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    Container Service for Kubernetes:(Discontinued) Kubernetes 1.20 release notes

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    Container Service for Kubernetes:(Discontinued) Kubernetes 1.20 release notes

    Last Updated:Nov 20, 2024

    Container Service for Kubernetes (ACK) strictly conforms to the terms of the Certified Kubernetes Conformance Program. This topic lists the changes that ACK has made to support Kubernetes 1.20.

    Version upgrades

    All ACK components have been updated and optimized to support Kubernetes 1.20.

    Core component

    Version

    Description

    Kubernetes

    1.20.11

    • Before you update an ACK cluster to Kubernetes 1.20 or later, make sure that the required subject alternative names (SANs) are included in the self-signed server certificates of the admission webhooks in the cluster. For more information, see the sample Helm chart.

    • The selfLink field is deprecated. For more information, see Stop setting SelfLink in kube-apiserver.

      If your application uses selfLink, you must modify the setting in advance. If you have installed the open-source nfs-client-provisioner, you must update the component to a version that does not rely on selfLink.

    • By default, the node-role.kubernetes.io/control-plane label is added to the master nodes of ACK dedicated clusters. The node-role.kubernetes.io/master label is deprecated in Kubernetes versions later than 1.20.

    • If both FlexVolume and alicloud-nas-controller are deployed in your cluster, you must update the alicloud-nas-controller image to 1.14.8.17-7b898e5-aliyun or later before you update the Kubernetes version of your cluster to 1.20. FlexVolume is deprecated. We recommend that you upgrade from FlexVolume to Container Storage Interface (CSI). For more information, see Upgrade from FlexVolume to CSI.

    Docker Runtime

    19.03.5

    None

    Containerd Runtime

    1.4.4

    None

    etcd

    3.4.3

    None

    CoreDNS

    1.7.0

    • The deprecated upstream plug-in is no longer compatible. If the upstream plug-in is specified in the Corefile configurations, it will be automatically deleted in a secure way when CoreDNS is upgraded.

    • The names of metrics are updated. If your monitoring system is reliant on CoreDNS metrics, you must update the metric names. For more information, see Metric changes.

    NVIDIA Container Runtime

    3.4.1

    None

    Version details

    Resource changes and deprecation

    • The Docker runtime is deprecated. The Docker runtime is marked as deprecated in Kubernetes 1.20. However, you can continue using the Docker runtime in your clusters. The Docker runtime will not be supported by open source Kubernetes in later versions. This change does not affect container images. You can still build Docker images. For more information, see Dockershim Deprecation FAQ.

    • By default, the node-role.kubernetes.io/control-plane label is added to the master nodes of ACK dedicated clusters. The node-role.kubernetes.io/master label is deprecated in Kubernetes versions later than 1.20.

    • The selfLink field is deprecated. For more information, see Stop setting SelfLink in kube-apiserver.

    • The extensions/v1beta1 and networking.k8s.io/v1beta1 API versions are no longer used to manage Ingresses and IngressClasses, and will be deprecated in Kubernetes versions later than 1.22. Use networking.k8s.io/v1 instead.

      Note

      By default, the NGINX Ingress controller is installed in ACK clusters. This component enables you to use the networking.k8s.io/v1beta1 API version to manage Ingresses and IngressClasses.

    • The required SANs must be included in the self-signed server certificates of the admission webhooks in ACK clusters. Before you update an ACK cluster to Kubernetes 1.20 or later, make sure that the required SANs are included in the self-signed server certificates of the admission webhooks in the cluster. For more information, see the sample Helm chart.

    Feature upgrades

    • The issue that exec probes do not time out based on the timeout settings is fixed for kubelet. The default timeout period for exec probes is now 1 second, which may be short for some exec probes. If the timeout period is not specified for exec probes, we recommend that you specify the default timeout period.

    • The API Priority and Fairness feature (APF) is a feature of Kubernetes in public preview and is enabled by default. You can use this feature to limit and prioritize requests. For more information, see API Priority and Fairness.

    • By default, the EndpointSlice feature is enabled. In Kubernetes 1.19 and later, the EndpointSlice feature is automatically enabled by kube-proxy to support large-scale clusters. For more information, see EndpointSlices.

    • Immutable ConfigMaps and Secrets are supported. The immutable ConfigMaps and Secrets feature is in public preview. If a ConfigMap or Secret is set to immutable, it cannot be modified. This reduces the load on kube-apiserver. For more information, see Immutable ConfigMaps.

    Enhancements to Kubernetes 1.20

    Control plane improvements

    • Observability. Metrics are collected to monitor request operations and watch operations. This improves the observabilities of control plane components.

    • Stability. Protection is provided to defend etcd against excessive requests when a cluster is started. This improves system stability.

    • Performance optimizations. Indexes are added to accelerate the processing of list requests. This reduces the CPU usage of kube-apiserver.

    Enhancements of Windows containers

    • By default, the EndpointSlice feature is enabled.

    • Device plug-ins are supported. For more information, see Device plug-ins.

    Performance optimizations

    In Kubernetes 1.20.11, kube-proxy is compatible with Alibaba Cloud Linux 2, which has a kernel version of 4.19.91-23 or later. If you enable the IPVS mode, conn_reuse_mode is not set to 0. For more information, see IPVS.

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