Pivotal Greenplum for Kubernetes 0.2.0 Release Notes

Pivotal Greenplum for Kubernetes is an experimental release of Pivotal Greenplum Database on Kubernetes. Greenplum for Kubernetes v0.2.0 is a minor release that includes several feature changes, and is based on Pivotal Greenplum Database 5.11.

Refer to the Pivotal Greenplum Database documentation for detailed information on Pivotal Greenplum Database.

Scope

Pivotal Greenplum for Kubernetes 0.2.0 deploys on PKS version 1.1.1 or later or Kubernetes version 1.10.4 or later (Minikube, GKE, etc.).

Components

Pivotal Greenplum for Kubernetes includes the Greenplum Database version identified below:

Changes from Previous Release

This release introduces the following feature changes and improvements:

• The deploy.sh script no longer requires you to specify the key.json file as an argument. Instead, reference key.json in the Values-overrides.yml file.
• The MASTER_DATA_DIRECTORY variable was removed from Values-common.yml. This directory is always set to /greenplum/data-1 in Greenplum for Kubernetes.
• The PGPORT value is now set automatically in the docker container; you do not need to manually set PGPORT when activating a standby master.
• The Kubernetes service account key (key.json) file is no longer specified as part of the deploy.sh command. Instead, you must specify the location of this file in the Values-common.yaml file as the value of dockerRegistryKeyJson. See Deployment Configuration Options.
• Pivotal Greenplum Database 5.11 supports using Fully Qualified Domain Names (FQDN) to do Host Based authentication in pg_hba.conf. In a Greenplum for Kubernetes deployment, the gpinitsystem_config specifies HBA_HOSTNAMES=1 to use a FQDN for all segments including master. You must use a FQDN when using either gpinitsystem or gpinitstandby with Greenplum for Kubernetes.
• All pods now rely on Kubernetes for DNS services, and they no longer use local files for hostname-to-IP resolution.

Known Issues and Limitations

• Pivotal Greenplum for Kubernetes is an experimental product and is not intended for use in a production environment. Experimental features are subject to change without notice in future releases.
• In order to install Greenplum Database package (.gppkg) files such as MADLib that use the gppkg utility, you must first install the alien utility onto Greenplum hosts (for example, sudo apt-get install alien).