k0s Optimizes Start Time, Adds Cluster Level Backup/Restore and More
We are proud to announce k0s — the zero friction Kubernetes — version 1.21.2 is now released! The highlights of this release (and the previous 1.21.1 release) are Start Time Optimization, Cluster Level Backup/Restore, and the new Start and Stop commands. In addition, you’ll find a number of other enhancements and fixes. Learn more about the new features and enhancements below or see the full change log. Get started today!
The k0s bootstrap process has been optimized and the start time has decreased significantly. The optimization impacts the controller node’s start time by tens of seconds by fine tuning the k0s internally used client for Kubernetes API and streamlining the process of pushing system component manifests into the API.
The basic part of backup and restore was delivered to k0s already in April. The development continued and now we’ll deliver the cluster level backup and restore using k0sctl, which is a separate tool for multi-node cluster management. k0sctl can be run externally from the cluster (in MacOS or Linux) to deploy and upgrade multi-node clusters. From now on you can also orchestrate the backup and restore.
The k0s backup and restore functions were also enhanced to include SQLite (default for single node clusters) in addition to etcd (default for multi-node clusters). To learn more about k0s backup and restore, see the k0s documentation.
