The release notes for Red Hat OpenShift for Windows Containers tracks the development of the Windows Machine Config Operator (WMCO), which provides all Windows container workload capabilities in OpenShift Container Platform.
Y-stream releases of the WMCO are in step with OpenShift Container Platform, with only z-stream releases between OpenShift Container Platform releases. The WMCO numbering reflects the associated OpenShift Container Platform version in the y-stream position. For example, the current release of WMCO is associated with OpenShift Container Platform version 4.16. Thus, the numbering is WMCO 10.15.z.
This release of the WMCO provides new features and bug fixes for running Windows compute nodes in an OpenShift Container Platform cluster. The components of the WMCO 10.16.1 were released in RHSA-2024:5749.
Previously, if a Windows VM had its PowerShell ExecutionPolicy
set to Restricted
, the Windows Instance Config Daemon (WICD) could not run the commands on that VM that are necessary for creating Windows nodes. With this fix, the WICD now bypasses the execution policy on the VM when running PowerShell commands. As a result, the WICD can create Windows nodes on the VM as expected. (OCPBUGS-37609)