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anaqvi
on 26 August 2019

MicroK8s Version 1.16.0 Beta Released!


We’re excited to announce the release of MicroK8s 1.16 beta! MicroK8s is a lightweight and reliable Kubernetes cluster delivered as a single snap package – it can be installed on any Linux distribution which supports snaps or Windows and Mac using Multipass. MicroK8s is small and simple to install and is a great way to stand up a cluster quickly for development and testing. Try it on your laptop!

Try it out today: sudo snap install microk8s –classic –beta

What’s new in Version 1.16 Beta

  • New Cilium addon courtesy of @joestringer. Try it with microk8s.enable cilium
  • New Helm addon courtesy of @joestringer. Try it with microk8s.enable helm
  • RBAC rules for CoreDNS and storage add ons, courtesy of @wichert.
  • Istio upgraded to v1.2.2 and now includes kiali
  • Knative upgraded to v0.7
  • Enabling of aggregation layer and fix on metrics server RBAC rules, thank you @giner
  • Improvements in the inspection script, thanks @giorgos-apo



Get In Touch

To learn more and try out MicroK8s visit the official docs. Contribute to the project at Github, chat with us on the Kubernetes Slack, in the #microk8s channel or tag us @canonical, @ubuntu on Twitter (#MicroK8s). We are excited to hear your feedback!

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