CDK is known to be highly available, deployable virtually everywhere, extensible, provide TLS (Transport Layer Security) encryption support, deploy EasyRSA for PKI (Private Key Infrastructure) to encrypt all the network traffic in the cluster, and come with common operational tasks baked in. Prominent features of this release include the ability to install the Kubernetes components via Snaps, new allow-privileged configuration option for both the kubernetes-worker and kubernetes-master charms, experimental GPU support (Nvidia and CUDA), and support for running your own private registry.