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What's new with Azure Arc resource bridge

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Azure Arc resource bridge is updated on an ongoing basis. To stay up to date with the most recent developments, this article provides you with information about recent releases.

We generally recommend using the most recent versions. The version support policy generally covers the most recent version and the three previous versions (n-3).

Version 1.3.0 (October 2024)

  • Appliance: 1.3.0
  • CLI extension: 1.3.0
  • SFS release: 0.1.34.10926
  • Kubernetes: 1.29.4
  • Mariner: 2.0.20240609

Arc-enabled SCVMM

  • Validation - fail if user is not part of an Admin User Group like DomainAdmins
  • Conditional Validation on Gateway IP for SCVMM IP Pool Scenario and sshkeygen removal
  • Silently Clean Appliance VM Resources like HW Profiles, ISO Files and VM Templates in Delete command
  • CAPVMM update to 1.1.19
  • SCVMM Image Provisioning Decompress Mariner Vhdx disk space error message improvement
  • SCVMM appliance deployment failing in Deploy due to IPPool missing access to HG

Arc-enabled VMware vSphere

  • Remove root folder privilege validations from vSphere
  • extra validations on the canary image

Arc resource bridge platform

  • New error additional info field to add more context to errors
  • Add ACR image pull test suite
  • Add timeout for API Server Endpoint
  • Added DNSError category

Bug fixes

  • CVE fixes

Version 1.2.0 (July 2024)

  • Appliance: 1.2.0
  • CLI extension: 1.2.0
  • SFS release: 0.1.32.10710
  • Kubernetes: 1.28.5
  • Mariner: 2.0.20240609

Arc-enabled SCVMM

  • CreateConfig: Improve prompt messages and reorder networking prompts for the custom IP range scenario
  • CreateConfig: Validate Gateway IP input against specified IP range for the custom IP range scenario
  • CreateConfig: Add validation to check infra configuration capability for HA VM deployment. If HA isn't supported, reprompt users to proceed with standalone VM deployment

Arc-enabled VMware vSphere

  • Improve prompt messages in createconfig for VMware
  • Validate proxy scheme and check for required no_proxy entries

Features

  • Reject double commas (,,) in no_proxy string
  • Add default folder to createconfig list
  • Add conditional Fairfax URLs for US Gov Virginia support
  • Add new error codes

Bug fixes

Version 1.1.1 (April 2024)

  • Appliance: 1.1.1
  • CLI extension: 1.1.1
  • SFS release: 0.1.26.10327
  • Kubernetes: 1.27.3
  • Mariner: 2.0.20240301

Arc-enabled SCVMM

  • Add quotes for resource names

Azure Stack HCI

  • HCI auto rotation logic on upgrade

Features

  • Updated log collection with describe nodes
  • Error message enhancement for failure to reach Arc resource bridge VM
  • Improve troubleshoot command error handling with scoped access key
  • Longer timeout for individual pod pulls
  • Updated execute command to allow passing in a kubeconfig
  • Catch <> in no_proxy string
  • Add validation to see if connections from the client machine are proxied
  • Diagnostic checker enhancement - Add default gateway and dns servers check to telemetry mode
  • Log collection enhancement

Bug fixes

  • HCI MOC image client fix to set storage container on catalog

Version 1.1.0 (April 2024)

  • Appliance: 1.1.0
  • CLI extension: 1.1.0
  • SFS release: 0.1.25.10229
  • Kubernetes: 1.27.3
  • Mariner: 2.0.20240223

Arc-enabled SCVMM

  • Use same vmnetwork key for HG and Cloud (vmnetworkid)
  • SCVMM - Add fallback for VMM IP pool with support for IP range in appliance network, add --vlanid parameter to accept vlanid
  • Non-interactive mode for SCVMM troubleshoot and logs commands
  • Createconfig command uses styled text to warn about saving config files instead of standard logger
  • Improved handling and error reporting for timeouts while provisioning/deprovisioning images from the cloud fabric
  • Verify template and snapshot health after provisioning an image, and clean up files associated to the template on image deprovision failures
  • Missing VHD state handing in SCVMM
  • SCVMM validate and createconfig fixes

Arc-enabled VMware vSphere

  • SSD storage validations added to VMware vSphere in telemetry mode to check if the ESXi host backing the resource pool has any SSD-backed storage
  • Improve missing privilege error message, show some privileges in error message
  • Validate host ESXi version and provide a concrete error message for placement profile
  • Improve message for no datacenters found, display default folder
  • Surface VMware error when finder fails during validate
  • Verify template health and fix it during image provision

