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Changes and Releases

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

  • Connectivity ingress-nginx-app v4.1.2

    Changed

    • Chart: Sync to upstream. (#864)
      • Controller: Update image to v1.13.2.
      • Kube Webhook CertGen: Update image to v1.6.2.
  • Connectivity ingress-nginx-app v4.0.5

    Changed

    • Chart: Sync to upstream. (#867)
      • Controller: Update image to v1.12.6.
      • Kube Webhook CertGen: Update image to v1.6.2.
  • Fleet Management aws-efs-csi-driver v2.0.0

    ⚠️ Attention: Major release [2.0.0] contains breaking changes. You need to uninstall the previous app before upgrading to the new release. Your EFS files and mounts will not be deleted, your pods should continue running as normal with no downtime. ⚠️

    Changed

    • Upgrade EFS driver
    • Update Kyverno PolicyException apiVersion to v2.
  • Observability dashboards v4.7.1

    Fixed

    • “storage lock” graph was displaying wrong data in the zot dashboard
  • Developer Portal backstage v0.83.0

    Added

  • CAPZ releases releases azure-30.1.4

    Changes compared to v29.5.1

    Components

    • cluster-azure from v1.6.1 to v2.1.2
    • Flatcar from v4081.2.1 to v4152.2.1
    • Kubernetes from v1.29.13 to v1.30.11
    • os-tooling from v1.22.1 to v1.24.0

    cluster-azure v1.6.1…v2.1.2

    Added

    • Add global.metadata.preventDeletion to add the deletion prevention label to cluster resources
    • Enable network-policies-app from cluster chart with DNS policies enabled. This makes kube-system and giantswarm namespaces to be deny by default.
    • Add default tag giantswarm-cluster to all resources.
    • Allow adding custom tags to resources using providerSpecific.additionalResourceTags value.
    • Add azurefile-csi-driver app as helmrelease.
    • Add validation of machineDeployment name using Schema Regex
    • Add flags to disable PSPs.
    • Render containerd configuration at cluster creation time
      • add support for containerd registry mirrors
      • add support for containerd registry credentials
    • Set value for controller-manager terminated-pod-gc-threshold to 125 ( consistent with vintage )
    • Deploy private links for private clusters.
    • Add full configuration values documentation.
    • Add support for private clusters.
    • Add support for failuredomains field to MachineDeployments
    • Generate SAN entries for api.<clusterName>.<baseDomain> (e.g. api.glippy.azuretest.gigantic.io)
    • Add option to specify the giantswarm.io/service-priority cluster label.
    • Add icon property to Chart metadata.
    • Pre-Create /var/lib/kubelet with 0750 if it does not exist already to address issue with node-exporter
    • Add example manifests to create cluster
    • Add support for Bastion host as a MachineDeployment
    • Add support for MachineDeployments
    • Add MachineDeployments to Values.yaml
    • Add MachineHealthChecks for Worker Nodes in MachineDeployments. Enabled by default
    • Enable PodSecurityPolicy admission plugin when version is lt 1.25.0
    • Add helm chart dependency for cluster-shared , required by the PSP admission controller
    • Default to 3 replicas for control plane
    • add giantswam user to the KCP and Machinepool configuration
    • Add support for custom taints and labels on machinepools
      • also add hardcoded role=worker and giantswarm.io/machine-pool labels
    • Add support for custom taints on control plane nodes
    • Set EvictionThresholds soft and hard on all nodes
    • Add a script to calculate the kube-reserved settings for nodes based on the available CPU and Memory using the formulas defined by GKE
      • The memory reservation is slighly less aggressive than what GKE suggests
    • Initial support to create a workload cluster via CAPI/CAPZ.
    • Add support for creating cluster with UserAssigned Identity for VM Identity
    • Add cluster.x-k8s.io/watch-filter: capi to common labels.
    • Added github automation

