Highlights for the week ending 2025-03-18

General

Apps

• dashboards

  • 4.3.0
    • Add Observability Resource Usage dashboard
    • Add Backstage dashboard

• logging-operator

  • [0.25.1](https://github.com/giantswarm/logging- operator/compare/v0.25.0…v0.25.1)
    • Stop caching helm secrets in the operator to reduce resource usage.
  • [0.25.0](https://github.com/giantswarm/logging- operator/compare/v0.24.1…v0.25.0)
    • Adds support to include and exclude event collection per namespace in workload clusters. If nothing is configured, the event collector will collect all events in the WC.
    • Fix incorrect config generation introduced by the tenant governance which defaults to alloy as a logshipper, even on promtail-equiped clusters.
    • Clean up some legacy paths that are not useful anymore.

• object-storage-operator

  • [0.10.3](https://github.com/giantswarm/object-storage- operator/compare/v0.10.2…v0.10.3)
    • Stop caching helm secrets in the operator to reduce resource usage.
    • Use smaller dockerfile to reduce build time as ABS already generates the go binary.

• observability-operator

  • [0.19.4](https://github.com/giantswarm/observability- operator/compare/v0.19.3…v0.19.4)
    • Revert caching tuning for configmaps and pods because it was causing api false answers.
  • [0.19.3](https://github.com/giantswarm/observability- operator/compare/v0.19.2…v0.19.3)
    • Stop caching helm secrets in the operator to reduce resource usage.
    • Cache only the dashboards configmap in the operator to reduce resource usage.
    • Cache only the alertmanager and grafana pods in the operator to reduce resource usage.
    • Remove cleanup code for Mimir Alertmanager anonymous tenant’s configuration.
    • Remove cleanup code for Mimir Ruler anonymous tenant’s rules.

• prometheus-rules

  • [4.49.3](https://github.com/giantswarm/prometheus- rules/compare/v4.49.2…v4.49.3)

    • Increase threshold time for KubeStateMetricsSlow from 7s to 15s.

  • [4.49.2](https://github.com/giantswarm/prometheus- rules/compare/v4.49.1…v4.49.2)

    • Fixed some grafana-cloud recording rules to specifically use metrics giantswarm metrics
    • Update PromtailRequestsErrors to fire after 1h instead of 25min.
    • Update PromtailRequestsErrors to cancel outside of working hours.

  • [4.49.1](https://github.com/giantswarm/prometheus- rules/compare/v4.49.0…v4.49.1)

    • Update MimirDataPushFailures runbook url.

  • [4.49.0](https://github.com/giantswarm/prometheus- rules/compare/v4.48.0…v4.49.0)

    • Rename MimirObjectStoreLowRate to MimirDataPushFailures and update its expression to only target upload operations from the ingester component.

• cluster-apps-operator

  • [3.1.2](https://github.com/giantswarm/cluster-apps- operator/compare/v3.1.1…v3.1.2)
    • Update app-operator to version 7.1.1.

• hello-world-app

  • 2.8.0
    • Add HTTP->HTTPS redirect in the HTTPRoute CR.

• konfigure-operator

  • [0.1.0](https://github.com/giantswarm/konfigure- operator/compare/v0.1.0…v0.1.0)
    • Initial implementation according to: https://github.com/giantswarm/rfc/pull/108

• aws-cloud-controller-manager-app

  • [1.30.8-gs1](https://github.com/giantswarm/aws-cloud-controller-manager- app/compare/v1.30.7-gs3…v1.30.8-gs1)
    • Chart: Update to upstream v1.30.8.

• aws-ebs-csi-driver-app

  • [3.0.5](https://github.com/giantswarm/aws-ebs-csi-driver- app/compare/v3.0.4…v3.0.5)
    • Chart: Update snapshot-controller to v8.2.1. (#283)
  • [3.0.4](https://github.com/giantswarm/aws-ebs-csi-driver- app/compare/v3.0.3…v3.0.4)
    • Chart: Sync to upstream. (#264)

• aws-pod-identity-webhook

  • [1.19.1](https://github.com/giantswarm/aws-pod-identity- webhook/compare/v1.19.0…v1.19.1)
    • Go: Update dependencies.

