KubeVela 1.8: Application Delivery Platform Evolution

Introduction

KubeVela 1.8, released on September 20, 2023, is most relevant if you’re operating Kubernetes in production and want fewer surprises. This post walks through the highlights and the kinds of operational scenarios where the changes tend to matter first.

Application Delivery Improvements

• Workflow enhancements enable more sophisticated deployment pipelines and rollback strategies.
• Traffic management improvements provide better canary and blue-green deployment support.
• Health checks enhancements enable better application health monitoring and automatic recovery.
• Resource management improvements provide better resource allocation and limits.

Multi-Cloud Support

1. Multi-cluster improvements simplify managing applications across multiple Kubernetes clusters.
2. Cloud provider integrations expand support for AWS, Azure, GCP, and hybrid cloud deployments.
3. Resource abstraction enables cloud-agnostic application definitions.
4. Migration capabilities simplify moving applications between cloud providers.

Developer Experience

• CLI improvements simplify application creation, deployment, and management workflows.
• Templates expansion provides more application templates for common use cases.
• Documentation enhancements provide better guides and examples.
• IDE integration provides better application authoring experience.

Observability & Monitoring

• Metrics integration exposes application metrics for Prometheus.
• Logging improvements provide better log aggregation and analysis.
• Tracing support enables correlation of application behavior with infrastructure.
• Dashboard integration provides visualization of application health and performance.

Getting Started

curl -fsSl https://kubevela.io/script/install.sh | bash
vela install

Create an Application:

apiVersion: core.oam.dev/v1beta1
kind: Application
metadata:
  name: my-app
spec:
  components:
  - name: frontend
    type: webservice
    properties:
      image: nginx:latest
      ports:
      - port: 80
  - name: backend
    type: webservice
    properties:
      image: my-backend:latest
      ports:
      - port: 8080

Summary

KubeVela 1.8 provides teams with powerful application delivery capabilities for managing cloud-native applications across multiple environments.