    Changed

    • Chart: Update cluster to v2.2.3.
    • Chart: Update Cilium configuration.
    • Chart: Update cluster to v2.2.1.
    • Chart: Update cluster to v2.2.0.
    • Chart: Update cluster to v2.1.1.
    • Chart: Reduce default etcd volume size to 50 GB.
    • 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
    • Make external-dns-private app depend on the prometheus-operator-crd app, because it uses ServiceMonitors.
    • Chart: Update cluster to v1.4.1
      • Allow to enable auditd service through global.components.auditd.enabled.
      • Allow configuring kube-controller-manager --node-cidr-mask-size flag.
    • Chart: Update cluster to v1.2.2
      • Set MachineDeployment Kubernetes version from release
    • Apps: Use catalog from Release CR.
    • Chart: Update cluster to v1.1.0. (#325)
      • Machine Template: Adapt new image format.
      • Apps: Enable observability-policies.
    • Update cluster chart version to v1.0.0. This update adds MC Zot deployment as a registry mirror for gsoci.azurecr.io registry. This is the new default behavior.
    • Respect global.apps.externalDnsPrivate to overwrite configuration of external-dns-private app.
    • Add allowedSubscriptions parameter for multi-subscription use case.
    • Use .Values.global.managementCluster for teleport node labels.
    • Update azurefile-csi-driver-app to 1.30.2-gs1
    • Update cluster chart to v0.32.0. More details in cluster chart v0.32.0 release notes.
    • Use MachineHealth resource from cluster chart.
    • Use MachineDeployment resource from cluster chart.
    • Update cluster chart to v0.27.0. More details in cluster chart v0.27.0 release notes.
    • Disable and remove permissive policies from cilium-app.
    • Import HelmRepositories from cluster chart and delete the HelmRepositories from this chart. This adds the cluster-catalog.
    • Bump cluster chart from 0.21.0 to 0.26.0.
    • Use KubeadmControlPlane resource from cluster chart.
    • Bump flatcar to 3815.2.0.
    • Add cluster chart as subchart.
    • Render Cluster resource from the cluster chart.
    • Delete Cluster resource template.
    • Bump azurefile-csi-driver-app to 1.26.0-gs5.
    • Update teleport node labels - add ins= label and remove cluster= label condition check, such that MC nodes have this label.
    • Allow additional fields for privateEndpoints.
    • Allow adding privateEndpoints to subnets.
    • Use Standard_D4s_v5 for control plane and worker nodes.
    • Use 2 replicas for workers by default.
    • Upgrade K8S version to 1.25.16.
    • Upgrade kubectl version to 1.25.15.
    • Disable PSPs by default.
    • Enable Host Encryption for workers and control plane virtual machines.
    • Use gsoci.azurecr.io for kubeadm container images.
    • Use gsoci.azurecr.io for sandbox container image (pause container).
    • Update coredns to 1.21.0 to use gsoci.azurecr.io.
    • Update cillium to 0.19.2 to use gsoci.azurecr.io.
    • Update azure-cloud-controller-manager-app to 1.24.18-gs6 to use gsoci.azurecr.io.
    • Update azure-cloud-node-manager-app to 1.24.18-gs6 to use gsoci.azurecr.io.
    • Update azuredisk-csi-driver-app to 1.26.2-gs6 to use gsoci.azurecr.io.
    • Update azurefile-csi-driver-app to 1.26.0-gs4 to use gsoci.azurecr.io.
    • Enable teleport by default.
    • Upgrade Flatcar image to 3510.2.5
    • Upgrade K8S version to 1.24.17
    • Fix left-over azurefile-csi-driver helmreleases during cleanup.
    • Adapt cleanup hook for cluster policies.
    • :boom: Migrate CNI / CPI / CSI and VPA CRD apps to helmreleases in cluster-azure - requires default-apps-azure 0.0.24
    • Use multiple volumes for containerd,kubelet,root and etcd mounts for control plane nodes
    • Restricted .providerSpecific.location value to a set of defined region names.
    • Disallow additional properties on the .metadata.labels object.
    • Value .providerSpecific.subscriptionId marked as required, constrained to UUID format.
    • Enabled Admission Plugins is now handled dynamically based on the kubernetes version of the cluster that is being installed
    • Feature Gates is now handled dynamically based on the kubernetes version of the cluster that is being installed
