K3s, a lightweight and highly available certified Kubernetes distribution, has released version v1.28.3+k3s2. This version is designed for production workloads in resource-constrained and remote locations, as well as inside IoT appliances. K3s comes as a single binary that is less than 70MB in size, making it easy to install, run, and auto-update a production Kubernetes cluster.

The latest release updates Kubernetes to version v1.28.3 and addresses several issues. Some of the changes since v1.28.3+k3s1 include:

  • Restoration of selinux context systemd unit file
  • Update of channel to v1.27.7+k3s1
  • Bump of Sonobuoy version
  • Bump of Trivy version
  • Fix for accessing outer scope .SystemdCgroup, which resolves issues with starting with nvidia-container-runtime
  • Upgrade of traefik chart to v25.0.0
  • Update of traefik to fix registry value
  • Improvement to not use iptables-save/iptables-restore if it will corrupt rules

The components and versions included in this release are as follows:

  • Kubernetes v1.28.3
  • Kine v0.10.3
  • SQLite 3.42.0
  • Etcd v3.5.9-k3s1
  • Containerd v1.7.7-k3s1
  • Runc v1.1.8
  • Flannel v0.22.2
  • Metrics-server v0.6.3
  • Traefik v2.10.5
  • CoreDNS v1.10.1
  • Helm-controller v0.15.4
  • Local-path-provisioner v0.0.24

For more information on the release and its features, refer to the Kubernetes release notes .

Overall, this new release of K3s brings important updates and fixes to enhance the performance and reliability of Kubernetes clusters in production environments.

Source: K3s