Foglight® for Container Management 4.0.0
Developed for Foglight Management Server 5.9.8/ Foglight for Virtualization, Enterprise Edition 8.9.3/ Foglight Evolve 9.3
Release Notes
December 2020
Welcome to Foglight for Container Management
Resolved issues and enhancements
Getting started with Foglight for Container Management
Containers is a method of an operating system virtualization that allows you to run an application and the dependencies in a resource-isolated process. Foglight® for Container Management simplifies this process by tracking each container, the resources it consumes and the remaining compute of the container host. Moreover, it provides a cluster information and the pre-configured rules with notifications that identifies the problem of your clusters.
This Release Notes covers the resolved issues, known issues, workarounds and some other important information about the 4.0.0 release of Foglight for Container Management. Review all sections before starting installation.
Foglight for Container Management supports the following container platforms for Kubernetes Agent:
Foglight for Container Management supports the following container platforms for Docker Swarm Agent:
Note: Windows containers are not supported in this release.
This 4.0.0 release of Foglight for Container Management accompanies the release of Foglight Evolve 9.3 and Foglight for Virtualization, Enterprise Edition 8.9.3. It includes Foglight for Container Management for Kubernetes (GA release) and Foglight for Container Management for Docker Swarm (Technical Preview release). This release includes following new features and improvements:
Foglight for Container Management for Kubernetes
Supports Container Cost for Kubernetes environment. (FCON-1030)
Notes:
1. Currently, the
Kubernetes costs for AKS and EKS environment are calculated.
2. To access the Cost tab, both Administrator role and Container Administrator role are required.
3. Container cost does not collect costs from cloud providers, but uses the cost data collected by cloud agents for parsing the Container environment cost. For more prerequisites, refer to Cost section in Foglight for Container Management User and Administration Guide.
Foglight for Container Management for Docker Swarm
Foglight for Container Management for Docker Swarm does not include any new feature or improvement.
This 4.0.0 release of Foglight for Container Management accompanies the release of Foglight Evolve 9.3 and Foglight for Virtualization, Enterprise Edition 8.9.3. The following is a list of issues addressed and enhancements implemented in this release.
|
Defect ID |
Known Issue |
|
FCON-274 |
Fixed an issue where the Node, Pod, and Cluster metrics in summary dashboards might not be aligned with rule definition. |
|
FCON-1085 |
Changed Kubernetes Cluster/Namespace selector to Kubernetes Foglight Service selector. |
|
FCON-1193 |
Changed Pods Dashboard to new Workload Dashboard. |
|
FCON-1196 |
Removed Kubernetes Controller Tab. |
|
FCON-1282 |
Added a rule Kubernetes Container Restart for Termination with Invalid State to detect if a container has been restarted because of an invalid termination within 12 hours. |
This 4.0.0 release of Foglight for Container Management accompanies the release of Foglight Evolve 9.3 and Foglight for Virtualization, Enterprise Edition 8.9.3. The following is a list of issues known to exist at the time of this release.
|
Defect ID |
Known Issue |
|
FCON-274 |
Kubernetes Pods, Nodes, Cluster Summary dashboard spinner color failed to change based on the rule severities. |
|
FCON-313 |
Data from different Kubernetes Agents that has the same cluster name will be merged into one cluster. |
|
FCON-1196 |
After upgrading to 4.0.0, the Container dashboard might show empty
inventory data and metrics. |
|
FCON-1408 |
After disconnecting for hours, the Platform Type in the Kubernetes Cost Administration table will be changed to On-Prem even if it is detected as a cloud platform. |
TThis 4.0.0 release of Foglight for Container Management accompanies the release of Foglight Evolve 9.3 and Foglight for Virtualization, Enterprise Edition 8.9.3. The following Foglight product versions and platforms are compatible with this release.
|
Product Name |
Product Version |
Platform |
|
Foglight Management Server |
5.9.8 |
All platforms supported by this version of the Foglight Management Server |
|
Foglight Agent Manager Note: All monitoring agents available in this version of Foglight Container Management support the Agent Manager HA failover mode. For more information about this mode, see the Agent Manager Guide. |
5.9.8 |
All platforms supported by this version of the Foglight Agent Manager |
|
Foglight Evolve |
9.3 |
All platforms supported by this version of the Foglight Evolve |
|
Foglight for Virtualization, Enterprise Edition |
8.9.3 |
All platforms supported by this version of the Foglight for Virtualization, Enterprise Edition |
To upgrade the Foglight for Container Management to the latest version:
Note: Kubernetes Agents migrated from Heapster to Prometheus will fail to collect metrics when using Prometheus configured to use Authentication other than Kubernetes Authentication.
For information about system requirements for this release, see the corresponding Foglight System Requirements and Platform Support Guide.
Foglight includes a licensing capability that restricts access to those features that are defined in the license. Any Management Server installation requires a license that grants access to server-specific parts of the browser interface and the features associated with them. Foglight cartridges are also license-protected. While some cartridges are covered by the base Foglight license (such as Foglight Agent Manager cartridges and Foglight for Infrastructure), others may require an additional license.
For Foglight for Container Management, the Monitoring features are covered by Foglight Evolve Monitor, Cloud, Operate, and Flex license, while the Cost, Optimizer, and Capacity Management features are covered by Foglight Evolve Flex, Operate, and Cloud license.
To activate a trial or a purchased commercial license:
Foglight for Container Management 4.0.0 is a software release, and consists of the .car file required for installation on the Management Server and the necessary documentation.
The Foglight for Container Management release package contains the following products:
1. Foglight for Container Management version 4.0.0
2. Product Documentation, including:
Foglight for Container Management 4.0.0 comes pre-installed on Foglight Evolve 9.3 or Foglight for Virtualization, Enterprise Edition 8.9.3.
Foglight for Container Management can be installed on the Foglight Management Server versions listed in the Upgrade and Compatibility section.
To install Foglight for Container Management:
Additional information is available from the following:
This section contains information about installing and operating this product in non-English configurations, such as those needed by customers outside of North America. This section does not replace the materials about supported platforms and configurations found elsewhere in the product documentation.
This release is Unicode-enabled and supports any character set. In this release, all product components should be configured to use the same or compatible character encodings and should be installed to use the same locale and regional options. This release is targeted to support operations in the following regions: North America, Western Europe and Latin America, Central and Eastern Europe, Far-East Asia, Japan.
This release has the following known capabilities or limitations: This release is only localized for English but does support the Unicode character set.
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