    • Add support for configurable labels to Cluster CR
    • Upgrade cluster-shared dependency to 0.6.5
    • Add value schema constraints to all numeric types, using exclusiveMinimum or minimum of zero.
    • Upgrade Flatcar image to 3510.2.1
    • Upgrade K8S version to 1.24.13
    • :boom: Breaking - Skip kube-proxy during kubeadm init/join to replace with cilium-proxy
      • This change requies default-apps >= 0.0.17
    • Add identity spec to hash calculation for bastion node
    • Add connectivity.allowedCIDRs to define a list of network addresses to connect to the API server.
    • Support defining custom vnet settings ( in the /internal section of the schema )
      • VNET name and ResourceGroup
      • precreated subnet names
    • Allow defining the scope of the SystemAssigned Identity on WC nodes
    • Rename JSON schema makefile commands to normalize-schema, validate-schema, generate-values.
    • Add replacement of pause image for kubelet and containerd to use quay.io/giantswarm/pause
    • Revert cilium kube-proxy replacement - do not skip kube-proxy
      • Requires default-apps => 0.0.15
    • :boom: Breaking - Skip kube-proxy during kubeadm init/join to replace with cilium-proxy
      • This change requies default-apps >= 0.0.14
    • Remove machinepool code , this code is currently not used and it will confused the team that picks up this APP
    • Add support for creating WC with SystemAssigned Identities and make it the default - Contributor Role in the resourceGroup where the cluster Lives
    • Switch Cluster Images from Ubuntu to Flatcar
    • Port hardening and tuning settings from Vintage to CAPZ Flatcar
    • Fix schema-normalize Make target to actually do the normalize
    • Breaking change to values schema - make sure to update your values before updating to this releaseValues schema:
      • Rename /machineDeployments to /nodePools
      • Remove /machinePools from schema
    • Values schema: Use draft 2020-12 and update default value encoding based on latest schemalint normalize output.
    • Cluster Example: Update to match release 0.0.12 changes
    • Add managementCluster, baseDomain and provider properties to the schema because they are added by the AppOperator and the schema has additionalProperties: false
    • Re-Add selector to Bastion machineDeployment , this is a required field and the webhook validation fail without it ( only in our kind mc-bootstrap)
    • Update example manifests to create cluster
    • Re-Add selector to machineDeployment , this is a required field and the webhook validation fail without it ( only in our kind mc-bootstrap)
    • Disallow additional properties on the values scherma root level.
    • Reduce default network range from 10.0.0.0/8 (default CAPZ) to 10.0.0.0/16.
    • Breaking change to values schema - make sure to update your values before updating to this releaseValues schema:
      • Renamed /azure to /providerSpecific
      • Moved /bastion to /connectivity/bastion
      • Moved /oidc to /controlPlane/oidc
      • Moved /defaults to /internal/defaults
      • Moved /attachCapzControllerIdentity into /internal/identy
      • Moved /enablePerClusterIdentity into /internal/identy
      • Moved /sshSSOPublicKey to /connectivity/sshSSOPublicKey
      • Moved /kubernetesVersion to /internal/kubernetesVersion
    • Move common templates between MachineDeployments and MachinePools into an helper file ( _machine_helpers.tpl )
    • replace version with 0.0.0-dev in Chart.yaml since we use App Build Suite
    • Allow customizing the identityRef in the AzureCluster
    • Fix MachinePool naming by removing the hashed name from all resources. This is not needed for MachinePools , like it is for MachineDeployments
    • Skip coredns installation phase in kubeadmbootstrapconfiguration , we install it as an App
    • Do not consider the labels in the ControlPlane AzureMachineTemplate when calculating name hash to avoid rolling control plane nodes unecessarily
    • Change default values ssh key to RSA one ( since azure does not support ed25519 )
    • Update schema json

