Release Note

Today, we are promoting the Kubernetes API to General Availability. As part of this release, we have also extended the API with additional functionality:

• When creating or updating a cluster, you may now configure a maintenance window policy specifying the day of the week and time of day that updates should take place for the cluster. Additionally, setting a cluster’s auto_upgrade attribute to true will specify that the cluster can be automatically upgraded to new Kubernetes patch releases (e.g. 1.13.1 to 1.13.2) during its maintenance window.

• An upgrade endpoint is now available to imminently trigger an upgrade to a newer patch release of Kubernetes at your own convenience. You may list available upgrades for your cluster using the upgrades endpoint.

• In order to give users finer control over individual nodes, the recycle endpoint has been deprecated. Instead, we now offer the ability to delete or replace specific nodes in a node pool. By default, workloads will be drained from the node before deletion. Appending the skip_drain=1 query parameter to the request will cause the node to be imminently deleted. Appending the replace=1 query parameter to the request will cause the node to be replaced by a new one after it has been deleted.

For the full details, see the API reference documentation for Kubernetes.

Thank you to everyone who took the time to provide us with feedback.