v1.17.0

• Kubernetes v1.17.0
• Manage clusters without using a local asset_dir (#595)
  • Change asset_dir to be optional. Remove the variable to skip writing assets locally (action recommended)
  • Allow keeping cluster assets only in Terraform state (pluggable, encryption) and allow terraform apply from stateless automation systems
  • Improve asset unpacking on controllers
  • Obtain kubeconfig from Terraform module outputs
• Replace usage of template_dir with templatefile function (#587)
  • Require Terraform version v0.12.6+ (action required)
• Update CoreDNS from v1.6.2 to v1.6.5 (#588)
  • Add health lameduck option to wait before shutdown
• Update Calico from v3.10.1 to v3.10.2 (#599)
• Reduce pod eviction timeout for deleting pods on unready nodes from 5m to 1m (#597)
  • Present since v1.13.3, but mistakenly removed in v1.16.0
• Add CPU requests for control plane static pods (#589)
  • May provide slight edge case benefits and aligns with upstream

Google

• Use new google_compute_region_instance_group_manager version block format
  • Fixes warning that instance_template is deprecated
  • Require terraform-provider-google v2.19.0+ (action required)

Addons

• Update Grafana from v6.4.4 to v6.5.1
• Add pod networking details in dashboards (#593)
• Add node alerts and Grafana dashboard from node-exporter (#591)
• Reduce Prometheus high cardinality time series (#596)