    Fixed

    • Use correct context at MachineDeployment helper.
    • Render external-dns for Azure private clusters correctly.
    • Render cert-manager configuration for Azure private clusters correctly.
    • Add missing hack for manipulating /etc/hosts for private clusters.
    • Fix containerd config that was breaking in newer flatcar versions.

    Removed

    • Remove Cilium deprecated values.
    • Remove unused internal values from values.schema.json.
    • Drop duplicated workflow “compare_rendering.yaml” file.
    • SSH inbound SG rule from VPN
    • Bastion and ssh configuration on nodes.
    • Remove CSIMigration feature flag (enabled by default with k8s 1.23).
    • Removed baseDomain from CI values.
    • Values schema
      • Removed redundant and unused /clusterName and /clusterDescription properties.
      • Removed unused /includeClusterResourceSet

    Apps

    • Added coredns-extensions v0.1.2
    • Added etcd-defrag v1.0.2
    • azure-cloud-controller-manager from v1.29.8-gs1 to v1.30.14-gs1
    • azure-cloud-node-manager from v1.29.8-gs1 to v1.30.14-gs1
    • azuredisk-csi-driver from v1.30.2-gs2 to v1.30.12-gs1
    • azurefile-csi-driver from v1.30.2-gs1 to v1.30.10-gs1
    • capi-node-labeler from v0.5.0 to v1.0.2
    • cert-exporter from v2.9.3 to v2.9.5
    • cert-manager from v3.8.2 to v3.9.0
    • cilium from v0.25.2 to v0.31.5
    • cilium-servicemonitors from v0.1.2 to v0.1.3
    • coredns from v1.23.0 to v1.24.0
    • etcd-k8s-res-count-exporter from v1.10.0 to v1.10.3
    • external-dns from v3.1.0 to v3.2.0
    • k8s-audit-metrics from v0.10.0 to v0.10.2
    • metrics-server from v2.4.2 to v2.6.0
    • net-exporter from v1.21.0 to v1.22.0
    • node-exporter from v1.20.0 to v1.20.2
    • observability-bundle from v1.9.0 to v1.11.0
    • security-bundle from v1.9.1 to v1.10.1
    • teleport-kube-agent from v0.10.3 to v0.10.4
    • vertical-pod-autoscaler from v5.3.1 to v5.4.0
    • vertical-pod-autoscaler-crd from v3.1.2 to v3.2.0

    azure-cloud-controller-manager v1.29.8-gs1…v1.30.14-gs1

    Added

    • Add Annotations and labels for use of azure workload identity.

    Changed

    • Chart: Update to upstream v1.30.14. (#110)
    • Chart: Update to upstream v1.30.13. (#103)
    • Chart: Update to upstream v1.30.6. (#87)

    azure-cloud-node-manager v1.29.8-gs1…v1.30.14-gs1

    Added

    • Add Annotations and labels for use of azure workload identity.

    Changed

    • Chart: Update to upstream v1.30.14. (#100)
    • Chart: Update to upstream v1.30.13. (#93)
    • Chart: Update to upstream v1.30.6. (#77)

    azuredisk-csi-driver v1.30.2-gs2…v1.30.12-gs1

    Changed

    • Chart: Update to upstream v1.30.12.

    azurefile-csi-driver v1.30.2-gs1…v1.30.10-gs1

    Changed

    • Chart: Update to upstream v1.30.10.

    capi-node-labeler v0.5.0…v1.0.2

    Changed

    • Go: Update dependencies.
    • Main: Improve sleep. (#125)
    • Go: Update go.mod and .nancy-ignore. (#123)

    cert-exporter v2.9.3…v2.9.5

    Changed

    • Go: Update dependencies.
    • Repository: Some chores. (#418)
    • Go: Update go.mod and .nancy-ignore. (#437)

    cert-manager v3.8.2…v3.9.0

    Added

    • Adds new sync method based on Vendir to sync from upstream

    Changed

    • Updates Cert-manager Chart to Upstream 1.16.2

    cilium v0.25.2…v0.31.5

    Changed

    • Reenable Cilium agent metrics.
    • Upgrade Cilium to v1.16.10.
    • Upgrade Cilium to v1.16.9.
    • Upgrade Cilium to v1.16.8.
    • Upgrade Cilium to v1.16.7.
    • Upgrade Cilium to v1.16.6.
    • Upgrade Cilium to v1.16.5.
    • Revert back to upstream default of using image digests for container images.
    • Upgrade Cilium to v1.16.3.
    • Move provider specific custom CNI configuration to subchart.
    • Upgrade Cilium to v1.16.1.
    • Upgrade Cilium to v1.16.0.
    • Disable digest in all images.
    • Improve security defaults for:
      • Hubble UI
      • Hubble Relay
      • Cilium Operator

    Removed

    • Delete defaultPolicies and extraPolicies templates.

    cilium-servicemonitors v0.1.2…v0.1.3

    Changed

    • Change ownership from phoenix to cabbage.
    • Use the app-build-suite.

    coredns v1.23.0…v1.24.0

    Changed

    • Update coredns image to 1.12.0.
    • Disable HPA Memory target.
    • Increase threshold for HPA CPU target to 80%.

    coredns-extensions v0.1.2

    Added

    • Add VPA for CoreDNS deployments.
    • Add value to enable or disable VPA resources.

