* Use regional instance templates for the worker node regional
managed instance groups. Regional instance templates are kept in
the associated region, whereas the older "global" instance templates
were kept in a particular region (regardless of where the MIG region)
so outages in a region X could affect clusters in a region Y which
is undesired
* When using the Cilium component, disable bootstrapping the
kube-proxy DaemonSet. Instead, configure Cilium to provide its
kube-proxy replacement with BPF
* Update the self-managed Cilium component to use kube-proxy
replacement as well
* Use EC2 resource-based hostnames instead of IP-based hostnames. The Amazon
DNS server can resolve A and AAAA queries to IPv4 and IPv6 node addresses
* For example, nodes used to be named like `ip-10-11-12-13.us-east-1.compute.internal`
but going forward use the instance id `i-0123456789abcdef.us-east-1.compute.internal`
* Tag controller node EBS volumes with a name based on the controller node name
* Set reasonable values and remove some variable clutter
* enable_reporting is only used with Calico and we can just default
to false, I doubt anyone uses Calico and cares much about reporting
metrics to upstream Calico
* Typhoon now supports arbitrary combinations of controller, worker,
and worker pool architectures so we can drop the specific details of
full-cluster vs hybrid cluster. Just pick the architecture for each
group of nodes accordingly.
* However, if a custom node taint is set, continue to configure the
cluster's daemonsets accordingly with `daemonset_tolerations`
* Drop support for `cluster_domain_suffix` customization and
always use `cluster.local`. Many components in the Kubernetes
ecosystem assume this default suffix and its very rare to be
setting a special value here these days
* Cleanup a few variables that are seldom used
* On platforms that support ARM64 instances, configure controller
and worker node host architectures separately
* For example, you can run arm64 controllers and amd64 workers
* Add `controller_arch` and `worker_arch` variables
* Remove `arch` variable
* Add `controller_disk_type`, `controller_disk_size`, and `controller_disk_iops`
variables
* Add `worker_disk_type`, `worker_disk_size`, and `worker_disk_iops` variables
and fix propagation to worker nodes
* Remove `disk_type`, `disk_size`, and `disk_iops` variables
* Add `controller_cpu_credits` and `worker_cpu_credits` variables to set CPU
pricing mode for burstable instance types
* Use flexible orchestration mode. Azure has started to recommend this
mode because it allows interacting with VMSS instances like regular VMs
via the CLI or via the Azure Portal
* Add options to allow workers nodes to use ephemeral local disks
* Add `controller_disk_type` and `controller_disk_size` variables
* Add `worker_disk_type`, `worker_disk_size`, and `worker_ephemeral_disk` variables
* Consolidate load balancer frontend IPs to just the minimal IPv4
and IPv6 addresses that are needed per load balancer. apiserver and
ingress use separate ports, so there is not a true need for a separate
public IPv4 address just for apiserver
* Some might prefer a separate IP just because it slightly hides the
apiserver, but these are public hosted endpoints that can be discovered
* Reduce the cost of an Azure cluster since IPv4 public IPs are billed
($3.60/mo/cluster)
* Rename the region variable to location to align with Azure
platform conventions, where resources are created within an
Azure location, which are themselves part of broader geographical
regions
* Define a dual-stack virtual network with both IPv4 and IPv6 private
address space. Change `host_cidr` variable (string) to a `network_cidr`
variable (object) with "ipv4" and "ipv6" fields that list CIDR strings.
* Define dual-stack controller and worker subnets. Disable Azure
default outbound access (a deprecated fallback mechanism)
* Enable dual-stack load balancing to Kubernetes Ingress by adding
a public IPv6 frontend IP and LB rule to the load balancer.
* Enable worker outbound IPv6 connectivity through load balancer
SNAT by adding an IPv6 frontend IP and outbound rule
* Configure controller nodes with a public IPv6 address to provide
direct outbound IPv6 connectivity
* Add an IPv6 worker backend pool. Azure requires separate IPv4 and
IPv6 backend pools, though the health probe can be shared
* Extend network security group rules for IPv6 source/destinations
Checklist:
Access to controller and worker nodes via IPv6 addresses:
* SSH access to controller nodes via public IPv6 address
* SSH access to worker nodes via (private) IPv6 address (via
controller)
Outbound IPv6 connectivity from controller and worker nodes:
```
nc -6 -zv ipv6.google.com 80
Ncat: Version 7.94 ( https://nmap.org/ncat )
Ncat: Connected to [2607:f8b0:4001:c16::66]:80.
Ncat: 0 bytes sent, 0 bytes received in 0.02 seconds.
```
Serve Ingress traffic via IPv4 or IPv6 just requires setting
up A and AAAA records and running the ingress controller with
`hostNetwork: true` since, hostPort only forwards IPv4 traffic
