Chapter 3. Changes and improvements

This section highlights some of the notable changes introduced in CodeReady Containers 1.32.

3.1. New features

  • CodeReady Containers brings a minimal, preconfigured OpenShift Container Platform 4 cluster to your local laptop or desktop computer for development and testing purposes. CodeReady Containers is delivered as a Red Hat Enterprise Linux virtual machine that supports native hypervisors for Linux, macOS, and Microsoft Windows 10.

    • CodeReady Containers is designed for local development and testing on an OpenShift 4 cluster. To run an OpenShift 3 cluster locally, see Red Hat Container Development Kit.

3.1.1. Technology Previews

Support for these features falls under the Technology Preview Features Support Scope.

  • CodeReady Containers 1.32 includes the ability to create a custom bundle based on the currently running cluster with the crc bundle generate command. This command, its parameters, and behavior may change in incompatible ways in future releases.

3.2. Notable changes

  • CodeReady Containers 1.32 provides OpenShift Container Platform 4.8.5 as the embedded OpenShift version.
  • On Microsoft Windows, user network mode is now the only network mode available. User network mode requires a running CodeReady Containers system tray or crc daemon.