Changes and Releases

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

• Mar 19, 2025 CAPA releases releases aws-25.5.3

  Changes compared to v25.5.2

  Components

  • cluster-aws from v1.3.9 to v1.3.10

  cluster-aws v1.3.9…v1.3.10

  Added

  • Add ingress rule in nodes Security Group to allow access for monitoring Chart Operator, EBS CSI Controller, Cilium Operator and Node Exporter.
• Mar 19, 2025 CAPA releases releases aws-26.4.3

  Changes compared to v26.4.2

  Components

  • cluster-aws from v1.3.9 to v1.3.10

  cluster-aws v1.3.9…v1.3.10

  Added

  • Add ingress rule in nodes Security Group to allow access for monitoring Chart Operator, EBS CSI Controller, Cilium Operator and Node Exporter.
• Mar 19, 2025 CAPA releases releases aws-27.5.3

  Changes compared to v27.5.2

  Components

  • cluster-aws from v1.3.9 to v1.3.10

  cluster-aws v1.3.9…v1.3.10

  Added

  • Add ingress rule in nodes Security Group to allow access for monitoring Chart Operator, EBS CSI Controller, Cilium Operator and Node Exporter.
• Mar 19, 2025 CAPA releases releases aws-28.5.4

  Changes compared to v28.5.3

  Components

  • cluster-aws from v1.3.9 to v1.3.10

  cluster-aws v1.3.9…v1.3.10

  Added

  • Add ingress rule in nodes Security Group to allow access for monitoring Chart Operator, EBS CSI Controller, Cilium Operator and Node Exporter.
• Mar 19, 2025 CAPA releases releases aws-29.6.3

  Changes compared to v29.6.2

  Components

  • cluster-aws from v2.6.2 to v2.6.3

  cluster-aws v2.6.2…v2.6.3

  Added

  • Add ingress rule in nodes Security Group to allow access for monitoring Chart Operator, EBS CSI Controller, Cilium Operator and Node Exporter.
• Mar 19, 2025 Fleet Management zot v2.1.0

  Changed

  • Update to project-zot/helm-charts version 0.1.67.
  • Bump default zot image tag to v2.1.2.
• Mar 19, 2025 Developer Portal backstage v0.56.0

  In this release:

  • filtering logic was added to the Deployments and Clusters pages;
  • “Deployment Type” filter was added to the Deployments page;
  • “Type” filter was added to the Clusters page;
  • “MultipleSelect” component styles were improved to provide a more compact view;
  • a counter for table items was added to the table titles. See ./docs/releases/v0.56.0-changelog.md for more information.
• Mar 18, 2025 Others hello-world-app v2.8.1

  Changed

  • Chart: Update README.md.
• Mar 18, 2025 Security teleport-kube-agent-app v0.10.4

  Added

  • Add headless service on diag port 3000.

  Changed

  • Migrated to ABS
• Mar 18, 2025 Highlights

  Highlights for the week ending 2025-03-18

  General

  Apps

  • dashboards

    • 4.3.0
      • Add Observability Resource Usage dashboard
      • Add Backstage dashboard

  • logging-operator

    • [0.25.1](https://github.com/giantswarm/logging- operator/compare/v0.25.0…v0.25.1)
      • Stop caching helm secrets in the operator to reduce resource usage.
    • [0.25.0](https://github.com/giantswarm/logging- operator/compare/v0.24.1…v0.25.0)
      • Adds support to include and exclude event collection per namespace in workload clusters. If nothing is configured, the event collector will collect all events in the WC.
      • Fix incorrect config generation introduced by the tenant governance which defaults to alloy as a logshipper, even on promtail-equiped clusters.
      • Clean up some legacy paths that are not useful anymore.

  • object-storage-operator

    • [0.10.3](https://github.com/giantswarm/object-storage- operator/compare/v0.10.2…v0.10.3)
      • Stop caching helm secrets in the operator to reduce resource usage.
      • Use smaller dockerfile to reduce build time as ABS already generates the go binary.

  • observability-operator

    • [0.19.4](https://github.com/giantswarm/observability- operator/compare/v0.19.3…v0.19.4)
      • Revert caching tuning for configmaps and pods because it was causing api false answers.
    • [0.19.3](https://github.com/giantswarm/observability- operator/compare/v0.19.2…v0.19.3)
      • Stop caching helm secrets in the operator to reduce resource usage.
      • Cache only the dashboards configmap in the operator to reduce resource usage.
      • Cache only the alertmanager and grafana pods in the operator to reduce resource usage.
      • Remove cleanup code for Mimir Alertmanager anonymous tenant’s configuration.
      • Remove cleanup code for Mimir Ruler anonymous tenant’s rules.

  • prometheus-rules

    • [4.49.3](https://github.com/giantswarm/prometheus- rules/compare/v4.49.2…v4.49.3)

      • Increase threshold time for KubeStateMetricsSlow from 7s to 15s.

