By Sylvain Desbureaux and Krzysztof Opasiak
Infrastructure
Support of recent Kubernetes
Frankfurt release was not able to be deployed on kubernetes >1.16.
Guilin release still supports 1.15.x version but all versions up to 1.19
Support of Helm v3
Frankfurt release was not able to be deployed on helm 3
Guilin release still supports helm v2.16.x and v2.17.0 but also helm 3.3.x
Helm3 support is still experimental and requires use of postgresql as release storage backend (see https://helm.sh/docs/topics/advanced/#sql-storage-backend)
Limits / requests for deployments
all pods are now using requests/limits
Logs to STDOUT
Several deployments are now logging also to STDOUT, simplifying log collection process: AAI, SO, SDNC, OOF, ...
More automatic certificates retrieval
VID, SDNC, SDNC, SO and CLAMP are now using automatic certificates retrieval
Moving dedicated databases to shared ones
VID is now using the shared mariadb database
Better Ingress support
Some bugs have been resolved in order to have a better support of Ingress.
it's now an "official" deployment way
SO chart cleanup
SO chart has been revamped in order to support automatic certificate retrieval, better compliance with helm.