Fabric8 Kubernetes Client 6.1 is now available!

On behalf of the Fabric8 team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that the Fabric8 Kubernetes Client 6.1.1 has been released and is now available from Maven Central 🎉.

Thanks to all of you who have contributed with issue reports, pull requests, feedback, and spreading the word with blogs, videos, comments, and so on. We really appreciate your help, keep it up!

What's new?

Without further ado, let's have a look at the most significant updates:

• Periodic refresh of access tokens
• Attach to a running Pod Container
• Extension version bumps
• 🐛 Many other bug fixes and minor improvements

Periodic refresh of access tokens

The Kubernetes Client will now periodically reload the tokens provided at /var/run/secrets/kubernetes.io/serviceaccount/token.

Attach to a running Pod Container

Similar to the kubectl attach command, we've implemented new functionality to be able to attach to an existing running process. The following snippet illustrates how you can use the new attach() method.

client.pods().withName("my-pod")
  .redirectingInput().writingOutput(System.out).writingError(System.err)
  .withTTY().attach();

Extension version bumps

We've bumped the dependency version for several extensions, providing support for the latest APIs. The affected extensions are:

• Apache Camel-K
• cert-manager
• Chaos Mesh
• Istio
• Knative

Using this release

If your project is based on Maven, you just need to add the Fabric8 Kubernetes Client to your Maven dependencies:

<dependency>
  <groupId>io.fabric8</groupId>
  <artifactId>kubernetes-client</artifactId>
  <version>6.1.1</version>
</dependency>

If your project is based on Gradle, you just need to add the Fabric8 Kubernetes Client to your Gradle dependencies:

dependencies {
  api "io.fabric8:kubernetes-client:6.1.1"
}

Once your project is ready, you can create a new instance of the client to perform operations. In the following code snippet I show you how to instantiate the client and retrieve a list of Pods:

try (KubernetesClient client = new KubernetesClientBuilder().build()) {
  client.pods().list().getItems().forEach(p -> System.out.println(p.getMetadata().getName()));
}

How can you help?

If you're interested in helping out and are a first-time contributor, check out the "good first issue" tag in the issue repository. We've tagged extremely easy issues so that you can get started contributing to Open Source.

We're also excited to read articles and posts mentioning our project and sharing the user experience. Giving a star to the project, and spreading the word in general, helps us reach more users and broaden the feedback. Feedback is the only way to improve.

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