Avi Vantage 18.1.X Release Notes
What’s New in 18.1.2
ADC
- HTTP caching can now be controlled by specifying URIs, in addition to MIME types
- Support for sharing pool groups across virtual services
- IPv6 protocol support both at the client and server side for bare metal, VMware, OpenStack and Linux server cloud environments
- Support for HTTP/2 for client-side connections
- Minimum number of Service Engines for VS placement can be dynamically reduced
- Support for L4 SSL virtual service to handle both SSL and non-SSL ports on both client and server side
- Customized response pages can be created for errors generated in TCP, SSL/TLS, HTTP, WAF, and DataScript processing
- Support to set a server timeout on a per-request basis
- Strings in string groups can now be edited
- A DataScript can read an HTTP response body
DNS
- DNS Quad-A (AAAA) and DNS64 support
- DNS Policy enhancement: Support to return specific A, AAAA, CNAME or NS record(s) for a matching FQDN
Security
- Client logs: Support for removing or masking Personally Identifiable Information (PII) in request-headers and response-headers fields
- WAF: Enhanced metrics to estimate WAF SE resource sizing
Analytics
- Client log streaming now supports TCP as well as optional syslog header
- For higher performance and scale, client logs can be streamed directly from SE memory without initially writing to disk
Operations
- Controller syslog events can be sent in JSON-formatted messages for consumption by a wider range of tools
System
Public Cloud
- AWS: Alert user when an AWS Auto Scaling group referenced by an Avi pool is deleted
- AWS: Route 53 AWS Account can be different from Controller AWS account
- AWS: Each tenant may create and manage its cloud in AWS
- Azure: Each tenant may create and manage its cloud in Azure
- GCP: Support for GCP autoscaling groups
- GCP: Support user-owned IP ranges for VIPs
Cisco ACI
- Multiple virtual services can share the same service graph in ACI
- Avi Service Graph implementation changed from 2 node to 1 node
Private Cloud
Networking
- Cisco CSP2100: VLAN trunking support
- Multihop BGP peer support for iBGP
Automation
- Golang package for Avi SDK
- Native Terraform provider support for managing Avi configuration
Issues Resolved in 18.1.2
- AV-23166: OpenShift: Logs consume more disk than the configured limit causing disk to fill up, leading to SE failure
- AV-23359: After changing one of the nodes in cluster, virtual service analytics page does not render data due to inconsistent metrics mapping between SE and the Controller
- AV-31453: Changes to /etc/docker/daemon.json are not preserved across Avi Vantage upgrade
- AV-34379: DataScript in non-admin tenant cannot reference shared IP groups in admin tenant
- AV-34396: UI: global service cannot map to SNI child virtual service
- AV-35683: VLAN interface IP removed after changing the bond interface members
- AV-35689: API session ID does not expire
- AV-36958: Avi Service Engine responds to ARP for non-VIP addresses in OpenShift
- AV-38353: UDP traceroute to VIP does not work if df bit is set in the packet
- AV-38533: OpenShift: Service Engines may fail after deploying route with an invalid SSL certificate
- AV-39027: OpenStack with Contrail plugin: All traffic for VIP subnet is being routed to Service Engine
- AV-39760: Controller UI shows wrong metrics for End to End UDP Log Analytics
- AV-40377: Cisco CSP2100: Secondary Service Engine may not process flows if multiple bond interfaces are in use
- AV-40421: UI: While creating a Service Engine VLAN interface, UI drop-down menu shows only 8 VRFs
Known Issues in 18.1.2
- AV-40988 : Linux Server Cloud: Status of all hosts show “start in progress” when only one of the host is non-responsive
Performing the Upgrade
Upgrade prerequisite: The current version of Avi Controller must be 17.2 or later.
Protocol Ports Used by Avi Vantage for Management Communication
Supported Platforms
Refer to System Requirements: Ecosystem
Product Documentation
For more information, please see the following documents, also available within this knowledge base.
Installation Guides
Open Source Package Information
- Copyright Information [https://s3.amazonaws.com/aviopensource/18.1.2/copyrights.pdf]
- Packages used [https://s3.amazonaws.com/aviopensource/18.1.2/packages.pdf]
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