This Month in SAS Viya (February-May 2024)

  • SAS Viya
  • Command-line interface
Key SAS Viya updates you need to know for February-May 2024. 

The SAS Viya command-line interface (CLI) allows direct interaction with the SAS Viya REST services through command-line inputs, offering a programmatic alternative to the SAS Viya graphical user interfaces (GUIs).

Previously the only deployment option for the sas-viya CLI was to install locally on a machine running Linux, Windows or OSX.

With the March stable release of SAS Viya (2024.03) the sas-viya CLI is now available as a container image. The container image includes the sas-viya CLI and scripts for batch processing within SAS Viya Platform deployments or as an independent container.

The containerised deployment offers several benefits:

  • Consistency across deployments
  • Simplified deployment and maintenance
  • Efficient resource use
  • Isolated and secure operations
  • Portability

For more information about the new containerized SAS Viya command-line interface (CLI) please see SAS® Viya® Platform Administration: Command-Line Interface.

A key consideration when upgrading SAS Viya is to ensure the versions of the following platform components are supported.

From the May stable release (2024.05), the following supported versions have changed:

  • Kubernetes
    • Support for Kubernetes 1.29.x has been added but Kubernetes 1.26.x and earlier are no longer supported.
  • NGINX Ingress Controller
    • Version 1.7.1 or later of the NGINX ingress control is now required, in the previous release version 1.6.4 and later were supported.
  • Kustomize
    • Kustomize 5.3.0 is required in this latest 2024.05 release, releases from 2024.04 to 2023.12 continue to require Kustomize 5.1.1.

From the February stable release (2024.02), the following versions were supported:

  • Kubernetes
    • Support for Kubernetes 1.28.x has been added but Kubernetes 1.25.x and earlier are no longer supported.
  • NGINX Ingress Controller
    • Version 1.6.4 or later of the NGINX ingress control is now required, in the previous release version 1.4.0 and later were supported.

Further information about these releases can be found in the links below:

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