New Cluster Management and Observability Features in Verrazzano 1.6, the Open Source Enterprise Container Platform

Hi everyone. On June 28, the Verrazzano team released the latest version of Verrazzano: version 1.6.0. Take a look at https://github.com/verrazzano/verrazzano/releases. New capabilities include enhanced cluster management and additional optional observability components.

Here are links to some of the key features:

• Lifecycle management of Oracle Cloud Native Environment (OCNE) Kubernetes clusters: https://verrazzano.io/latest/docs/setup/provision-cluster/ocne-oci/
• Cluster API for cluster management with Verrazzano: https://verrazzano.io/latest/docs/setup/provision-cluster/capi/
• Create managed clusters with a minimal footprint with an eye towards edge scenarios: https://verrazzano.io/latest/docs/setup/mc-install/multicluster/#minimal-managed-cluster-configurations
• Thanos for improved metrics data storage and high availability:
  https://verrazzano.io/latest/docs/observability/monitoring/configure/thanos/ and
  https://verrazzano.io/latest/docs/observability/monitoring/configure-metrics/
• Thanos for improved multicluster metrics handling: https://verrazzano.io/latest/docs/observability/monitoring/multicluster-metrics/
• Fluent operator and fluentbit for smaller footprint, better performance, and more configurability: https://verrazzano.io/latest/docs/observability/logging/fluent-operator/
• Updated components and other enhancements: https://verrazzano.io/latest/docs/releasenotes/

More details to come.

Give it a spin! https://verrazzano.io/latest/docs/setup/quickstart/