v2.3.6

📢 Release Notes - v2.3.6

🗓 Date: November 19, 2025

Bug Fixes

• Corrected --apiserver-advertise-address handling logic in single control plane setups
  • Removed the incorrect use of the control plane group index during resolution.
  • Ensures ansible_host is used reliably for determining the advertise address.
  • Resolves inconsistencies when resolving the control plane address in delegated tasks.
  • Fixes the issue discussed in PR #2

Full Changelog: v2.3.5...v2.3.6

v2.3.5

📢 Release Notes - v2.3.5

🗓 Date: November 18, 2025

Bug Fixes

• Reliable IP address resolution for --apiserver-advertise-address in single control plane setups
  • Replaced host with getent hosts to determine the correct IP address of the control plane node.
  • Ensures entries in /etc/hosts are correctly resolved before falling back to DNS.
  • Prevents DNS-only lookups and NXDOMAIN errors that previously caused false failures in Ansible playbooks.
  • Fixes hostname resolution issues when determining the advertise address for kubeadm init in single control plane deployments.
  • Fixes the issue discussed in PR #2

Full Changelog: v2.3.4...v2.3.5

v2.3.4

📢 Release Notes - v2.3.4

🗓 Date: November 15, 2025

Enhancements

• Improved kubeadm init handling for Single Control Plane Setup
  • Automatically determines a valid --apiserver-advertise-address for kubeadm init.
  • Uses the provided IPv4 address directly if the control plane node is an IP.
  • Resolves the hostname or FQDN of the control plane node to its IPv4 address if a hostname/FQDN is given.
  • Ensures single control plane deployments are initialized reliably with the correct advertise address.
  • Fixes the issues discussed for environment with multiple NICs in PR #1 and PR #2.

Full Changelog: v2.3.3...v2.3.4

v2.3.3

📢 Release Notes - v2.3.3

🗓 Date: November 10, 2025

Bug Fixes

• Fixed SystemdCgroup configuration handling in containerd
  • Ensures SystemdCgroup = true is correctly set for the runc runtime.
  • Resolves compatibility issues introduced by recent containerd version updates that changed the default config behavior.

Full Changelog: v2.3.2...v2.3.3

v2.3.2

📢 Release Notes - v2.3.2

🗓 Date: August 27, 2025

Fixes

• Added missing crictl configuration file
  • Ensures /etc/crictl.yaml is created with the correct runtime-endpoint (containerd.sock).
  • Removes warning messages when running crictl commands on cluster nodes.

Full Changelog: v2.3.1...v2.3.2

v2.3.1

📢 Release Notes - v2.3.1

🗓 Date: August 22, 2025

Improvements

• Containerd and runc binaries path updated
  • Changed from /usr/local/bin → /usr/bin for better administration and alignment with standard system paths.

Full Changelog: v2.3.0...v2.3.1

v2.3.0

📢 Release Notes - v2.3.0

🗓 Date: August 15, 2025

🚀 What's New?

🔹 New Feature

• 🌟 High Availability (HA) Control Plane Support
  • The playbook now supports Kubernetes cluster setup with multiple control plane nodes for a highly available architecture.
  • Works seamlessly with any load balancer of your choice (e.g., NGINX, HAProxy) to route API server requests.
  • Maintains compatibility with single control plane setups for simpler development and testing needs.

🔹 Additional Notes for HA Setup

• Minimum 3 control plane nodes (odd number of control plane nodes).
• Configure the control-plane-endpoint file with your load balancer endpoint's FQDN.
• Default API server port 6443 is used unless specified as <FQDN>:<port>.

Full Changelog: v2.2.14...v2.3.0

v2.2.14

📢 Release Notes - v2.2.14

🗓 Date: July 9, 2025

🚀 What's Fixed & Improved?

🔹 Bug Fixes

• 🛠️ Correct File Ownership for Kubeconfig file (~/.kube/config)
  • Fixed an issue during the copy of the Kubeconfig file (~/.kube/config) when the primary group of the Kubernetes user (with admin privileges) was not the same as the username.
  • The task now dynamically detects and applies the correct primary group, ensuring proper file ownership and avoiding permission-related errors.

Full Changelog: v2.2.13...v2.2.14

v2.2.13

📢 Release Notes - v2.2.13

🗓 Date: July 7, 2025

🚀 What's Fixed & Improved?

🔹 Feature Additions & Enhancements

• ✅ Version Pinning for Kubernetes Components

  • Ensures installation of exact versions of kubelet, kubeadm, and kubectl, based on the latest GitHub release.
  • Eliminates dependency on latest, improving reliability and consistency across all cluster nodes.

• ✅ Persistent Version Metadata Storage on Control Plane

  • Captures and writes the versions of kubernetes, containerd, runc, and calico to /etc/inst-k8s-ansible-vars on the control plane node.
  • Enables reuse of the same versions when adding new nodes or performing upgrades, ensuring consistency.

• ✅ Improved Cluster Node Consistency

  • Simplifies scaling the cluster by enforcing uniform component versions across newly added nodes.

Full Changelog: v2.2.12...v2.2.13

v2.2.12

📢 Release Notes - v2.2.12

🗓 Date: March 16, 2025

🚀 What's Fixed & Improved?

🔹 Bug Fixes & Enhancements

• ✅ Improved Pod Readiness Check

  • Ensured that all Kubernetes pods are in a fully ready state before proceeding with some deployments.
  • Fixed issues where kubectl health checks could pass incorrectly.

• ✅ Code Cleanup

  • Removed unnecessary variable prefixes, improving readability and maintainability.

• ✅ Enhanced Firewall Rules

  • Added firewalld rule to allow traffic for the Kubernetes ClusterIP CIDR (10.96.0.0/12).
  • Ensures seamless communication between Kubernetes services.

Full Changelog: v2.2.11...v2.2.12