Changes and Releases

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

  • Changes compared to v28.0.1

    Components

    • cluster-vsphere from v0.65.1 to v0.65.2.
    • Flatcar from v3815.2.5 to v3975.2.2
    • Kubernetes from v1.28.15 to v1.29.10

    cluster-vsphere v0.65.1…v0.65.2

    Changed

    • Fix kube-vip static pod manifest for Kubernetes 1.29 onwards.

    Apps

    • cert-exporter from v2.9.1 to v2.9.2
    • coredns from v1.21.0 to v1.22.0
    • node-exporter from v1.19.0 to v1.20.0
    • observability-bundle from v1.5.3 to v1.6.2
    • security-bundle from v1.8.0 to v1.8.2
    • teleport-kube-agent from v0.9.2 to v0.10.3
    • vertical-pod-autoscaler from v5.2.4 to v5.3.0
    • vertical-pod-autoscaler-crd from v3.1.0 to v3.1.1

    cert-exporter v2.9.1…v2.9.2

    Added

    • Chart: Add VPA and resources configuration for deployment and daemonset. (#382)

    coredns v1.21.0…v1.22.0

    Changed

    • Update coredns image to 1.11.3.

    Removed

    • Removed legacy Giant Swarm monitoring labels as coredns is monitored through a prometheus-operator generated servicemonitor.

    node-exporter v1.19.0…v1.20.0

    Changed

    • Synced with upstream chart v4.38.0 (node-exporter 1.8.2).

    observability-bundle v1.5.3…v1.6.2

    Added

    • Add alloy v0.4.0 as alloyMetrics.

    Changed

    • Fixed alloyMetrics catalog
    • Disable usage reporting to GrafanaLabs by:
      • Bumping alloyLogs and alloyMetrics to v0.4.1.
      • Bumping grafanaAgent to v0.4.6.

    security-bundle v1.8.0…v1.8.2

    Changed

    • Update cloudnative-pg (app) to v0.0.6.
    • Update trivy-operator (app) to v0.10.0.
    • Update kyverno-policy-operator (app) to v0.0.8.
    • Update kyverno (app) to v0.17.16.

    teleport-kube-agent v0.9.2…v0.10.3

    Changed

    • Disable JAMF components on chart templates
    • Fix issues with templates
    • Change ownership to Team Shield
    • Added small fix on podSecurityContext for seccompProfile.
    • Upgraded to Teleport version 16

    vertical-pod-autoscaler v5.2.4…v5.3.0

    Changed

    • Chart: Update Helm release vertical-pod-autoscaler to v9.9.0. (#314)
    • Chart: Consume global.imageRegistry. (#315)

    Removed

    • Chart: Do not override crds.image.tag. (#316)

    vertical-pod-autoscaler-crd v3.1.0…v3.1.1

    Changed

    • Chart: Improve Chart.yaml. (#110)
    • Repository: Some chores. (#111)
  • Added

    • Add Vertical Pod Autoscaler (VPA) configuration, enabled by default.

    Changed

    • Disable logger development mode to avoid panicking.
    • Disable PodSecurityPolicy by default.
    • Expose port 8081 for health/liveness probes.
  • Added

    • Add Vertical Pod Autoscaler (VPA) configuration, enabled by default.

    Changed

    • Disable logger development mode to avoid panicking.
    • Disable PodSecurityPolicy by default.
    • Expose port 8081 for health/liveness probes.
  • Changes compared to v27.0.0

    Components

    • Kubernetes from v1.27.16 to v1.28.12
  • Changed

    • Add a new extraParsers property to be able to add other parsers.
    • Upgrade from fluent-bit 3.1.6 to fluent-bit 3.1.9.
  • Added

    • Add handling on deletion for the old finalizer.

    Changed

    • Disable zap logger development mode to avoid panicking
    • Ownership change to Shield
  • Added

    • Add handling on deletion for the old finalizer.

    Changed

    • Disable zap logger development mode to avoid panicking
    • Ownership change to Shield
  • Changed

    • Upgraded upstream chart from 6.16.0 to 6.18.0 - see changelog for more information.
      • This upgrades Loki from 3.1.0 to 3.2.0.
  • This release allows to have different node pools with different configuration to support legacy cgroupsv1.

    Changes compared to v25.1.1

    Components

    • cluster-aws from v1.1.2 to v1.1.3

    cluster-aws v1.1.2…v1.1.3

    Changed

    • Bump cluster chart to 0.35.3 so that we can configure node pools for cgroupsv1.
  • This release allows to have different node pools with different configuration to support legacy cgroupsv1.

    Changes compared to v25.2.1

    Components

    • cluster-aws from v1.3.2 to v1.3.4

    cluster-aws v1.3.2…v1.3.4

    Changed

    • Bump cluster chart to 1.0.3 so that we can configure node pools for cgroupsv1.
    • Chart: Update cluster to v1.0.2.
      • Chart: Add OS tooling named template.

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