4.7

Release notes for 4.7:

Highlights

• upgraded operator to Operator SDK v1.0
• support for custom payload images (dev and test only feature)
• Bugfix "increase memory limits and requests for manager container", PR #42
• use digests instead of tags for container images to allow offline use of the operator

Tested features

• Installation of Kata with the operator
• Deploy of a pod using the Kata runtime
• Deletion of pod that uses the Kata runtime
• Uninstall of Kata with the operator

Tested configurations

• Openshift on 4.7 on Google Cloud Platform, 3 masters/3workers, 3 nodes master/worker combined
• Openshift on 4.7 in a disconnected cluster

Note:Installing on other infrastructures or baremetal should work as long as nested VMs are enabled

Known issues:

• Benign errors in kata-operator logs
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1890509
• Uninstall daemonset is not removed when kataconfig CR is deleted, leaving system in ambiguous state
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1925597

Full list of changes

v4.7 (02/12/2021)

• clean up configmap example - @jensfr
• for bundle build use --squash-all and --no-cache - @jensfr
• update daemon container url - @jensfr
• add deploy.sh for simpler deployment - @jensfr
• format example yaml correctly - @jensfr
• make sure images are pushed as schema v2 - @jensfr
• daemon: use env variables to download payload from private registry - @jensfr
• controller: add environment variables for daemon secret - @jensfr
• Revert "add test for installation" - @jensfr
• set imagePullPolicy to Always for controller container - @jensfr
• controllers: Prevent host devices from being passed to privileged containers - @fidencio
• add test for installation - @jensfr
• use digests for kube-rbac-proxy and kata-operator-daemon images - @jensfr
• add support for master/worker combined nodes - @jensfr
• increase memory limits and requests for manager container - @jensfr
• add example catalogsource - @jensfr
• Prevent multile KataConfig CRs - @harche
• use payload image url from environment variable - @jensfr
• openshift: allow custom payload images for development - @jensfr
• fix README, change release-4.7 to master branch - @jensfr
• Create PULL_REQUEST_TEMPLATE.md - @jensfr
• Create ISSUE_TEMPLATE.md - @jensfr
• openshift: add PodOverhead to RuntimeClass definition - @jensfr
• Fix description and URLs of containers in README - @jensfr
• change kata-operator-daemon container image - @jensfr
• Changes to make the kata install daemon work with operator sdk 1.0 - @harche
• fix runtime class in example-fedora.yaml - @jensfr
• use official container image in README - @jensfr
• fix command run at preStop event - @jensfr
• Update README.md - @jensfr
• Add hint to release-4.6 in README - @jensfr
• schedule controller only on master nodes - @harche
• set the operator version - @harche
• add license file - @harche
• Add build from source instructions in README - @harche
• remove operator yaml - @harche
• upgrade operator sdk to 1.0 - @harche