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🚀 Release Notes - IM Cloud Native Virtualization v1.0.0 (im-cnv)

Release Date: 2025-12-01

📘 Summary

IM Cloud Native Virtualization v1.0.0 is based on SUSE Virtualization (previously known as Harvester) and offers virtualization as well as container orchestration.

Within Vanderlande this is the practical successor to Container Platform (CP2/CP3) and VI_IT_VIRTUALIZATION.

Capabilities of IM-CNV are effectively the same: running any modern Operating System in virtual machines, as well as Kubernetes orchestration of workload clusters enable all of Vanderlande's existing Modules to be run.
There are however, key differences in underlying technology and implementation specifics, which are highlighted below:

  • Persistent Storage location (inside vs outside Kubernetes cluster)

    • CP2/CP3: Persistent storage (provided through Longhorn) was stored within Kubernetes clusters on designated "worker-storage" nodes.
    • IM-CNV: Respective volumes and replicas (still provided through Longhorn - though seemingly with different StorageClass names) are now stored directly on the Hypervisor nodes.

    There are no dedicated storage node pools; cluster nodes can now be reprovisioned without extensive wait periods for replication to finish.

  • Services of type LoadBalancer managed by different controllers

    • CP2/CP3: Services of type LoadBalancer were managed by MetalLB; exposing MetalLB-specific annotations for configuration.
    • IM-CNV: Services of type LoadBalancer are managed by Harvester's integrated Cloud Controller Manager.

    Both load balancers differ in the OSI layers they operate in (MetalLB: Layer 2 and 3, Harvester CMM: Layer 4), however feature parity is maintained for common use cases within Vanderlande.
    NOTE: IP-address pinning is currently not supported through annotations and requires explicit administrator intervention.

  • Virtual Machine templating

    • VI_IT_VIRTUALIZATION: Virtual machine template export & import supported in the format ova/ovf; virtual machine's disks were stored as vmdk files.
    • IM-CNV: No virtual machine template export & import functionality; virtual machines can be created based on disk images in the formats qcow2, raw.

    Harvester includes an addon to connect to a vCenter instance to import virtual machines directly; negating the need to export & import with an intermediate file format.

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🧩 Compatibility Matrix

  • Supported Kubernetes Versions:

    • RKE2: 1.31, 1.32, 1.33
    • K3S (experimental): 1.31, 1.32, 1.33

  • Supported Guest Operating Versions:

    • Suse Linux Enterprise Server: 15 SP6, 15 SP7
    • Suse Linux Enterprise Micro: 6.0, 6.1
    • Ubuntu: 22.04, 24.04
    • RHEL: 9, 10
    • Windows: Windows 11, Windows Server 2025 (up to and including)

  • Bundled Component Versions:

    • Rancher: v2.12
    • Longhorn: v1.9.1

⚠️ Breaking Changes

Refer to aforementioned key differences to understand how migration to IM-CNV might affect your workloads.

🔄 Migration / Upgrade Steps

There is no upgrade path from any version of Container Platform; Kubernetes clusters and respective workloads need to be reprovisioned

📦 Delivery Artifacts