This topic introduces kube-flannel-ds-windows and describes the usage notes and release notes for kube-flannel-ds-windows.

Introduction

kube-flannel-ds-windows is a container network plug-in used by managed Kubernetes clusters. kube-flannel-ds-windows is used to set up a l2bridge network to connect Windows containers.

Usage notes

If you choose Flannel as the network plug-in when you create a managed Kubernetes cluster, kube-flannel-ds-windows is automatically deployed as a DaemonSet in the cluster. kube-flannel-ds-windows is dependent on the privileged proxy processes on Windows nodes. kube-flannel-ds-windows can be deployed only on Windows nodes that are added with the windows.alibabacloud.com/deployment-topology=2.0 label. By default, the windows.alibabacloud.com/deployment-topology=2.0 label is added to a Windows node when the node is created.

If your cluster does not contain Windows nodes or the Windows nodes in your cluster are not added with the windows.alibabacloud.com/deployment-topology=2.0 label, no replicated pods are provisioned for kube-flannel-ds-windows.

If a Windows node is added with the windows.alibabacloud.com/deployment-topology=2.0 label but no replicated pods are provisioned for kube-flannel-ds-windows, you must redeploy kube-flannel-cfg-windows and kube-flannel-ds-windows.

  1. Log on to the ACK console.
  2. In the left-side navigation pane of the ACK console, click Clusters.
  3. On the Clusters page, find the cluster that you want to manage. Then, click the name of the cluster or click Details in the Actions column.
  4. In the left-side navigation pane, choose Operations > Add-ons.
  5. On the Add-ons page, find kube-flannel-ds, click More Icon, and then click View in YAML.
  6. In the View in YAML panel, copy the configurations of kube-flannel-cfg-windows and kube-flannel-ds-windows.
  7. In the left-side navigation pane of the cluster details page, choose Workloads > Deployments.
  8. On the Deployments page, click Create from YAML in the upper-right corner.
  9. Set Sample Template to Custom. Paste the configurations of kube-flannel-cfg-windows and kube-flannel-ds-windows to the Template field. Click Create.

Release notes

August 2021

Version Image address Release date Description Impact
v0.15.1.1-6e1a57c8-aliyun registry-vpc.${region}.aliyuncs.com/acs/flannel-windows:v0.15.1.1-6e1a57c8-aliyun 2022-01-21
  • Flannel is updated.
  • The following Windows operating systems are supported: Windows Server version 1809 (10.0.17763.2114), Windows Server version 1909 (10.0.18363.1556), and Windows Server version 2004 (10.0.19041.1165).
No impact on workloads.

August 2021

Version Image address Release date Description Impact
v0.13.1-aliyun.3 registry-vpc.${region}.aliyuncs.com/acs/flannel-windows:v0.13.1-aliyun.3 2021-08-22
  • The base images are updated. The original version number is overwritten.
  • The following Windows operating systems are supported: Windows Server version 1809 (10.0.17763.2114), Windows Server version 1909 (10.0.18363.1556), and Windows Server version 2004 (10.0.19041.1165).
No impact on workloads.

July 2021

Version Image address Release date Description Impact
v0.13.1-aliyun.3 registry-vpc.${region}.aliyuncs.com/acs/flannel-windows:v0.13.1-aliyun.3 2021-07-05
  • The base images are updated. The original version number is overwritten.
  • The following Windows operating systems are supported: Windows Server version 1809 (10.0.17763.1999), Windows Server version 1909 (10.0.18363.1556), and Windows Server version 2004 (10.0.19041.1052).
No impact on workloads.

June 2021

Version Image address Release date Description Impact
v0.13.1-aliyun.3 registry-vpc.${region}.aliyuncs.com/acs/flannel-windows:v0.13.1-aliyun.3 2021-06-17
  • The base images are updated.
  • The following Windows systems are supported: Windows Server version 1809 (10.0.17763.1935), Windows Server version 1909 (10.0.18363.1556), and Windows Server version 2004 (10.0.19041.985).
No impact on workloads.

May 2021

Version Image address Release date Description Impact
v0.13.1-aliyun.2 registry-vpc.${region}.aliyuncs.com/acs/flannel-windows:v0.13.1-aliyun.2 2021-05-13
  • Container Network Interface (CNI) configurations can be automatically shifted when containerd is used as the container runtime.
  • The following Windows operating systems are supported: Windows Server version 1809 (10.0.17763.1879), Windows Server version 1909 (10.0.18363.1500), and Windows Server version 2004 (10.0.19041.928).
No impact on workloads.

April 2021

Version Image address Release date Description Impact
v0.13.1-aliyun.1 registry-vpc.${region}.aliyuncs.com/acs/flannel-windows:v0.13.1-aliyun.1 2021-04-22
  • Rancher Wins is automatically installed on a Windows node with the windows.alibabacloud.com/deployment-topology=2.0 label. You can deploy Flannel on a Windows node by using Rancher Wins.
  • kube-flannel-ds-windows can be used to construct l2bridge and overlay networks. By default, Alibaba Cloud uses l2bridge networks.
  • The following Windows operating systems are supported: Windows Server version 1809 (10.0.17763.1879), Windows Server version 1909 (10.0.18363.1500), and Windows Server version 2004 (10.0.19041.928).
No impact on workloads.