Kind: Where are the 1.16 images?

[matthyx]

@BenTheElder do you have an automated (read CI) way of publishing new images of kindest/node when new binaries are released in k/k?

[aojea]

Quoting Ben answer in slack https://kubernetes.slack.com/archives/CEKK1KTN2/p1568828531071900?thread_ts=1568823668.071300&cid=CEKK1KTN2

bentheelder 5 days ago

it's ad-hoc and demand driven at the moment. (mostly around kind releases)
so far most projects we support directly haven't voiced much demand for it, so I've been monitoring the progress to get automated image pushing tools rolled out to kubernetes projects

Temporarily there are "unofficial" images created nightly here https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/kind/issues/197#issuecomment-517791203

[matthyx]

Thanks @aojea this is exactly what I needed... and I didn't do my homework :-/
I think it's safe to close this one then.
/close

[k8s-ci-robot]

@matthyx: Closing this issue.

In response to this:

Thanks @aojea this is exactly what I needed... and I didn't do my homework :-/
I think it's safe to close this one then.
/close

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[BenTheElder]

Sadly not yet, there's another issue tracking automated publishing.

[AkihiroSuda]

any ETA for this?

[BenTheElder]

Currently we publish pre-built node images when we're ready to cut a release of the CLI. We're not quite there being in the middle of a few important transitions in HEAD.

In the future this will change but we're chasing many priorities and don't have the secure first party infrastructure for building these. (see the automated publishing issue in the tracker).

We have also fairly recently a lot of problems with users using images that are not compatible with the release they are using (due to necessary changes in the image <-> cli interactions), which has been reduced by clearly publishing images that are expected to work in release notes and otherwise suggesting building images with a matching version of the CLI. I'd like to stop having those and go alpha -> beta, but I'm not confident that we won't need to do that again.

You can build your own image with kind build node-image and a kubernetes 1.16 checkout in the meantime.

I believe @aojea also has some third party infra publishing nightlies.

[aojea]

https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/kind/issues/197#issuecomment-517791203

[BenTheElder]

kindest/node:v1.16.1@sha256:fa06fad0f635401fc0822ae8ad4d81d2b79d8481fc3223c5f48b36d4369d6da6 will be the new temporary default for kind at HEAD, currently https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/kind/commit/37030ed6aca63c577a7660e483ec42ab87c6f59a.

it has not been tested with other versions.