As the Harvester v1.2.0 releases, a new Harvester cloud provider version 0.2.2 is integrated into the RKE2 v1.27.3+rke2r1
, v1.26.6+rke2r1
, v1.25.11+rke2r1
and v1.24.15+rke2r1
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With Harvester v1.2.0, the new Harvester cloud provider provides more powerful load balancing for Kubernetes services. It modifies the network architecture, allowing the load balancer IP to be directly exposed in the RKE2 network. Refer to the design document for more details.
If upgrading RKE2 to the version with the new Harvester cloud provider using Rancher v2.7.6, Rancher will pass the cluster name to the Harvester cloud provider(refer to issue 4332) . The Harvester cloud provider will use the cluster name as part of the Harvester load balancer name and will create a new load balancer for th