Kubernetes integration release notesRSS

Effective Wednesday, 12 August 2020, Kubernetes integration v1.7 or lower will be deprecated. To avoid losing data, upgrade to the latest version. For more information, read this note or contact your account team.

Background

In order to provide the best possible experience for monitoring Kubernetes, we are merging the Kubernetes Cluster Explorer into New Relic, where you’ll enjoy all the latest features.

What is happening?

We will support Kubernetes integrations v1.7 or lower until Wednesday, 12 August 2020.

Starting on July 1st the Kubernetes Cluster Explorer will only be available at one.newrelic.com > All capabilities > Kubernetes Cluster Explorer. The Kubernetes Cluster Explorer will only be compatible with Kubernetes integrations v.1.8 and newer from Wednesday, August 12th.

Therefore in order to enjoy the latest features and to be fully compatible with the New Relic Kubernetes Cluster Explorer, you must upgrade your Kubernetes integration to the latest version.

What do you need to do?

Follow the instructions here to upgrade to the latest version of the Kubernetes integration.

What happens if you don’t make any changes to your account?

The Kubernetes integration will still send data to the New Relic platform, though the Kubernetes Cluster Explorer will not work for Clusters running Kubernetes integration versions v1.7 or older after Wednesday, 12 August. In other words, the integration will still send data, however you will be unable to view that data in the Cluster Explorer.

Notes

Follow standard procedures to install the New Relic integration for Kubernetes events.

Changelog

• Updated base image for the nri-kube-events container to alpine 3.11.
• Updated the version of the k8s-events-forwarder sidecar container from 1.5.31 to 1.11.24 of the Infrastructure agent.
• Updated the Deployment apiVersion from apps/v1beta2 to apps/v1.
• Updated the ClusterRoleBinding apiVersion from rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1beta1 to rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1 .
• Updated the ClusterRole apiVersion from rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1beta1 to rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1.

Notes

Follow standard procedures to install or update the New Relic integration for Kubernetes.

Changelog

• Changed: Upgraded the base image newrelic/infrastructure-bundle to v1.3.5. For more information on the release please see the New Relic Infrastructure Bundle release notes.

Notes

Follow standard procedures to install or update the New Relic integration for Kubernetes.

Changelog

• Added: new label combination to discover the Kubernetes controller manager:
  • app=controller-manager
  • controller-manager=true
• Changed: Upgraded the base image newrelic/infrastructure-bundle to v1.3.4. For more information on the release please see the New Relic Infrastructure Bundle release notes.

Notes

Follow standard procedures to install or update the New Relic integration for Kubernetes.

Changelog

• Changed: Upgraded the base image newrelic/infrastructure-bundle to v1.3.2. For more information on the release please see the New Relic Infrastructure Bundle release notes.

Notes

Follow standard procedures to install or update the New Relic integration for Kubernetes.

Changelog

• Changed: Upgraded the base image newrelic/infrastructure-bundle to v1.3.0. For more information on the release please see the New Relic Infrastructure Bundle release notes.

Notes

Follow standard procedures to install or update the New Relic integration for Kubernetes.

Changelog

• Added: Support for completely avoid querying Kube State Metrics. It's behind the DISABLE_KUBE_STATE_METRICS environment variable and its default value is false. Note that disabling this will imply missing metrics that are collected from KSM and possibly missing features in the Kubernetes Cluster Explorer. Please, refer to our official documentation on this configuration option for more information.

Notes

Follow standard procedures to install or update the New Relic integration for Kubernetes.

Changelog

• Added: support for querying Kube State Metrics (KSM) instances behind kube-rbac-proxy. This feature only works when paired with the label-based KSM discovery (see release notes of version 1.11.0 for more information). This adds two new environment variables that allow deeper configuration of the feature:
  • KUBE_STATE_METRICS_SCHEME: Whether the query should use the http or https protocols. Defaults to http and doesn't introduce a breaking change in behavior.
  • KUBE_STATE_METRICS_PORT: The port in which the kube-rbac-proxy instance is listening on. You can confirm this by describing your KSM pod. Defaults to 8080 and doesn't introduce a breaking change in behavior.
• Added: Added 4 new environment variables to explicitly set the control plane component base URLs. These variables can be used for Kubernetes configurations, such as OpenShift, that are different than the defaults defined in the section Discovery of master nodes and control plane components. See the section OpenShift 4.x Configuration for more information.
  • SCHEDULER_ENDPOINT_URL: The base URL of the scheduler pod metrics endpoint. The default is the empty string. In this case, the default configuration will be used.
  • ETCD_ENDPOINT_URL: The base URL of the ETCD pod metrics endpoint. The default is the empty string. In this case, the default configuration will be used.
  • CONTROLLER_MANAGER_ENDPOINT_URL: The base URL of the controller manager pod metrics endpoint. The default is the empty string. In this case, the default configuration will be used.
  • API_SERVER_ENDPOINT_URL: The base URL of the API server pod metrics endpoint. The default is the empty string. In this case, the default configuration will be used.
• Fixed: A bug preventing attributes named like selector.<label_name> from being added to some entries in the K8sServiceSample.
• Changed: The integration now uses newrelic/infrastructure-bundle as the base image. The tag used is for the version 1.2.0. For more information on this image please see the New Relic Infrastructure Bundle releases notes.

Notes

Follow standard procedures to install or update the New Relic integration for Kubernetes.

Changelog

• Changed: Internal changes in the code without any expected customer impact.