total cluster capacity including CPU, Memory, Disk cluster wide.
- Users can create and manage Kubernetes clusters, worker pools, and configuration using doctl.

The minimum size for a Kubernetes node was changed to the 2 GB Memory / 1 vCPU plan.