This document is relevant for: Inf1, Inf2, Trn1, Trn2
Neuron K8 Release Notes#
Introduction#
This document lists the current release notes for AWS Neuron Kubernetes (k8) components. Neuron K8 components include a device plugin and a scheduler extension to assist with deployment and management of inf/trn nodes within Kubernetes clusters. Both components are offered as pre-built containers in Public ECR and ready for deployment.
Device Plugin: public.ecr.aws/neuron/neuron-device-plugin:2.x.y.z
Neuron Scheduler: public.ecr.aws/neuron/neuron-scheduler:2.x.y.z
It’s recommended to pin the version of the components used and to never use the “latest” tag. To get the list of image tags (2.x.y.z), please refer to these notes or check the image tags on the repo directly.
To Pull the Images from ECR:
docker pull public.ecr.aws/neuron/neuron-device-plugin:2.x.y.z
docker pull public.ecr.aws/neuron/neuron-scheduler:2.x.y.z
Neuron K8 release [2.22.20.0]#
Date: 11/20/2024
Bug fixes#
This release addresses a stability issue in the Neuron Scheduler Extension that previously caused crashes shortly after installation.
Neuron K8 release [2.22.4.0]#
Date: 09/16/2024
New Features#
This release introduces the Neuron Helm Chart, which helps streamline the deployment of AWS Neuron components on Amazon EKS. More information can be found in the GitHub repo: aws-neuron/neuron-helm-charts.
Adds ECS support for the “Neuron Node Problem Detector and Recovery” artifact. More information can be found in the Neuron docs: https://awsdocs-neuron.readthedocs-hosted.com/en/latest/general/devflows/plugins/npd-ecs-flows.html#ecs-neuron-problem-detector-and-recovery.
Improvements#
Improves scalability and performance of the Neuron Device Plugin and Neuron Scheduler Extension by skipping “list” calls from the device plugin to the scheduler in situations where the pod allocation request either needs one or all the available resources in the node.
End of Support#
Ends support for resource name ‘neurondevice’ with the Neuron Device Plugin. More information can be found in the announcement: https://awsdocs-neuron.readthedocs-hosted.com/en/latest/general/announcements/neuron2.x/announce-eos-neurondevice.html
Neuron K8 release [2.21.14.0]#
Date: 07/03/2024
Critical Security Patch#
We updated the dependencies used by the Neuron Device Plugin and the Neuron Kubernetes Scheduler to fix several important security vulnerabilities. This update fixes all security vulnerabilities reported in aws-neuron/aws-neuron-sdk#852. Please see the ticket for all impacted dependencies and their associated vulnerabilities.
New Features#
This release introduces Neuron Node Problem Detector And Recovery artifact to enable fast error detection and recovery in Kubernetes environment. Current version supports EKS managed and self-managed node groups for all EKS supported Kubernetes versions.
This release introduces a container image for neuron monitor to make it easy to run neuron monitor along with Prometheus and Grafana to monitor neuron metrics in Kubernetes environments.
Bug fixes#
This release contains changes to improve performance of the device plugin at scale.
Neuron K8 release [2.20.13.0]#
Date: 04/01/2024
Summary#
Minor updates.
Neuron K8 release [2.19.16.0]#
Date: 01/18/2024
Critical Security Patch#
We updated the dependencies used by the Neuron Device Plugin and the Neuron Kubernetes Scheduler to fix several important security vulnerabilities. This update fixes all security vulnerabilities reported in aws-neuron/aws-neuron-sdk#817. Please see the ticket for all impacted dependencies and their associated vulnerabilities.
Neuron K8 release [2.16.18.0]#
Date: 09/01/2023
Major New Features#
This release enables easier programmability by using 0-based indexing for Neuron Devices and NeuronCores in EKS container environments. Previously, the Neuron Device indexing was assigned randomly. This change requires Neuron Driver version 2.12.14 or newer.
Improved logging when Neuron Driver not installed/present.
Bug Fixes#
Fixed Neuron Device Plugin crash when Neuron Driver is not installed/present on the host.
Fixed issue where pods fail to deploy when multiple containers are requesting Neuron resources.
Fixed issue where launching many pods each requesting Neuron cores fails to deploy.
Neuron K8 release [2.1.0.0]#
Date: 10/27/2022
Summary#
Added support for NeuronCore based scheduling to the Neuron Kubernetes Scheduler. Learn more about how to use NeuronCores for finer grain control over container scheduling by following the K8 tutorials documentation in the containers section.
Neuron K8 release [2.0.0.0]#
Date: 10/10/2022
Summary#
Added support for TRN1 and INF1 EC2 instance types.
Neuron K8 release [1.9.3.0]#
Date: 08/02/2022
Summary#
Minor updates.
Neuron K8 release [1.9.2.0]#
Date: 05/27/2022
Summary#
Minor updates.
Neuron K8 release [1.9.0.0]#
Date: 04/29/2022
Summary#
Minor updates.
Neuron K8 release [1.8.2.0]#
Date: 03/25/2022
Summary#
Minor updates.
Neuron K8 release [1.7.7.0]#
Date: 01/20/2022
Summary#
Minor updates
Neuron K8 release [1.7.3.0]#
Date: 10/27/2021
Summary#
Minor updates
[1.6.22.0]#
Date: 08/30/2021
Summary#
Minor updates.
[1.6.15.0]#
Date: 08/06/2021
Summary#
Minor updates.
[1.6.7.0]#
Date: 07/26/2021
Summary#
Minor internal enhancements.
[1.6.0.0]#
Date: 07/02/2021
Summary#
Minor internal enhancements.
[1.5.3.0]#
Date: 05/01/2021
Summary#
Minor internal enhancements.
[1.4.1.0]#
Date: 01/30/2021
Summary#
Minor internal enhancements.
[1.3.2.0]#
Date: 12/23/2020
Summary#
Minor internal enhancements.
[1.2.0.0]#
Date: 11/17/2020
Summary#
Minor internal enhancements.
[1.1.23.0]#
Date: 10/22/2020
Summary#
Support added for use with Neuron Runtime 1.1. More details in the Neuron Runtime release notes at neuron-runtime-release-notes.
[1.1.17.0]#
Date: 09/22/2020
Summary#
Minor internal enhancements.
[1.0.11000.0]#
Date: 08/08/2020
Summary#
First release of the Neuron K8 Scheduler extension.
Major New Features#
New scheduler extension is provided to ensure that kubelet is scheduling pods on inf1 with contiguous device ids. Additional details about the new scheduler are provided neuron-k8-scheduler-ext. including instructions on how to apply it.
NOTE: The scheduler is only required when using inf1.6xlarge and/or inf1.24xlarge
With this release the device plugin now requires RBAC permission changes to get/patch NODE/POD objects. Please apply the k8s-neuron-device-plugin-rbac.yml before using the new device plugin.
Resolved Issues#
Scheduler is intended to address aws/aws-neuron-sdk#110
This document is relevant for: Inf1, Inf2, Trn1, Trn2