Highlights for the week ending 2024-11-21

Observability

• Alloy app version 0.7.0

  • We’ve upgraded the Alloy base chart to version0.10.0, bringing Alloy itself to version 1.5.0. This update includes the latest features and improvements for enhanced performance and stability.

• Alloy gateway app version 0.2.0

  • The Alloy gateway app now uses Alloy version 1.5.0, which includes important fixes for clustering with Cilium Network Policies.

• Fluent log-shipping app version 5.3.1

  • We’ve fixed an issue with the fluent-bit image by adding the missing auditd libraries, enabling the use of ausearch for more comprehensive auditing capabilities.

• Logging operator version 0.15.2

  • This update ensures compatibility with the latest Alloy logs by supporting the new secret mechanism, designed to work with Alloy 0.4.0 and the observability bundle 1.6.0. Additionally, if your deployment supports it, Vertical Pod Autoscaling (VPA) will be enabled for Alloy.

• Dashboards version 3.26.1

  • We’ve added a new “Mimir / Continuous Test” dashboard and improved the “Management Cluster Overview” dashboard for better monitoring insights.

• Observability bundle version 1.9.0

  • The latest bundle now includes Alloy version 1.5.0 with new event logging capabilities. We’ve also upgraded various components: alloy-logs and alloy-metrics to version 0.7.0, kube-prometheus-stack to 66.2.1, and other key monitoring tools like Prometheus, Grafana, and kube-state-metrics to their latest versions for enhanced observability.

• Observability operator version 0.9.0

  • This release introduces new features for managing Grafana organizations, including their creation and configuration. It also addresses installation issues with the latest Alloy Metrics release and improves test reliability by updating Python dependencies and configuring required secrets.

• Kube Prometheus stack app version 13.0.1

  • We’ve updated our chart dependencies to the latest versions, including kube-prometheus-stack 66.2.1 and Prometheus Operator 0.78.1, along with Grafana’s upgrade to 8.6.0. These updates bring improved performance and new features to your monitoring stack.

Connectivity

• ingress-nginx-app version 3.9.3 * Update ingress-nginx controller to v1.11.3, update Kube Webhook CertGen image to v1.4.4. Additionally some minor updates to the chart got implemented
• cilium-app version 0.29.0 * Upgrade Cilium to v1.16.3, please also check the upstream changelog for all changes.

Continuous deployment

• external-secrets version 0.11.1 * Update image version to v0.10.5 to resolve issue with failing to auth to kubernetes using client certs
• zot version 2.0.1 * Fixed duplicate entry in ServiceMonitor resources

Security

• security-bundle version 1.9.1 * The security bundle now contains trivy-app version 0.13.1 and trivy-operator-app version 0.10.3