Features

  • deploy command - diagnostic checker enhancements that add retries with exponential backoff to proxy client calls
  • deploy command - diagnostic checker enhancement: adds storage performance checker in telemetry mode to evaluate the storage performance of the VM used to deploy the appliance
  • deploy command - Add Timeout for SSH connection: New error message: "Error: Timeout occurred due to management machine being unable to reach the appliance VM IP, 192.168.0.11. Ensure that the requirements are met: https://aka.ms/arb-machine-reqs: dial tcp 192.168.0.11:22: connect: connection timed out
  • validate command - The appliance deployment now fails if Proxy Connectivity and No Proxy checks report any errors

Bug fixes

  • SCVMM ValueError fix - fallback option for VMM IP Pools with support for Custom IP Range based Appliance Network

Version 1.0.18 (February 2024)

  • Appliance: 1.0.18
  • CLI extension: 1.0.3
  • SFS release: 0.1.24.10201
  • Kubernetes: 1.26.6
  • Mariner: 2.0.20240123

Fabric/Private cloud provider

  • SCVMM createconfig command improvements - retry until valid Port and FQDN provided
  • SCVMM and VMware - Validate control plane IP address; add reprompts
  • SCVMM and VMware - extend deploy command timeout from 30 to 120 minutes

Features

  • deploy command - diagnostic checker enhancement: proxy checks in telemetry mode

Product

  • Reduction in CPU requests
  • ETCD preflight check enhancements for upgrade

Bug fixes

  • Fix for clusters impacted by the node-ip being set as kube-vip IP issue
  • Fix for SCVMM cred rotation with the same credentials

Version 1.0.17 (December 2023)

  • Appliance: 1.0.17
  • CLI extension: 1.0.2
  • SFS release: 0.1.22.11107
  • Kubernetes: 1.26.6
  • Mariner: 2.0.20231106

Fabric/Private cloud provider

  • SCVMM createconfig command improvements
  • Azure Local - extend deploy command timeout from 30 to 120 minutes
  • All private clouds - enable provider credential parameters to be passed in each command
  • All private clouds - basic validations for select createconfig command inputs
  • VMware - basic reprompts for select createconfig command inputs

Features

  • deploy command - diagnostic checker enhancement - improve context error messages

Bug fixes

  • Fix for context error always being returned as Deploying

Known bugs

  • Arc resource bridge upgrade shows appliance version as upgraded, but status shows upgrade failed

Version 1.0.16 (November 2023)

  • Appliance: 1.0.16
  • CLI extension: 1.0.1
  • SFS release: 0.1.21.11013
  • Kubernetes: 1.25.7
  • Mariner: 2.0.20231004

Fabric/Private cloud provider

  • SCVMM image provisioning and upgrade fixes
  • VMware vSphere - use full inventory path for networks
  • VMware vSphere error improvement for denied permission
  • Azure Stack HCI - enable default storage container

Features

  • deploy command - diagnostic checker enhancement - add azurearcfork8s.azurecr.io URL

Bug fixes

  • vSphere credential issue
  • Don't set storage container for non-arc-appliance catalog image provision requests
  • Monitoring agent not installed issue

Version 1.0.15 (September 2023)

  • Appliance: 1.0.15
  • CLI extension: 1.0.0
  • SFS release: 0.1.20.10830
  • Kubernetes: 1.25.7
  • Mariner: 2.0.20230823

Fabric/Infrastructure

  • az arcappliance CLI commands now only support static IP deployments for VMware and SCVMM
  • For test purposes only, Arc resource bridge on Azure Stack HCI may be deployed with DHCP configuration
  • Support for using canonical region names
  • Removal of VMware vSphere 6.7 fabric support (vSphere 7 and 8 are both supported)

Features

  • (new) get-upgrades command- fetches the new upgrade edge available for a current appliance cluster
  • (new) upgrade command - upgrades the appliance to the next available version (not available for SCVMM)
  • (update) deploy command - In addition to deploy, this command now also calls create command. Create command is now optional.
  • (new) get-credentials command - now allows fetching of SSH keys and kubeconfig, which are needed to run the logs command from a different machine than the one used to deploy Arc resource bridge
  • Allowing usage of config-file parameter for get-credentials command (new) Troubleshoot command - help debug live-site issues by running allowed actions directly on the appliance using a JIT access key

Bug fix

  • IPClaim premature deletion issue vSphere static IP

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