Changes and Releases

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

• Dec 12, 2024 Workload cluster releases for VSPHERE releases vsphere-29.2.0

  Changes compared to v29.1.0

  Components

  • cluster-vsphere from v0.66.0 to v0.68.0
  • Kubernetes from v1.29.10 to v1.29.12

  cluster-vsphere v0.66.0…v0.68.0

  Breaking change

  [!CAUTION] The interface for setting annotations on the vsphereCluster CR has changed.

  Upgrade guide: how to migrate values (from v0.66.0)

  The additionalVsphereClusterAnnotations field is now an array of strings to accomodate for escape characters. Convert your dictionary to an array of strings as per the following example.

  Old interface for annotations:

  global:
    providerSpecific:
      additionalVsphereClusterAnnotations:
        my-key: "my-value"
  

  New interface for annotations:

  global:
    providerSpecific:
      additionalVsphereClusterAnnotations:
        - "my-key: value"
  

  Changed

  • Chart: Update cluster to v1.7.0.
    • Add teleport-init systemd unit to handle initial token setup before teleport service starts
    • Improve teleport service reliability by adding proper file and service dependencies and pre-start checks
  • Change global.providerSpecific.additionalVsphereClusterAnnotations attribute into an array.

  Apps

  • cert-manager from v3.8.1 to v3.8.2
  • coredns from v1.22.0 to v1.23.0
  • observability-bundle from v1.8.0 to v1.9.0

  cert-manager v3.8.1…v3.8.2

  Changed

  • Changed ownership to team Shield

  Removed

  • Get rid of label giantswarm.io/monitoring_basic_sli as this slo generation label is not used anymore.

  coredns v1.22.0…v1.23.0

  Changed

  • Update coredns image to 1.11.4.
  • Explicitly expose liveness and readiness probe ports in deployments.

  Removed

  • Remove PodSecurityPolicy and associated Resources and values.

  observability-bundle v1.8.0…v1.9.0

  Added

  • Add alloy v0.7.0 as alloyEvents.

  Changed

  • Upgrade alloy-logs and alloy-metrics to chart 0.7.0.
    • Bumps alloy from 1.4.2 to 1.5.0
  • upgrade kube-prometheus-stack from 65.1.1 to 66.2.1
    • prometheus-operator CRDs from 0.75.0 to 0.78.1
    • prometheus-operator from 0.77.1 to 0.78.1
    • prometheus from 2.54.1 to 2.55.1
    • kube-state-metrics from 2.13.0 to 2.14.0
    • grafana from 8.5.0 to 8.6.0
• Dec 12, 2024 Web UI backstage v0.45.2

  In this release GitHub app credentials were made optional. BACKSTAGE_ENVIRONMENT environment variable was removed.

• Dec 12, 2024 Web UI backstage v0.45.1

  In this release BACKEND_SECRET environment variable was removed.

• Dec 11, 2024 Web UI backstage v0.45.0

  This release changes main site authentication from GitHub to Dex. See ./docs/releases/v0.45.0-changelog.md for more information.

• Dec 11, 2024 Platform API kyverno-policies v0.21.1

  Changed

  • Add application.giantswarm.io/team label to policies.
• Dec 10, 2024 Observability Platform mimir-app v0.15.0

  Added

  • Add “manual e2e” testing procedure.
  • Add configuration for alertmanager component to be HA.
• Dec 10, 2024 Web UI backstage v0.44.0

  This release adds a custom logger service that reports errors to Sentry to the backend package. See ./docs/releases/v0.44.0-changelog.md for more information.

• Dec 10, 2024 Web UI backstage v0.43.0

  In this release:

  • Backstage was updated to v1.33.5;
  • Other project dependencies were updated. See ./docs/releases/v0.43.0-changelog.md for more information.
• Dec 3, 2024 Managed Apps cert-manager-app v3.8.2

  Fix

  • added the option to configure additional approveSignerNames

  Changed

  • Changed ownership to team Shield

  Removed

  • Get rid of label giantswarm.io/monitoring_basic_sli as this slo generation label is not used anymore.
• Dec 3, 2024 Observability Platform grafana-app v2.18.0

  Changed

  • Add Ingress dummy paths to block access to the /swagger, /metrics, and /api/health endpoints by default.

  Changed

  • upgrade grafana chart: 8.5.12 => 8.6.0

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