Release Notes

F5 Service Proxy for Kubernetes (SPK) - v1.5.1

New Features and Improvements

SPK v1.5.1 is a bug fix release, and contains no new features.

Limitations

  • Jumbo Frames - The maximum transmission unit (MTU) must be the same size on both ingress and egress interfaces. Packets over 8000 bytes are dropped.

Bug Fixes

1112133 (TMM)

When the f5-tmm container uses Mellanox ConnectX-5 network interface cards (NICs), interfaces no longer become unresponsive when receiving packets exceeding the 8000 byte maximum transmission unit (MTU).

1105561 (TMM)

Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD) sessions with OVN-Kubernetes no longer fail to established after deleting and reapplying the internal F5SPKVlan CR.

1085129 (TMM)

The TMM process no longer restarts and creates a core file while processing traffic.

Known Issues

1135533 (TMM)

New OVN BFD sessions may fail to establish after scaling the TMM Pod, causing traffic to flow to a single TMM Pod. F5 has worked with RedHat, and determined this is not an SPK software issue. Refer to RedHat bug OCPBUGS-712.

1091997 (TMM)

In dual-stack configurations, application traffic SPK CRs remain in the TMM configuration, even when the watched application is scaled to 0.

Workaround:

Scale the TMM Pod down, ensure the Pod terminates (is no longer running), and then scale the Pod back up.

1. oc scale deploy/f5-tmm --replicas 0
2. oc get pods 
3. oc scale deploy/f5-tmm --replicas 1

Software upgrades

Use these steps to upgrade the SPK software components:

_images/spk_warn.png Important: Steps 2 through 5 should be performed together, and during a planned maintenance window.

  1. Review the New Features and Improvements section above, and integrate any updates into the existing configuration. Do not apply Custom Resource (CR) updates until after the SPK Controller has been upgraded (step 3).
  2. Follow Install the CRDs in the SPK Software guide to upgrade the CRDs. Be aware that newly applied CRDs will replace existing CRDs of the same name.
  3. Uninstall the previous version SPK Controller, and follow the Installation procedure in the SPK Controller guide to upgrade the Controller and TMM Pods. Upgrades have not yet been tested using Helm Upgrade.
  4. Once the SPK Controller and TMM Pods are available, apply any updated CR configurations (step 1) using the oc apply -f <file> command.
  5. Follow the Upgrading DNS46 entries section of the F5SPKEgress CR guide to upgrade any entries created in versions 1.4.9 and earlier.
  6. The dSSM Databases can be upgraded at anytime using the Upgrading dSSM guide.
  7. The Fluentd Logging collector can be upgraded anytime using Helm Upgrade. Review Extract the Images in the SPK Software guide for the new Fluentd Helm chart location.

Next step

Continue to the Cluster Requirements guide to ensure the OpenShift cluster has the required software components.