Changes and Releases

Updates on Giant Swarm workload cluster releases, apps, UI improvements and documentation changes.

• Aug 19, 2024 Observability Platform mimir-app v0.12.0

  Added

  • Add vpa resource template for the chunks cache.
• Aug 15, 2024 Managed Apps auth-bundle v0.2.2
• Aug 13, 2024 Managed Apps athena v1.12.4

  Added

  • Made GraphQL introspection configurable and disabled by default

  Changed

  • Change ImagePullPolicy from Always to IfNotPresent to reduce image network traffic.
• Aug 13, 2024 Managed Apps grafana-app v2.14.0

  Changed

  • upgrade grafana chart: 8.3.4 => 8.4.4
  • upgrade grafana : 11.1.0 => 11.1.3
• Aug 13, 2024 Observability Platform grafana-app v2.14.0

  Changed

  • upgrade grafana chart: 8.3.4 => 8.4.4
  • upgrade grafana : 11.1.0 => 11.1.3
• Aug 13, 2024 Workload cluster releases for Azure releases azure-29.0.0

  Changes compared to v28.0.0

  Components

  • Kubernetes from v1.28.12 to v1.29.7

  Apps

  • azure-cloud-controller-manager from v1.28.10-gs1 to v1.29.8-gs1
  • azure-cloud-node-manager from v1.28.10-gs1 to v1.29.8-gs1

  azure-cloud-controller-manager v1.28.10-gs1…v1.29.8-gs1

  Changed

  • Chart: Update to upstream v1.29.8. (#83)

  azure-cloud-node-manager v1.28.10-gs1…v1.29.8-gs1

  Changed

  • Chart: Update to upstream v1.29.8. (#72)
• Aug 13, 2024 Platform API organization-operator v2.0.1

  Changed

  • Workflows update with devctl
  • Implemented fixes on organization/namespace deletion
• Aug 13, 2024 Managed Apps falco-app v0.9.0

  Added

  • Add custom rule to detect access to root CA key file in control plane nodes
  • Added the falco-k8s-metacollector.
  • Added team label to the daemonset.

  Changed

  • Remove API check on PolicyException.
  • Updated Falco chart version from 3.8.1 to 4.6.1.
  • Updated Falco-exporter chart version from 0.9.9 to 0.11.0
  • Updated Falcosidekick chart version from 0.7.5 to 0.8.2
  • Updated Falco to upstream version 0.38.1.
  • Edited Kyverno Policy Exceptions to allow falco-k8s-metacollector.
  • Edited the Falco Cilium Network Policy to allow traffing from the falco-k8s-metacollector.
• Aug 12, 2024 Workload cluster releases for Azure releases azure-28.0.0

  Changes compared to v27.0.0

  Components

  • Kubernetes from v1.27.16 to v1.28.12

  Apps

  • azure-cloud-controller-manager from v1.27.18-gs1 to v1.28.10-gs1
  • azure-cloud-node-manager from v1.27.18-gs1 to v1.28.10-gs1

  azure-cloud-controller-manager v1.27.18-gs1…v1.28.10-gs1

  Changed

  • Chart: Update to upstream v1.28.10. (#82)

  azure-cloud-node-manager v1.27.18-gs1…v1.28.10-gs1

  Changed

  • Chart: Update to upstream v1.28.10. (#71)
• Aug 12, 2024 Workload cluster releases for Azure releases azure-27.0.0

  Changes compared to v26.0.0

  Components

  • cluster-azure from v0.18.0 to v1.0.0
  • Flatcar from v3815.2.4 to v3815.2.5
  • Kubernetes from v1.26.15 to v1.27.16

  cluster-azure v0.18.0…v1.0.0

  Changed

  • Chart: Update cluster to v1.1.0. (#325)
    • Machine Template: Adapt new image format.
    • Apps: Enable observability-policies.

  Apps

  • azure-cloud-controller-manager from v1.26.22-gs2 to v1.27.18-gs1
  • azure-cloud-node-manager from v1.26.22-gs2 to v1.27.18-gs1
  • cert-exporter from v2.9.0 to v2.9.1
  • cert-manager from v3.7.6 to v3.8.1
  • k8s-audit-metrics from v0.9.0 to v0.10.0
  • k8s-dns-node-cache from v2.6.2 to v2.8.1
  • net-exporter from v1.19.0 to v1.21.0
  • observability-bundle from v1.3.4 to v1.5.3
  • observability-policies v0.0.1
  • security-bundle from v1.7.1 to v1.8.0
  • teleport-kube-agent from v0.9.0 to v0.9.2
  • vertical-pod-autoscaler from v5.2.2 to v5.2.4

