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KubeSphere Enterprise v4.0.0 Release Notes

Main Features

Lightweight

  • Remove unnecessary extensions.
  • Support fast deployment and uninstallation via helm.

Extensions

  • Take a new microkernel architecture - Luban, which support extending functions by various extensions.
  • Provide online KubeSphere marketplace for getting extensions, including free ones.

New UI

  • A brand-new console.
  • Provide global injection points for extensions.

Multiple Clusters

  • Simplify the deployment of agents in member clusters.
  • Support importing member clusters via kubeconfig.

Project Management

  • Support managing workloads such as Deployment, DaemonSet, StatefulSet, Job, and CronJob.
  • Support managing resources such as Secret, ConfigMap, and ServiceAccount.
  • Support managing resources such as Service, and Ingress.
  • Support managing resources such as PVC.
  • Support Quota, LimitRange and other configurations.

Workspace Management

  • Support cross-cluster project management.

Cluster Management

  • Support node management: node eviction, taint management, etc.
  • Support cluster project management.
  • Support cluster resource management: Deployment, DaemonSet, StatefulSet, Job, CronJob, Secret, ConfigMap, ServiceAccount, etc.
  • Support the management of StorageClass and PresistentVolumeClaim.

DevOps

  • Support creating independent DevOps projects and access-controlled CI/CD pipelines.
  • Easy to start without complicated Jenkins configuration.
  • The Jenkinsfile-based pipeline provides a consistent user experience and supports multiple code repositories.
  • Easy to create pipelines on the graphical panel.
  • Powerful tool integration, such as SonarQube, for code quality checking.

Limitations

Upgrade from version 3.x to 4.x is not supported at present, but will be supported in subsequent releases.

The following functions are temporarily unavailable and will be offered by extensions later:

  • Monitoring
  • Alerting
  • Notifications
  • Istio
  • Spring Cloud
  • Project gateway and cluster gateway
  • Storage volume snapshot
  • Network isolation
  • Whizard observability center
  • RadonDB DMP

The following features are currently unavailable and will be supported in subsequent versions:

  • User group management
  • OpenPitrix for app management
  • Build images through S2I / B2I in DevOps

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