Changes and Releases

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

• May 14, 2025 Observability silence-operator v0.15.0

  Added

  • Migrate from Giant Swarm deprecated operatorkit framework to kube-builder.
  • Add CiliumNetworkPolicy support.

  Changed

  • Migrate from Giant Swarm deprecated operatorkit framework to kube-builder. This change introduces a few breaking changes:
    • Operator configuration has been moved from a configmap to command-line arguments. This does not affect helm chart users
    • The operator needs new rbac capabilities to be able manage leases and to create events
    • http port has been changed from 8000 to 8080.
    • Finalizers set on silences have been changed from operatorkit.giantswarm.io/silence-operator-silence-controller to monitoring.giantswarm.io/silence-protection
  • helm .registry.domain has been renamed to image.registry (breaking change)
  • helm deprecated PodSecurityPolicy has been removed (breaking change with kubernetes < 1.25)
  • Use app-build-suite to build the operator.
  • Changed container image from alpine to a non-root distroless image.

  Fixed

  • Fixed the linting errors from golangci-lint v2.

  Removed

  • Remove the unnecessary sync job to rely on GitOps. Breaking change: this means that you should now use your favorite GitOps tool (flux, ArgoCD) to deploy silences on your clusters.
  • Removed Giant Swarm legacy microerrors package for error handling
• May 14, 2025 Developer Portal backstage v0.72.0

  In this release:

  • headless backend package has been added to serve auth and scaffolder plugins separately from the main backend instance;
  • custom discovery and scaffolder API clients have been added to interact with the headless backend instances. See ./docs/releases/v0.72.0-changelog.md for more information.
• May 13, 2025 Continuous Deployment flux-app v1.5.1

  Changed

  • Upgrade Flux to 2.2.3 version.
• May 13, 2025 Observability observability-bundle v1.14.0

  Changed

  • Upgrade kube-prometheus-stack to 72.3.0
    • Bumps prometheus-operator to 0.82.0
    • Bumps prometheus-operator CRDs to 0.82.0
• May 13, 2025 Observability kube-prometheus-stack-app v16.0.0
  • Upgraded chart dependency to kube-prometheus-stack-72.3.0
    • prometheus-operator to 0.82.0
• May 13, 2025 Observability prometheus-operator-app v16.0.0
  • Upgraded chart dependency to kube-prometheus-stack-72.3.0
    • prometheus-operator to 0.82.0
• May 9, 2025 Observability grafana-app v2.22.0

  Changed

  • upgrade grafana chart: 8.15.0 => 9.0.0
  • upgrade grafana : 11.6.1 => 12.0.0
• May 9, 2025 Observability grafana-app v2.21.1

  Changed

  • upgrade grafana chart: 8.14.0 => 8.15.0
• May 9, 2025 Observability loki-app v0.28.1

  Changed

  • Upgraded upstream chart from 6.27.0 to 6.29.0 - see changelog for more information.

  Fixed

  • ensured .loki.enabled: false prevents creating any resource
• May 8, 2025 Security teleport-tbot v0.3.1

  Changed

  • Change ownership to Team Shield

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