[Container-tools] Minishift-1.2.0 release announcement

[Gerard Braad]

Hi All,


The Minishift team is pleased to announce the release of Minishift 1.2.0.


Minishift [1] is a command-line tool that provisions and manages a
single-node OpenShift cluster. You can run Minishift on GNU/Linux,
Microsoft Windows or macOS.


Release highlights
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This release adds many features, enhancements, and bug fixes, including:


    •  The ability to cache OpenShift container images

This functionality allows the OpenShift container images to be cached
on the host. When a new Minishift instance is created, these container
images will be imported transparently, improving provisioning time and
reducing network traffic. Although this functionality is currently
experimental, we would really like to receive feedback. You can use
this feature by enabling  it as follows:

    `minishift config set image-caching true`

Once enabled, Minishift will cache the OpenShift origin images, as
well as the registry and router images, when Minishift is started.

After a successful provisioning of the cluster, the images are
exported using a background process. Provided the images are cached,
they will be imported during successive VM creation.


    •  Easy update of the Minishift binary

To try the latest  Minishift release you can download the latest
release from Github. Or you could just do the following, provided you
already use Minishift 1.1.0:

    `minishift update`


    •  Shorthand download of the CentOS ISO

To enable users to use CentOS for running the single-node OpenShift
cluster, we have added a shorthand to download the ISO image.

    `minishift start --iso-url centos`

This command will start Minishift with the latest release of the
CentOS ISO image.


    •  Default add-ons

Default add-ons are now installed as part of `minishift start` which
allows user to easily enable and apply its functionality.


This release also includes many changes and bug fixes, which are
detailed in the release notes  [2]. For information about getting
started, using, and developing Minishift, see the documentation [3].


Please give the new release a try and let us know your feedback. The
Minishift community hangs out at #minishift channel on Freenode and it
is the perfect place to discuss anything Minishift related.


[1] https://github.com/minishift/minishift
[2] https://github.com/minishift/minishift/releases/tag/v1.2.0
[3] https://docs.openshift.org/latest/minishift