Changes and Releases

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

• Oct 15, 2024 Fleet Management kubectl-gs v4.2.0

  Changed

  • BREAKING When templating cluster manifests for CAPV clusters with kubectl gs template cluster command, now we set the workload cluster release version via the --release flag, instead setting cluster-vsphere version via --cluster-version.
• Oct 14, 2024 Observability mimir-app v0.14.0

  Changed

  • Upgrade chart to version 5.5.0 and mimir 2.14.0.
    • Memcached: Update to Memcached 1.6.31-alpine and memcached-exporter 0.14.4.
    • Ingester: set GOMAXPROCS to help with Go scheduling overhead when running on machines with lots of CPU cores.
    • Add missing container security context to run continuous-test under the restricted security policy.
• Oct 14, 2024 Observability dashboards v3.25.0

  Added

  • Added “Loki - Slow Queries” dashboard

  Changed

  • Change ownership from BigMac to Shield
• Oct 11, 2024 Observability kube-prometheus-stack-app v12.0.0

  Changed

  • Upgraded chart dependency to kube-prometheus-stack-65.1.1
    • prometheus-operator from 0.75.0 to 0.77.1
    • prometheus upgraded from 2.53.0 to 2.54.1
    • grafana from 8.2.0 to 8.5.0
    • thanos ruler upgraded from 0.35.1 to 0.36.1
    • prometheus-node-exporter upgraded from 1.8.1 to 1.8.2

  Removed

  • Get rid of legacy in-house slo framework.
• Oct 11, 2024 Observability prometheus-operator-app v12.0.0

  Changed

  • Upgraded chart dependency to kube-prometheus-stack-65.1.1
    • prometheus-operator from 0.75.0 to 0.77.1
    • prometheus upgraded from 2.53.0 to 2.54.1
    • grafana from 8.2.0 to 8.5.0
    • thanos ruler upgraded from 0.35.1 to 0.36.1
    • prometheus-node-exporter upgraded from 1.8.1 to 1.8.2

  Removed

  • Get rid of legacy in-house slo framework.
• Oct 11, 2024 Developer Portal happa v1.68.1

  What’s Changed

  • Fixed several links to documentation by @marians in https://github.com/giantswarm/happa/pull/4627

  Full Changelog: https://github.com/giantswarm/happa/compare/v1.68.0...v1.68.1

• Oct 10, 2024 Fleet Management karpenter-bundle v1.3.0

  Changed

  • Update karpenter-capa-taint-remover to allow scheduling on all taints.
• Oct 10, 2024 Fleet Management capa-karpenter-taint-remover v0.4.0

  Changed

  • Allow all taints in the daemonset
• Oct 9, 2024 Fleet Management zot v2.0.0

  Changed

  • Moved .serviceMonitor Helm values under .metrics to conform upstream chart.
    • Additionally, now .metrics.enabled and .metrics.serviceMonitor.enabled must both be set to true to deploy the ServiceMonitor to conform upstream.
  • Bump default zot image tag to v2.1.1.

  Removed

  • Removed .serviceMonitor.namespace as it was not used and upstream does not use it either.
• Oct 9, 2024 Observability observability-bundle v1.7.0

  Changed

  • Upgrade alloyLogs to v0.6.1
    • Allow passing PodLogs via helm chart values
    • Upgrade to Alloy v1.4.2 which fixes a bug with component reload/evaluation and keeping Alloy up-to-date
    • Fixes an issue with CiliumNetworkPolicy preventing Alloy to run in clustering mode

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