Kublr 1.19 Release Includes AWS Configurability Improvements, Kubernetes Chaos Engineering 

Nov. 18, 2020 -- Kublr is pleased to announce Kublr 1.19 with a new user interface, full support of external clusters, restricted mode support for the Kublr control plane components, Search Guard fixes, component versions upgrades including streamlining centralized Kubernetes management and chaos engineering practices.

Kublr was also recently recognized as a member of the Solution Plus Partner in the Intel Network Builders annual Winners’ Circle Awards, a program that celebrates outstanding innovation and business acumen that members of our ecosystem are bringing to the networking industry.

Kublr’s CTO Oleg Chunikhin explained, “We continually look to deploy improvements to make enterprise-grade Kubernetes adoption easier.”

Kublr 1.19 includes a number of new features and improvements:

• AWS Partitions UI Support: whether you are using a standard AWS partition, AWS Gov cloud, CN partition, or the AWS secret or top secret region, it can now be easily configured via Kublr UI.
• Full support for Kubernetes 1.18 for Kublr Control Plane: Starting with Kublr 1.19 the control plane runs in a Kubernetes 1.18 cluster as well.
• The control plane can run in a cluster with pod security policies restricted by default.
• Support for advanced capabilities in AWS clusters: Improvements include mixed instance policies with mixed spot and on-demand instances usage, launch templates and more.
• Support for additional helm packages deployed and managed as a part of the cluster
  You can now include helm packages into the cluster specification and deploy system software together with your clusters in one step simplifying the job for DevOps engineers.
• Other new features include Centos/RHEL 8 support, AWS HA NAT gateways, master-only clusters creation via UI and many more.
• Automated chaos testing process can be implemented with LitmusChaos and Argo CD and integrated with Kublr centralized monitoring. Chaos engineering tools are a great way to test an application’s resiliency in Kubernetes deployments.

More information on Kublr 1.19 can be found in the release notes or Kublr documentation. You can also check this Kublr webinar to see the new features by deploying with Kublr a resilient HA cluster on AWS mixed instance policies spot instances, with Jenkins CI/CD pipelines and Nexus repository.

Source: Kublr