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Changes and Releases

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

  • Observability dashboards v3.30.0

    Changed

    • Add team label to karpenter dashboard.
    • Add grafana organization label to public dashboards

    Removed

    • Remove CAPI Overview dashboard.
  • CAPA releases releases aws-25.5.0

    Most notable change in this release is the reduction of IAM permissions on the worker nodes instance profile, aiming at improving the general security of the clusters. Additional changes include reducing the size of the ETCD volume to 50GB targetting costs saving initiatives, improvements for the node-termination-handler application for smoother upgrades and operations as well as fixes for ENI mode targetting the CAPA migration.

    Changes compared to v25.4.0

    Components

    • cluster-aws from v1.3.5 to v1.3.7

    cluster-aws v1.3.5…v1.3.7

    Added

    • Add ingress rule in nodes Security Group to allow access to the Kubelet API when using ENI mode. This is needed by the metrics server to gather metrics from the Kubelet

    Changed

    • Chart: Reduce default etcd volume size to 50 GB.
    • Explicitly set Ignition user data storage type to S3 bucket objects for machine pools
    • Use reduced IAM permissions on worker nodes instance profile. This can be toggled back with global.providerSpecific.reducedInstanceProfileIamPermissionsForWorkers.
    • Explicitly set aws-node-termination-handler queue region so crash-loops are avoided, allowing faster startup

    Apps

    • aws-nth-bundle from v1.2.0 to v1.2.1
    • cilium-crossplane-resources from v0.1.0 to v0.2.0

    aws-nth-bundle v1.2.0…v1.2.1

    Added

    • Forward proxy settings to aws-node-termination-handler-app as environment variables

    cilium-crossplane-resources v0.1.0…v0.2.0

    Added

    • Add a Security Group rule for node to pod communication
  • CAPA releases releases aws-26.4.0

    Most notable change in this release is the reduction of IAM permissions on the worker nodes instance profile, aiming at improving the general security of the clusters. Additional changes include reducing the size of the ETCD volume to 50GB targetting costs saving initiatives, improvements for the node-termination-handler application for smoother upgrades and operations as well as fixes for ENI mode targetting the CAPA migration.

    Changes compared to v26.3.0

    Components

    • cluster-aws from v1.3.5 to v1.3.7

    cluster-aws v1.3.5…v1.3.7

    Added

    • Add ingress rule in nodes Security Group to allow access to the Kubelet API when using ENI mode. This is needed by the metrics server to gather metrics from the Kubelet

    Changed

    • Chart: Reduce default etcd volume size to 50 GB.
    • Explicitly set Ignition user data storage type to S3 bucket objects for machine pools
    • Use reduced IAM permissions on worker nodes instance profile. This can be toggled back with global.providerSpecific.reducedInstanceProfileIamPermissionsForWorkers.
    • Explicitly set aws-node-termination-handler queue region so crash-loops are avoided, allowing faster startup

    Apps

    • aws-nth-bundle from v1.2.0 to v1.2.1
    • cilium-crossplane-resources from v0.1.0 to v0.2.0

    aws-nth-bundle v1.2.0…v1.2.1

    Added

    • Forward proxy settings to aws-node-termination-handler-app as environment variables

    cilium-crossplane-resources v0.1.0…v0.2.0

    Added

    • Add a Security Group rule for node to pod communication
  • CAPA releases releases aws-27.5.0

    Most notable change in this release is the reduction of IAM permissions on the worker nodes instance profile, aiming at improving the general security of the clusters. Additional changes include reducing the size of the ETCD volume to 50GB targetting costs saving initiatives, improvements for the node-termination-handler application for smoother upgrades and operations as well as fixes for ENI mode targetting the CAPA migration.

    Changes compared to v27.4.0

    Components

    • cluster-aws from v1.3.5 to v1.3.7

    cluster-aws v1.3.5…v1.3.7

    Added

    • Add ingress rule in nodes Security Group to allow access to the Kubelet API when using ENI mode. This is needed by the metrics server to gather metrics from the Kubelet

    Changed

    • Chart: Reduce default etcd volume size to 50 GB.
    • Explicitly set Ignition user data storage type to S3 bucket objects for machine pools
    • Use reduced IAM permissions on worker nodes instance profile. This can be toggled back with global.providerSpecific.reducedInstanceProfileIamPermissionsForWorkers.
    • Explicitly set aws-node-termination-handler queue region so crash-loops are avoided, allowing faster startup

    Apps

    • aws-nth-bundle from v1.2.0 to v1.2.1
    • cilium-crossplane-resources from v0.1.0 to v0.2.0

    aws-nth-bundle v1.2.0…v1.2.1

    Added

    • Forward proxy settings to aws-node-termination-handler-app as environment variables

    cilium-crossplane-resources v0.1.0…v0.2.0

    Added

    • Add a Security Group rule for node to pod communication
  • CAPA releases releases aws-28.5.1

    This release introduces improvements for ENI mode targetting the CAPA migration process.

    Changes compared to v28.5.0

    Components

    • cluster-aws from v1.3.6 to v1.3.7

    cluster-aws v1.3.6…v1.3.7

    Added

    • Add ingress rule in nodes Security Group to allow access to the Kubelet API when using ENI mode. This is needed by the metrics server to gather metrics from the Kubelet

    Apps

    • cilium-crossplane-resources from v0.1.0 to v0.2.0

    cilium-crossplane-resources v0.1.0…v0.2.0

    Added

    • Add a Security Group rule for node to pod communication
  • CAPA releases releases aws-29.6.1

    This release introduces improvements for ENI mode targetting the CAPA migration process.

    Changes compared to v29.6.0

    Components

    • cluster-aws from v2.6.0 to v2.6.1

    cluster-aws v2.6.0…v2.6.1

    Added

    • Add ingress rule in nodes Security Group to allow access to the Kubelet API when using ENI mode. This is needed by the metrics server to gather metrics from the Kubelet

    Changed

    • Cilium: Replace no longer supported tunnel option by routingMode.

    Apps

    • cilium-crossplane-resources from v0.1.0 to v0.2.0

    cilium-crossplane-resources v0.1.0…v0.2.0

    Added

    • Add a Security Group rule for node to pod communication
  • Connectivity gateway-api-app v1.2.0

    Added

    • Allow selecting channel (“standard” or “experimental”) for each individual CRD

    Changed

    • Upgrade Gateway API CRDs to v1.2.1
  • Managed Apps gateway-api-app v1.2.0

    Added

    • Allow selecting channel (“standard” or “experimental”) for each individual CRD

    Changed

    • Upgrade Gateway API CRDs to v1.2.1
  • Developer Portal backstage v0.51.0

    In this release:

    • Deployments page with overview of all apps deployed throughout clusters was added. Deployments list changes:
    • Information in SOURCE column was changed. Now it shows type of source and source name. Information about chart name was moved to a separate column called CHART NAME;
    • NAMESPACE/NAME column was split into two separate columns;
    • CLUSTER column was changed. Missing cluster names are being correctly filled and values are displayed as links to cluster details pages;
    • CLUSTER TYPE column was added to deployments list. Clusters list changes:
    • AWS ACCOUNT ID column was fixed to display values in groups of four digits. See ./docs/releases/v0.51.0-changelog.md for more information.
  • Managed Apps athena v1.13.1

    Removed

    • Removed unused chart value .secret.firestoreServiceAccountKey and .secret.

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