    Changed

    • Push App to the default-catalog.
    • Publish App in giantswarm-catalog.

    etcd-defrag v1.0.2

    Added

    • Chart: Add moveLeader. (#11)

    Changed

    • Chart: Update dependency ahrtr/etcd-defrag to v0.25.0. (#17)
    • Chart: Update dependency ahrtr/etcd-defrag to v0.24.0. (#16)
    • Chart: Update dependency ahrtr/etcd-defrag to v0.23.0. (#10)
    • Values: Rename cluster into useClusterEndpoints. (#8)

    etcd-k8s-res-count-exporter v1.10.0…v1.10.3

    Changed

    • Go: Update dependencies.
    • Go: Update dependencies.
    • Set readOnlyRootFilesystem to true in the container security context.
    • Update Kyverno PolicyExceptions to v2beta1.
    • Go: Update go.mod and .nancy-ignore. (#242)

    external-dns v3.1.0…v3.2.0

    Changed

    • Update architect-orb and ATS.
    • Add DNSEndpoints as a source for DNS records.

    k8s-audit-metrics v0.10.0…v0.10.2

    Changed

    • Go: Update dependencies.
    • Update Kyverno PolicyExceptions to v2beta1.
    • Go: Update go.mod and .nancy-ignore. (#248)

    metrics-server v2.4.2…v2.6.0

    Added

    • Add VPA setting for metrics-server.
    • Chart: Update PolicyExceptions to v2beta1. (#226)

    Changed

    • Upgrade metrics-server to v0.7.2.

    net-exporter v1.21.0…v1.22.0

    Changed

    • Narrow down CiliumNetworkPolicy to allow desired traffic only.

    Removed

    • Remove NetworkPolicy resource and rely on CiliumNetworkPolicy only.

    node-exporter v1.20.0…v1.20.2

    Changed

    • Go: Update dependencies.
    • Update Kyverno PolicyExceptions to v2beta1.
    • Go: Update go.mod. (#322)

    observability-bundle v1.9.0…v1.11.0

    Changed

    • prometheus-operator will not check promql syntax for prometheusRules that are labelled observability.giantswarm.io/rule-type: logs
    • Upgrade alloy to chart 0.9.0.
      • Bumps alloy from to 1.5.1 to 1.7.1
    • Upgrade alloy to chart 0.8.0.
      • Bumps alloy from to 1.5.0 to 1.6.1
    • Upgrade kube-prometheus-stack from 66.2.1 to 69.5.1
      • Bumps prometheus-operator to 0.80.1
      • Bumps prometheus to 3.0.1

    security-bundle v1.9.1…v1.10.1

    Added

    • Add e2e tests for the security-bundle and all is components

    Changed

    • Update kyverno-crds (app) to v1.13.1.
    • Update kyverno (app) to v0.19.0.
    • Update kyverno-crds (app) to v1.13.0.
    • Update kyverno-policies (app) to v0.23.0.
    • Update edgedb (app) to v0.1.0.
    • Update falco (app) to v0.10.0.
    • Update trivy (app) to v0.13.2.

    teleport-kube-agent v0.10.3…v0.10.4

    Added

    • Add headless service on diag port 3000.

    Changed

    • Migrated to ABS

    vertical-pod-autoscaler v5.3.1…v5.4.0

    Changed

    • Chart: Update Helm release vertical-pod-autoscaler to v10.0.0 (#335)

    vertical-pod-autoscaler-crd v3.1.2…v3.2.0

    Changed

    • Chart: Sync to upstream. (#126)
  • Observability grafana-app v2.25.2

    Changed

    • upgrade pg-cluster-recovery-test subchart: v0.2.2 => v0.2.3
  • Observability grafana-app v2.25.1

    Changed

    • upgrade pg-cluster-recovery-test subchart: v0.2.0 => v0.2.2
    • upgrade grafana chart: 9.3.1 => 9.3.6
  • Developer Portal backstage v0.82.4

    Fixed

  • Developer Portal backstage v0.82.3

    Fixed