RKE2 - v1.29.2+rke2r1

This release updates Kubernetes to v1.29.2.

Important Notes

Experimental command rke2 secrets-encrypt rotate-keys is currently broken and should not be used. Use the classic secrets encryption commands detailed here.

If your server (control-plane) nodes were not started with the --token CLI flag or config file key, a randomized token was generated during initial cluster startup. This key is used both for joining new nodes to the cluster, and for encrypting cluster bootstrap data within the datastore. Ensure that you retain a copy of this token, as is required when restoring from backup.

You may retrieve the token value from any server already joined to the cluster:

cat /var/lib/rancher/rke2/server/token

Changes since v1.29.1+rke2r1:

• Fix validate-chart scripts (#5160)
• Adding yml for new stale action (#5311)
• Secrets Encryption test (#5234)
• Bump actions/cache from 3 to 4 (#5312)
• Update channels for January 2024 patch (#5357)
• Only run flannel host-network CIS netpol controller when using canal CNI (#5318)
• Create a common CNI interface and config struct (#5276)
• Avoid race condition when deleting HNS networks (#5336)
• Add flannel CNI plugin (#5322)
• Flannel added as CNI plugin option
• Bump coredns and multus/whereabouts versions (#5379)
• Coredns, multus and whereabouts using minimal base images
• Fix: missing 'ip link delete cilium_wg0' in rke2-killall.sh (#5274)
• Add adr about rke2-flannel (#5145)
• Update canal version (#5414)
• Update Cilium to 1.15.0 (#5420)
• Improve cni windows code (#5421)
• Bump alpine from 3.18 to 3.19 (#5123)
• Bump harvester-csi-driver to 0.1.17 (#5332)
• Implement custom containerd behavior for Windows Agents, ensure supporting processes exit (#5419)
• Update Calico to v3.27.0 (#5423)
• Bump K3s version for v1.29 (#5458)
• Update k8s and Go (#5470)
• Update Cilium to v1.15.1 (#5473)
• Bump rke2-coredns chart (#5493)
• Bump K3s for etcd-only fix (#5501)
• Add new network policy for ingress controller webhook (#5500)
• Refactor netpol creation and add two new netpols for metrics-server and snapshot-validation-webhook (#5521)
• Bump wharfie to v0.6.6 (#5517)
• Bump wharfie to v0.6.6 to add support for bare hostname as endpoint, fix unnecessary namespace param inclusion

Charts Versions

| Component | Version |
| --- | --- |
| rke2-cilium | 1.15.100 |
| rke2-canal | v3.27.0-build2024020601 |
| rke2-calico | v3.27.002 |
| rke2-calico-crd | v3.27.002 |
| rke2-coredns | 1.29.001 |
| rke2-ingress-nginx | 4.8.200 |
| rke2-metrics-server | 2.11.100-build2023051513 |
| rancher-vsphere-csi | 3.0.1-rancher101 |
| rancher-vsphere-cpi | 1.5.100 |
| harvester-cloud-provider | 0.2.200 |
| harvester-csi-driver | 0.1.1700 |
| rke2-snapshot-controller | 1.7.202 |
| rke2-snapshot-controller-crd | 1.7.202 |
| rke2-snapshot-validation-webhook | 1.7.302 |

Packaged Component Versions

| Component | Version |
| --- | --- |
| Kubernetes | v1.29.2 |
| Etcd | v3.5.9-k3s1 |
| Containerd | v1.7.11-k3s2 |
| Runc | v1.1. |
| Metrics-server | v0.6.3 |
| CoreDNS | v1.11.1 |
| Ingress-Nginx | nginx-1.9.3-hardened1 |
| Helm-controller | v0.15.8 |

Available CNIs

| Component | Version | FIPS Compliant |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Canal (Default) | Flannel v0.24.2
Calico v3.27.0 | Yes |
| Calico | v3.27.0 | No |
| Cilium | v1.15.1 | No |
| Multus | v4.0.2 | No |

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