Hello CF community,

We just shipped cf-for-k8s 0.3.0 alpha release.

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New features and Bug fixes

• 🔥 Platform operators can now set ingress certs for cf apps using the new property workloads_certificate. 🔥
• By separating certificate properties for CF API domain (system_certificate), app domains (workloads_certificate), and internal system components (internal_certificate), operators get granular control in creating certificates for different domains.
• Resolved an issue when upgrading the internal Minio blobstore to new versions (Issue #164).
• Resolved an issue when upgrading the internal Postgres database (Bitnami Postgres helm chart) (Issue #212). Please note that kapp exits ^[1] before the Postgres statefulset is available. In addition, rotating database passwords on an existing install do not currently work.
• Platform operators can now install cf-for-k8s on Kubernetes 1.18 version. You can follow the newest (1.18) and the oldest version (1.14) changes by watching supported_k8s_versions.yml file.
• Platform operators and app developers can see metrics after pushing the app using the cf cli v7 rolling strategy (Issue #177).
• Platform operators will now get an error message if the kapp CLI version does not meet the minimum kapp version required to install cf-for-k8s. (This was already the case for vendir and ytt.)
• Platform operators should see a reduction in insufficient CPU errors when installing cf-for-k8s (Issue #103). With PriorityClass for DaemonSet, K8s will schedule DaemonSet first before scheduling pods.
• Platform operators can now consume Istio pilot metrics.
• App Developers can pass environment variables with cf push (Issue #163).

^[1] This is a known issue. You will have to manually check for the statefulset pod health before running cf-cli commands.

Other updates

• CAPI now includes API readiness configuration, so that it can receive traffic only when it’s ready to accept.
• Changed prefix for user-facing CAPI names to "cf-api".

What we are working on next

• Continue to resolve issues pertaining to cf-for-k8s upgradability. With v0.3.0 release, Operators can now upgrade Minio, PostgresDB, and config-maps changes. Our next milestone is to resolve upgrade issues with system components, K8s cluster version, and 3rd party components.
• Incorporate the full set of Paketo Cloud Native Buildpacks into cf-for-k8s.
• Collaborate with contributing projects in establishing a workflow on consuming releases.

Have a question, reach out to us

Our slack channels

• #cf-for-k8s
• #release-integration

Interested in contributing?

• The easiest way to get involved is to start attending the SIG meetings, join the #cf-for-k8s slack channel, and subscribe to the cf-dev@... mailing list.
• You can also start by improving the docs. Install cf-for-k8s using the deploy docs and if you notice issues or discrepancies in the docs, you can submit a PR.