Has anyone from Rancher looked at supporting k8s 1.26 yet? It's a mess of dependency issues between controller-runtime, lasso, CAPI and client-go.

I think everyone’s still trying to figure out what to do about PSPs going away for 1.25; it’s a big reason that rancher and RKE don’t support it yet. We’ve started in on 1.26 for k3s and rke2 but I doubt anyone on the Rancher side has even looked at it yet.

I can tell you that we've looked into the general direction of 1.26 support, and it looms, ever-so-distantly on the horizon of our future. 😉

I rancher supporting only up to 1.24 right now?

yeah 2.7 still only supports 1.23 and 1.24

Indeed. Once we tackle the PSP/PSA situation, we're slated to add support for 1.25 somewhere in early 2023.

gonna be fun when 1.26 comes out next month and Rancher has only one non-EOL version that it supports

oh no, that's enterprise. you pay more for EOL. It's a feature.

lol

This enterprise is in its own bubble it seems. PSP/PSA was deprecated in v1.21, first half of 2021.

What is “this enterprise” referring to. Doesn’t matter if it was deprecated 5 years ago. Do you know how hard it is for enterprise to adapt, especially when it’s a security component leveraged by thousands of apps?

Would be much harder backporting all bugfixes/security patches from upstream tho. Yeah, it wasn't like it was removed from Kubernetes just like that.

I’m not sure the point you are getting at but I really don’t think you understand the complexity of enterprise and the cost modeling. But obviously Rancher is going to support newer version. Its just harder when k8s makes major breaking changes and takes them a bit longer.