kops/docs/releases/1.26-NOTES.md

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Release notes for kOps 1.26 series

⚠ kOps 1.26 has not been released yet! ⚠

This is a document to gather the release notes prior to the release.

Significant changes

  • The default networking provider for new clusters is now Cilium.

AWS only

  • Bastions are now fronted by a Network Load Balancer.

  • Instance group images can now be dynamically fetched through an AWS SSM Parameter.

  • The AWS Load Balancer, when enabled, will run on worker nodes if IRSA is enabled as of Kubernetes version 1.24.

Breaking changes

Other breaking changes

  • Support for Kubernetes version 1.20 has been removed.

  • The "external" networking option is not supported for Kubernetes 1.26 or later. For "bring your own" CNIs, use the "cni" networking option instead.

Deprecations

  • Support for Kubernetes version 1.21 is deprecated and will be removed in kOps 1.27.

  • Support for Kubernetes version 1.22 is deprecated and will be removed in kOps 1.28.

  • Support for Ubuntu 18.04 is deprecated and will be removed in kOps 1.28.

  • Support for AWS Classic Load Balancer for API is deprecated and should not be used for newly created clusters.

Full change list since 1.25.0 release