v0.5.0-alpha.1

This is the first prerelease in the v0.5.x series. Please try it out, and also note we now have arm64 builds!

New Features

• Add new binary: ignited (#264, @luxas)
• Add ARM64 support (#173, @luxas)
• Add new command: ignite exec (#232, @BenTheElder)
• Add Manifest Directory support (like kubelet's Static Pods) (#234, @twelho)
• Support directories as well with the --copy-files flag (#271, @twelho)
• Implement read-write GitOps (#241, @twelho)

API Changes

• Add the initial v1alpha2 API types (#250, @twelho)

Enhancements

• Automatically generate the release notes (#283, @luxas)
• Structured logging across the application; add logging support to ignite-spawn (#247, @twelho)
• Extract watcher, batcher and monitor into pkg/util (#245, @luxas)
• Robust recursive FileWatcher support using notify (#265, @twelho)
• Document developer meetings (#272, @dholbach)
• Enable testing in CI, fix the Makefile and tidy (#280, @luxas)
• Create/use a runtime interface instead of direct calls to Docker (#211, @twelho)
• Add structured validation for the API types (#216, @luxas)
• Add Strategic Merge Patch support to the storage (#225, @luxas)
• Improve vulnerability scanning of Docker image (#239, @DieterReuter)
• CNI networking cleanup support, Docker client robustness improvements (#111, @twelho)
• Support checksum-based Cache invalidation, improve cache's object handling (#227, @twelho)
• Rename GitStorage into ManifestStorage (#226, @luxas)
• Client and Storage rework: Recognize multiple API groups (#221, @luxas)
• Create internal API types, and use them (#215, @luxas)

Bug Fixes

• Ensure the directory for godoc2md (#231, @BenTheElder)
• Run gofmt first after generating code (#236, @BenTheElder)
• Fix image root permissions (#249, @praseodym)
• Separate graph generation from make tidy, add make target docs (#233, @twelho)

Documentation

• Add a Read The Docs website: ignite.readthedocs.org (#246, @dholbach)
• Documentation updates and clarifications for the New Storage implementation (#242, @twelho)
• Index awesome doc (#276, @dholbach)
• Update docs links (#268, @dholbach)
• Add Google Group to docs for Calendar and permissions (#248, @stealthybox)
• Docs fix: Remove duplicate bracket (#212, @silenceshell)
• Docs fix: Update the command for deleting all VMs (#201, @curx)
• Docs fix: Duplicate bracket (#218, @silenceshell)
• Docs fix: ID is in .metadata.uid, not .metadata.name (#219, @silenceshell)
• Add an awesome-ignite list for ignite (#270, @luxas)
• Changed --kernel to --kernel-image for accuracy (#217, @paavan98pm)

Trying it out / Next Steps!

In short:

export VERSION=v0.5.0-alpha.1
export GOARCH=$(go env GOARCH 2>/dev/null || echo "amd64")

for binary in ignite ignited; do
    echo "Installing ${binary}..."
    curl -sfLo ${binary} https://github.com/weaveworks/ignite/releases/download/${VERSION}/${binary}-${GOARCH}
    chmod +x ${binary}
    sudo mv ${binary} /usr/local/bin
done

A more throughout installation guide is available here: https://ignite.readthedocs.io/en/latest/installation.html