Nutanix Karbon 2.4 Released

A few days ago, 2022-03-02, Nutanix released a new version of Karbon, which provides provisioning and operations of Kubernetes clusters, meaning latest and greatest version is now 2.4.

The new version comes with the following new and or improved features:

• GPU Pass-through Support
• Support for Kubernetes v1.21
• Nodepool Improvements
• Cluster Logging Improvements
• Alerting Improvements

In addition the new release includes the following component updates:

• docker 20.10.9
• alert-manager 0.22.2
• kube-state-metrics 2.1.1
• node-exporter 1.2.2
• prometheus 2.29.1
• prometheus-operator 0.49.0
• kube-rbac-proxy 0.11.0
• calico 3.21.4
• coredns 1.8.6
• csi 2.5.1
• elasticsearch 7.16.3
• fluent 1.8.11
• kibana 7.16.3

Karbon version 2.4 is compatible with:

• Nutanix cluster / Prism Element (PE) version 5.20 and later
• Prism Central (PC) version 2021.7 and later
• Nutanix Files – Any version
• Kubernetes versions:
  • 1.18.20
  • 1.19.13
  • 1.20.9
  • 1.21.8

Useful Links

• Karbon 2.4 User Guide
• Karbon 2.4 Release Notes
• Important Karbon dates for GA, End of Maintenance and End of Support Life Information