Deprecation notice of NAD query

[Nir Dothan]

Hello everyone,

As part of VEP #106, beginning with the KubeVirt 1.8 release we plan to start the deprecation of KubeVirt's direct access to the network-attachment-definition (NAD) CRD.

This functionality will be gated behind a feature gate for approximately 2–3 releases, with the current plan to remove it entirely in release 1.10 or 1.11.

As a replacement, clusters will be required to have the network-resources-injector component installed as a new dependency.

This change only affects environments where NADs contain custom resource mappings, expressed via the k8s.v1.cni.cncf.io/resourceName annotation (e.g., SR-IOV, bridge-marker, macvlan).

Please review the proposal and share your feedback.

Regards,
SIG Network

[Nir Dothan]

Hello KubeVirt devs,

This is a reminder that release 1.9 enables Beta Feature Gates by default, which includes the ExternalNetResourceInjection FG.

Therefore all clusters using Mutlus must have the network-resources-injector deployed. In case you cannot deploy it for any reason, please enable the feature gate to avoid scheduling issues.

In addition, in release 1.10 we are planning to graduate the feature, thus removing the Feature Gate.

If you have any questions, issues or concerns please contact us via email or github issue tagged /sig-network.

Regards,
SIG Network