Enhancements¶
This section outlines new features and enhancements introduced in the Mirantis Container Cloud release 2.9.0. For the list of enhancements in the Cluster release 5.16.0 and Cluster release 6.16.0 that are supported by the Container Cloud release 2.9.0, see the 5.16.0 and 6.16.0 sections.
Container Cloud clusters based on Equinix Metal¶
Introduced support for the Equinix Metal cloud provider. Equinix Metal integrates a fully automated bare metal infrastructure at software speed.
Now, you can deploy managed clusters that are based on the Equinix Metal management or regional clusters or on top of the AWS-based management cluster.
Using the Equinix Metal management cluster, you can also deploy additional regional clusters that are based the OpenStack, AWS, vSphere, or Equinix Metal cloud providers to deploy and operate managed clusters of different provider types or configurations from a single Container Cloud management plane.
The Equinix Metal based managed clusters also include a Ceph cluster that can be configured either automatically or manually before or after the cluster deployment.
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Integration of Container Cloud to Lens¶
Implemented the Container Cloud integration to Lens. Using the Container Cloud web UI and the Lens extension, you can now add any type of Container Cloud clusters to Lens for further inspection and monitoring.
The following options are now available in the More action icon menu of each deployed cluster:
Add cluster to Lens
Open cluster in Lens
New bootstrap node for additional regional clusters¶
Added the possibility to use a new bootstrap node for deployment of additional regional clusters. You can now deploy regional clusters not only on the bootstrap node where you originally deployed the related management cluster, but also on a new node.
TLS certificates for management cluster applications¶
Implemented the possibility to configure TLS certificates for Keycloak and Container Cloud web UI on new management clusters.
Caution
Adding of TLS certificates for Keycloak is not supported on existing clusters deployed using the Container Cloud release earlier than 2.9.0.
SSH keys management for mcc-user¶
Implemented management of SSH keys only for the universal mcc-user that is
now applicable to any Container Cloud provider and node type,
including Bastion. All existing SSH user names, such as ubuntu,
cloud-user for the vSphere-based clusters, are replaced with the universal
mcc-user user name.
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VMware vSphere resources controller¶
Implemented the vsphereResources controller to represent the vSphere
resources as Kubernetes objects and manage them using the Container Cloud
web UI.
You can now use the drop-down list fields to filter results by a short resource name during a cluster and machine creation. The drop-down lists for the following vSphere resources paths are added to the Container Cloud web UI:
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New format of L2 templates¶
Updated the L2 templates format for baremetal-based deployments.
In the new format, l2template:status:npTemplate is used
directly during provisioning. Therefore, a hardware node obtains and applies
a complete network configuration during the first system boot.
Before the Container Cloud 2.9.0, you were able to configure any network
interface except the default provisioning NIC for the PXE and LCM
managed to manager connection.
Since Container Cloud 2.9.0, you can configure any interface if required.
Caution
Deploy any new node using the L2 template of the new format.
Replace all deprecated L2 templates created before Container Cloud 2.9.0 with the L2 templates of new format.
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