Autumn Bytes
With a fresh issue on the first Tuesday of every month, the Rancher Roundup is your digest of all things cloud native in SUSE. Keep up with the latest in Rancher, Kubewarden, k3s and all our other projects by subscribing today!
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During the month of October, we’ll be delving into the newest release of everyone’s favorite HCI cloud native project, Harvester. Stay tuned to this space for more details on where you can catch the discussions live!
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Elemental
We’ve released v1.0 of the Elemental Toolkit with some major improvements to its workflow. The elemental-cli has been merged into the toolkit repository and all the elemental features that used to be built as packages are now embedded directly in the CLI, increasing the speed of iteration for users and developers.
In order to use this new functionality we introduced the init command which can be used to extract features into a derivative (see the examples folder in the toolkit for usage). View more info about this functionality here.
Epinio
Epinio v1.10.0 is out! This release comes with support for?private?git repositories for your app source code, and support for?private?Helm registries and repositories for your services. It is now also possible to export applications as chart and image pairs to external OCI registries. For all the other new features view the full?changelog, and our?documentation.?
P.S. ICYMI, we co-hosted a global online meetup with the Epinio engineering team in September where we delved into all of this and more! Check out the recordings here or on Youtube.
Harvester
In September, we released Harvester v1.2.0 with expanded functionality and more flexible options for managing both virtual machines and containerized workloads.
Many new features have arrived including the ability to use third-party storage options for non-root disks, a new load-balancing service for our cloud provider, bare-metal hardware management that integrates directly with IPMI, improvements to SRIOV VF support, emulated TPM 2.0, and changes to provide additional installation flexibility and reduced footprint.
With our new BareMetal Cloud-Native Workload Support feature, it is now possible to run container workloads directly on the Harvester host. In addition, our new Rancher Manager vcluster feature allows the option to run Rancher directly on Harvester without the need for an additional centrally managed Rancher server. These two features are currently experimental and we welcome feedback.
For more information about this release please check out the official announcement here.
Kubewarden
Kubewarden v1.7.0 was released in September with bug fixes, stability improvements, and several brand new features. Among them is an experimental feature that aims to reuse the Kyverno DSL and we would like YOUR input in understanding if it is of value! You can find the policy here and? we are eager to hear from you on Slack or during our monthly community meeting.
To learn more about the other features introduced as part of this release, check out our release blog or take v1.7.0 for a spin by working through the Quickstart section of our docs.
NeuVector
NeuVector v5.2.1 was released in August, containing a few new features and bug fixes. New features include an exportable report which maps NIST 800-53 controls to CIS benchmarks, and reporting layered scan results and additional CVE data in SYSLOG messages. See the?release notes?for more details.
Rancher Desktop
Rancher Desktop 1.10 release includes significant enhancements to features such as Deployment Profiles, mount types support, networking proxy configuration, and other important bug fixes. The newly added rdctl create-profile command makes it incredibly easy to create deployment profiles for both Windows (.reg) and macOS (.plist) by offering a range of options and flags. On macOS and Windows, you can use the command to create deployment profiles bypassing the settings information (JSON) in a file or via command line arguments. Or you can simply export your current Rancher Desktop settings as a deployment profile using the flag --from-settings. In addition to rdctl create-profile, we have added below key improvements:
Per usual, you can read more about the newest release in our release notes and the blog post
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News from the Ranch
Want to level up your skills and win some cool swag while you’re at it? Look no further ‘cause Rancher Academy is here to save the day! Complete the newly released RKE2 Basics course & you might stand a chance to win your very own Wyatt plushie as part of our October Giveaway. Don’t leaf this opportunity! ????
??Note: Rancher Academy will be down on October 24th, 2023 due to scheduled maintenance activity ??
If you're headed to Chicago for KubeCon in November, don't forget to add Rancher Day to your schedule!?A full day co-located event that focuses on cluster optimization, securing production environments, and simplified application deployment using open-source tools, it is tailored for operators and developers with basic Kubernetes knowledge. As an event attendee, you'll also be walking away with exclusive Rancher swag! So, what are you waiting for? ?? Sign up for Rancher Day by amending your KubeCon registrations today!
It’s?Showtime!???
Catch Divya Mohan, Senior Tech Evangelist at SUSE, and Saiyam Pathak live during Cloud Native Sustainability week on the kubesimplify Youtube channel as they delve into the different implementations promoting the theme throughout the second week of October.
Catch Robert Sirchia , Head of Community Evangelism at SUSE at the All Things Open Conference speaking about Deep Dive with SLE BCI ?on 16th of October, 2023. View the schedule or register by visiting their official website today!
P.S. Do you or your organization leverage any SUSE projects for a cool use case? If yes, we’d love to hear from you! Tag Rancher by SUSE on?LinkedIn?or?X (formarly, Twitter) for a chance to be featured in the next edition of this newsletter.