  azure-cloud-controller-manager v1.26.22-gs2…v1.27.18-gs1

  Changed

  • Chart: Update to upstream v1.27.18. (#81)

  azure-cloud-node-manager v1.26.22-gs2…v1.27.18-gs1

  Changed

  • Chart: Update to upstream v1.27.18. (#70)

  cert-exporter v2.9.0…v2.9.1

  Changed

  • Chart: Update PolicyExceptions to v2beta1. (#358)

  cert-manager v3.7.6…v3.8.1

  Added

  • Improves container security by setting runAsGroup and runAsUser greater than zero for all deployments.

  Changed

  • Bump architect-orb@5.3.1 to fix CVE-2024-24790.
  • Improves cainjector’s Vertical Pod Autoscaler
  • Remove quotes from acme-http01-solver-image argument. The quotes are used when looking up the image which causes an error.
  • Changed the way registry is being parsed in helm templates
  • Enable VPA by default

  k8s-audit-metrics v0.9.0…v0.10.0

  Changed

  • Add securityContext.readOnlyRootFilesystem helm value (default true).

  k8s-dns-node-cache v2.6.2…v2.8.1

  Changed

  • Make the app visible for all providers.
  • Reduce security exceptions #89.
    • Enable readOnly FS moving config to emptyDir volume.
    • Remove NET_ADMIN and drop ALL capabilities.
    • Add NET_BIND_SERVICE capability.
    • Add policy exception for require-non-root-groups/autogen-check-runasgroup.
    • Remove disallow-capabilities-* policy exceptions.
  • Update PolicyException CR version to v2beta1.

  net-exporter v1.19.0…v1.21.0

  Changed

  • Enable readOnlyRootFilesystem in securityContext (#376)[https://github.com/giantswarm/net-exporter/pull/376].
  • Update module google.golang.org/grpc to v1.65.0 (#373).
  • Update k8s modules to v0.30.2 (#375).
  • Update quay.io/giantswarm/alpine Docker tag to v3.20.1 (#372).
  • Add node and app labels in ServiceMonitor.

  observability-bundle v1.3.4…v1.5.3

  Added

  • Add alloy v0.3.0 as alloy-logs

  Changed

  • Rename alloy-logs app to camel case alloyLogs.
  • Fix CNP issues (allow traffic from pods in kube-system to nginx-ingress-controller)
    • Upgrade grafana-agent to 0.4.5.
    • Upgrade alloy to 0.3.1.
    • Upgrade promtail to 1.5.4.
  • Upgrade prometheus-operator-crd to 11.0.1.
  • prometheus-operator will not check promql syntax for prometheusRules that are labelled application.giantswarm.io/prometheus-rule-kind: loki
  • Upgrade kube-prometheus-stack to 11.0.0 and prometheus-operator-crd to 11.0.0. This upgrade mainly consists in:
    • kube-prometheus-stack dependency chart upgraded from 56.21.2 to 61.0.0
    • prometheus upgrade from 2.50.1 to 2.53.0
    • thanos ruler upgrade from 0.34.1 to 0.35.1
    • kube-state-metrics from 2.10.0 to 2.12.0
    • prometheus-operator from 0.71.2 0.75.0 - adding remoteWrite.proxyFromEnvironment and Scrape Class support
    • prometheus-node-exporter upgraded from 1.8.0 to 1.8.1
  • Upgrade grafana-agent from 0.4.3 to 0.4.4
    • This version enables the override the grafana agent CiliumNetworkPolicy egress and ingress sections.

  observability-policies v0.0.1

  Added

  • Add a ClusterPolicy to prevent prometheus-operator CRDs deletion.
  • Create observability-policies app to deploy Kyverno Observability Policies into clusters.

  security-bundle v1.7.1…v1.8.0

  Added

  • Add kyverno-crds app to handle Kyverno CRD install.

  Changed

  • Update kyverno (app) to v0.17.15. This version disables the CRD install job in favor of kyverno-crds App.

  teleport-kube-agent v0.9.0…v0.9.2

  Changed

  • Introduced podAntiAffinity so teleport-kube-agent pods run on different control-plane nodes also increased the number of replicas to 3 to maintain better high availability.
  • Changed the way registry is being parsed in helm templates

  vertical-pod-autoscaler v5.2.2…v5.2.4

  Changed

  • Chart: Update Helm release vertical-pod-autoscaler to v9.8.3. (#301)
  • Chart: Change restartPolicy to OnFailure for the CRD job. (#298)

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