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Javid Mougamadou
Javid Mougamadou

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Kubernetes v1.20 Soon

New features

  • External credential provider for client-go

  • CronJob controller v2 is available through feature gate

  • PID Limits graduates to General Availability

  • API Priority and Fairness graduates to Beta

  • IPv4/IPv6 run

  • CSI Volume Snapshot graduates to General Availability

  • Non-recursive Volume Ownership (FSGroup) graduates to Beta

  • CSIDriver policy for FSGroup graduates to Beta

  • Security Improvements for CSI Drivers (Alpha)

  • Introducing Graceful Node Shutdown (Alpha

  • Runtime log sanitation

  • Pod resource metrics

  • Introducing RootCAConfigMap

  • kubectl debug graduates to Beta

  • Removing deprecated flags in kubeadm

  • RuntimeClass feature graduates to General Availability

Dockershim Deprecation

Maintaining dockershim has become a heavy burden on the Kubernetes maintainers. The CRI standard was created to reduce this burden and allow smooth interoperability of different container runtimes. Docker itself doesn't currently implement CRI, thus the problem.

Dockershim was always intended to be a temporary solution (hence the name: shim). You can read more about the community discussion and planning in the Dockershim Removal Kubernetes Enhancement Proposal.

Additionally, features that were largely incompatible with the dockershim, such as cgroups v2 and user namespaces are being implemented in these newer CRI runtimes. Removing support for the dockershim will allow further development in those areas.

Link

https://kubernetes.io/blog/2020/12/02/dockershim-faq/

https://kubernetes.io/docs/setup/release/notes/

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