Distributions and Kubeflow 1.6 release

[annajung]

The goal of this issue is to track the progress of distributions alongside the 1.6 release

While we hope all distros will manage to be ready when the KF 1.6 release is out, this is sometimes impossible to achieve. In this issue, we want to both keep track of the progress of distributions toward the KF 1.6 release and also which of the distros will be working on KF 1.6 (testing during the distribution testing cycle) even if they can't meet the KF 1.6 deadline.

Tagging distribution owners identified in the kubeflow/community#560 (Any new or missed distro owners, please comment on the issue to be tracked with the 1.6 release)

Distribution	Representatives	State
Arrikto EKF	@kimwnasptd	(stretch goal) participating in 1.6
Arrikto MiniKF	@kimwnasptd	(stretch goal) participating in 1.6
AWS	@surajkota	helping with testing in 1.6
Charmed Kubeflow	@DomFleischmann	participating in 1.6
Google Cloud	@zijianjoy @gkcalat	participating in 1.6
IBM	@yhwang	participating in 1.6
Nutanix	@johnugeorge	participating in 1.6
Kubeflow with Argo CD	@davidspek	❓
Openshift	@VaishnaviHire @LaVLaS	participating in 1.6
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure	@julioo	participating in 1.6

Please let us know if you'll be participating in the 1.6 release by answering the following questions:

• Are you planning on having your distro ready in sync with the KF 1.6 release?
• Will you participate by testing your distro during the distribution testing phase and providing feedback (reporting any issues to the release team)?
• If you cannot participate, when can the community expect your distro to be ready for release 1.6?

[Update on June 14th] Distribution testing is scheduled to take place from July 20th to August 10th
Note: After the 2 weeks delay, distribution testing is now scheduled to take place from July 6th to July 27th (ref kubeflow/community#561)

cc @kubeflow/release-team @jbottum

[yhwang]

For IBM IKS,

• Are you planning on having your distro ready in sync with the KF 1.6 release?

Yes

• Will you participate by testing your distro during the distribution testing phase and providing feedback (reporting any issues to the release team)?

Yes

[johnugeorge]

For Nutanix Karbon,

Are you planning on having your distro ready in sync with the KF 1.6 release?

Yes

Will you participate by testing your distro during the distribution testing phase and providing feedback (reporting any issues to the release team)?

Yes

[surajkota]

For AWS,

Are you planning on having your distro ready in sync with the KF 1.6 release?

TBD. If not in sync, we will follow up

Will you participate by testing your distro during the distribution testing phase and providing feedback (reporting any issues to the release team)?

Yes

[DomFleischmann]

For Canonical's Charmed Kubeflow

Are you planning on having your distro ready in sync with the KF 1.6 release?

Yes

Will you participate by testing your distro during the distribution testing phase and providing feedback (reporting any issues to the release team)?

Yes

[annajung]

Hi distribution owners! After checking with all WGs, the release team has decided to extend the all release deadline by 2 more weeks.

Email announcement: https://groups.google.com/g/kubeflow-discuss/c/I4l97HvrGEA/m/227aCe_mCgAJ
New schedule PR: kubeflow/community#562

Distribution testing is now scheduled to take place from July 20th to August 10th

[LaVLaS]

For OpenShift,

Are you planning on having your distro ready in sync with the KF 1.6 release?

Yes

Will you participate by testing your distro during the distribution testing phase and providing feedback (reporting any issues to the release team)?

Yes

[zijianjoy]

For Google Cloud

Are you planning on having your distro ready in sync with the KF 1.6 release?

Yes

Will you participate by testing your distro during the distribution testing phase and providing feedback (reporting any issues to the release team)?

Yes

[julioo]

For Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

Are you planning on having your distro ready in sync with the KF 1.6 release?

Yes

Will you participate by testing your distro during the distribution testing phase and providing feedback (reporting any issues to the release team)?

Yes

[zijianjoy]

cc @gkcalat for working on Kubeflow on Google Cloud release.

[kimwnasptd]

A little bit late to the party, but tfr Arrikto EKF, MiniKF

Are you planning on having your distro ready in sync with the KF 1.6 release?

It will be a stretch, but this will be our goal.

Will you participate by testing your distro during the distribution testing phase and providing feedback (reporting any issues to the release team)?

Yes

[kimwnasptd]

Also heads up to everyone for the following items from Notebooks and Manifests WG:

1. Status with K8s 1.22 and Notebooks Notebook WG and Kubeflow 1.6 release #2199 (comment)
2. We are targeting to use Istio 1.14, instead of 1.13 Manifests WG and Kubeflow 1.6 release #2200 (comment)
3. We are targeting on Knative 1.4 Kubeflow 1.6 Dependency Versions #2207 (comment)

We'll also be on the lookout during the feature freeze for any bug that could occur from any of the above updates, but we are confident there won't be any major issues. But of course don't hesitate to report and ping is you bump into anything undexpected!

[annajung]

Hi Distribution owners, sorry for the delay in providing you with a new RC to test with.

There was a bug identified for Notebooks WG and they're currently working on providing the release team with a new release to be used to cut a new 1.6 RC.

We hope to have the 1.6 RC1 that contains the fix for the bug identified available for you soon. Once the new RC is available, I'll leave an update here and send out an announcement to kubeflow-discuss.

If you want to get started with testing, please note the issue with Jupyter web app.

In addition, here are the PRs that would be included in the new RC.

• Fix typo in the networkpolicies #2254
• Sync kserve web app manifests v0.8.1 #2256
• Profile Controller, Admission webhook cherry-picks + v1.6.0-rc.1 tag kubeflow#6583

[annajung]

Hi Distribution owner, providing you with another update on the RC.

As discussed in the release team meeting today (July 25th), we hope to have a new RC available for everyone early this week. We are waiting for this PR to merge as it aims to address the problem with building images using GitHub actions kubeflow/kubeflow#6591, and once a new notebook release is available, then a PR needs to be created against the manifest repo.

The release team would like to stick with the current schedule and keep the distribution testing till August 10th as planned. However, with the delay in getting the new RC out, we also would like to gather your feedback on the current timeline and if you think it would be necessary to delay the release to increase the time for distribution testing. If you have any concerns with the current release timeline, please reach out soon to ensure your concerns are reviewed in advance before the end of distribution testing.

[annajung]

Kubeflow v1.6.0-rc.1 is now available!

• Announcement: https://groups.google.com/g/kubeflow-discuss/c/LJIHnACbHYY/m/Lcvah_xvAQAJ
• RC 1 contains a known bug, creating a notebook through the UI. Notebook WG is working on a fix that may result in another RC in the future. For more details, you can follow the discussion in the following PRs: Fix(Jupyter): Fix the ImageGroup object path kubeflow#6596 and Fix(Jupyter): fix the image group one and two enabled props kubeflow#6599.