We’re excited to announce the launch of Nutanix Kubernetes Platform (NKP) 2.14.
This new release expands the number of validated and NKP managed Kubernetes® services to 13 by adding a Harbor powered production-ready image registry, making it easier than ever for customers to run enterprise grade Kubernetes clusters. Additionally, this release adds integration with the Nutanix Objects Storage solution to provide an even broader portfolio of data services to Kubernetes running on the Nutanix Cloud Platform.
Integrated Image Registry
Integrated image registry
An image registry is a crucial component of any cloud native strategy to provide secure and compliant applications. NKP 2.14 allows users to deploy a fully integrated, highly-available and production-ready image registry on the NKP management cluster that provides crucial features, like image vulnerability scanning and RBAC.
The image registry can be used as a mirror registry for newly created NKP clusters, or as a private registry for application container images. Developers can push container images that can then be deployed by the IT operators in a private and secure manner.
Utilizing object storage for optimal scalability, the image registry can be deployed to Nutanix Objects Storage or another accessible S3 endpoint. With Nutanix Objects Storage, NKP now provides a seamless experience to manage all of your container images.
Integration with Nutanix Objects
Integration with Nutanix Objects
Object storage, such as AWS S3 and Nutanix Objects Storage, is commonly used for cloud native workloads. With 2.14, Nutanix now provides a Container Object Storage Interface (COSI) driver for Nutanix Objects Storage, allowing users to declaratively create and manage Nutanix Objects Storage buckets utilizing Kubernetes Custom Resource Definitions (CRDs).
With this integration, operators no longer need to manually create and manage buckets for storage, making it far easier to expose the object store to cloud native applications. By declaratively defining these objects, operators can also commit and save these definitions, enabling GitOps flows to govern even more of the application lifecycle.
NKP 2.14 Software Support Updates
Since NKP integrates and manages pure upstream Kubernetes and related services, each upgrade of NKP brings the latest from the best of the open source community. In particular, this release upgrades the following:
- Kubernetes 1.31: NKP 2.14 ships with default Kubernetes version 1.31. Check out the Kubernetes release notes for a full rundown of the new features and improvements.
- Traefik v3.x: NKP leverages Traefik as an ingress controller. NKP 2.14 will leverage the latest Traefik v3.x major release. Read more about this exciting functionality here!
- OS updates:
- Support for Ubuntu 22.04 on all NKP infrastructure providers
- Support for RHEL 8.10 on all NKP infrastructure providers
Learn more about NKP on our website or try it for yourself in a free Test Drive.
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