• kube-downscaler-app

  • [0.6.1](https://github.com/giantswarm/kube-downscaler- app/compare/v0.6.0…v0.6.1)
    • Fix ciliumnetpol’s endpointSelector.
  • [0.6.0](https://github.com/giantswarm/kube-downscaler- app/compare/v0.5.0…v0.6.0)
    • Update chart’s image.

• cloud-provider-vsphere-app

  • [2.0.1](https://github.com/giantswarm/cloud-provider-vsphere- app/compare/v2.0.0…v2.0.1)
    • Ensure the Helm chart name stays consistent.
  • [2.0.0](https://github.com/giantswarm/cloud-provider-vsphere- app/compare/v1.12.0…v2.0.0)
    • Remove subcharts in order to deploy only the vSphere CPI (at upstream version v1.30.0).

• cluster-cloud-director

  • [0.65.0](https://github.com/giantswarm/cluster-cloud- director/compare/v0.64.2…v0.65.0)
    • Chart: Update cluster to v2.1.1.
    • Chart: Enable coredns-extensions and etcd-defrag.

• cluster-vsphere

  • [1.0.0](https://github.com/giantswarm/cluster- vsphere/compare/v0.69.0…v1.0.0)
    • Split cloud provider app into separate HelmReleases.
    • Add global.providerSpecific.templateSuffix to set a suffix on the VM template to use.

• kube-vip-cloud-provider-app

  • [0.3.0](https://github.com/giantswarm/kube-vip-cloud-provider- app/compare/v0.2.0…v0.3.0)
    • Run container with a read-only filesystem.

• vsphere-csi-driver-app

  • [3.4.2](https://github.com/giantswarm/vsphere-csi-driver- app/compare/v3.4.1…v3.4.2)
    • Correct kubectl image tag.
    • Remove superfluous update script.

• cloudnative-pg-app

  • [0.0.7](https://github.com/giantswarm/cloudnative-pg- app/compare/v0.0.6…v0.0.7)
    • Push to CAPI app collections.
    • grafana dashboard: load it to Shared Org (public) organization

• rbac-operator

  • [0.42.0](https://github.com/giantswarm/rbac- operator/compare/v0.41.1…v0.42.0)
    • Added support for read-all-customer-groups bindings.
    • Change ownership to Team Shield

• trivy-app

  • 0.13.4
    • Add API capabilities check for Kyverno PolicyExceptions before switching to v2.
  • 0.13.3
    • Make livenessProbe.initialDelaySeconds configurable.

• cluster

  • 2.2.0
    • Preventing container with Nvidia runtime taking down the whole node going OOM by properly isolating the container.
    • Apps: Remove source config from external-dns defaults.

• cluster-autoscaler-app

  • [1.30.4-gs1](https://github.com/giantswarm/cluster-autoscaler- app/compare/v1.30.3-gs2…v1.30.4-gs1)
    • Chart: Update to upstream v1.30.4. (#308)

• etcd-backup-operator

  • [4.10.1](https://github.com/giantswarm/etcd-backup- operator/compare/v4.10.0…v4.10.1)
    • Ensure the default clustersToExcludeRegex doesn’t match any clusters

• etcd-kubernetes-resources-count-exporter

  • [1.10.3](https://github.com/giantswarm/etcd-kubernetes-resources-count- exporter/compare/v1.10.2…v1.10.3)
    • Go: Update dependencies.
  • [1.10.2](https://github.com/giantswarm/etcd-kubernetes-resources-count- exporter/compare/v1.10.1…v1.10.2)
    • Go: Update dependencies.

• node-exporter-app

  • [1.20.2](https://github.com/giantswarm/node-exporter- app/compare/v1.20.1…v1.20.2)
    • Go: Update dependencies.

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