    • [4.49.2](https://github.com/giantswarm/prometheus- rules/compare/v4.49.1…v4.49.2)

      • Fixed some grafana-cloud recording rules to specifically use metrics giantswarm metrics
      • Update PromtailRequestsErrors to fire after 1h instead of 25min.
      • Update PromtailRequestsErrors to cancel outside of working hours.

    • [4.49.1](https://github.com/giantswarm/prometheus- rules/compare/v4.49.0…v4.49.1)

      • Update MimirDataPushFailures runbook url.

    • [4.49.0](https://github.com/giantswarm/prometheus- rules/compare/v4.48.0…v4.49.0)

      • Rename MimirObjectStoreLowRate to MimirDataPushFailures and update its expression to only target upload operations from the ingester component.

  • cluster-apps-operator

    • [3.1.2](https://github.com/giantswarm/cluster-apps- operator/compare/v3.1.1…v3.1.2)
      • Update app-operator to version 7.1.1.

  • hello-world-app

    • 2.8.0
      • Add HTTP->HTTPS redirect in the HTTPRoute CR.

  • konfigure-operator

    • [0.1.0](https://github.com/giantswarm/konfigure- operator/compare/v0.1.0…v0.1.0)
      • Initial implementation according to: https://github.com/giantswarm/rfc/pull/108

  • aws-cloud-controller-manager-app

    • [1.30.8-gs1](https://github.com/giantswarm/aws-cloud-controller-manager- app/compare/v1.30.7-gs3…v1.30.8-gs1)
      • Chart: Update to upstream v1.30.8.

  • aws-ebs-csi-driver-app

    • [3.0.5](https://github.com/giantswarm/aws-ebs-csi-driver- app/compare/v3.0.4…v3.0.5)
      • Chart: Update snapshot-controller to v8.2.1. (#283)
    • [3.0.4](https://github.com/giantswarm/aws-ebs-csi-driver- app/compare/v3.0.3…v3.0.4)
      • Chart: Sync to upstream. (#264)

  • aws-pod-identity-webhook

    • [1.19.1](https://github.com/giantswarm/aws-pod-identity- webhook/compare/v1.19.0…v1.19.1)
      • Go: Update dependencies.

  • kube-downscaler-app

    • [0.6.1](https://github.com/giantswarm/kube-downscaler- app/compare/v0.6.0…v0.6.1)
      • Fix ciliumnetpol’s endpointSelector.
    • [0.6.0](https://github.com/giantswarm/kube-downscaler- app/compare/v0.5.0…v0.6.0)
      • Update chart’s image.

  • cloud-provider-vsphere-app

    • [2.0.1](https://github.com/giantswarm/cloud-provider-vsphere- app/compare/v2.0.0…v2.0.1)
      • Ensure the Helm chart name stays consistent.
    • [2.0.0](https://github.com/giantswarm/cloud-provider-vsphere- app/compare/v1.12.0…v2.0.0)
      • Remove subcharts in order to deploy only the vSphere CPI (at upstream version v1.30.0).

  • cluster-cloud-director

    • [0.65.0](https://github.com/giantswarm/cluster-cloud- director/compare/v0.64.2…v0.65.0)
      • Chart: Update cluster to v2.1.1.
      • Chart: Enable coredns-extensions and etcd-defrag.

  • cluster-vsphere

    • [1.0.0](https://github.com/giantswarm/cluster- vsphere/compare/v0.69.0…v1.0.0)
      • Split cloud provider app into separate HelmReleases.
      • Add global.providerSpecific.templateSuffix to set a suffix on the VM template to use.

  • kube-vip-cloud-provider-app

    • [0.3.0](https://github.com/giantswarm/kube-vip-cloud-provider- app/compare/v0.2.0…v0.3.0)
      • Run container with a read-only filesystem.

  • vsphere-csi-driver-app

    • [3.4.2](https://github.com/giantswarm/vsphere-csi-driver- app/compare/v3.4.1…v3.4.2)
      • Correct kubectl image tag.
      • Remove superfluous update script.

  • cloudnative-pg-app

    • [0.0.7](https://github.com/giantswarm/cloudnative-pg- app/compare/v0.0.6…v0.0.7)
      • Push to CAPI app collections.
      • grafana dashboard: load it to Shared Org (public) organization

  • rbac-operator

    • [0.42.0](https://github.com/giantswarm/rbac- operator/compare/v0.41.1…v0.42.0)
      • Added support for read-all-customer-groups bindings.
      • Change ownership to Team Shield

  • trivy-app

    • 0.13.4
      • Add API capabilities check for Kyverno PolicyExceptions before switching to v2.
    • 0.13.3
      • Make livenessProbe.initialDelaySeconds configurable.

  • cluster

    • 2.2.0
      • Preventing container with Nvidia runtime taking down the whole node going OOM by properly isolating the container.
      • Apps: Remove source config from external-dns defaults.

  • cluster-autoscaler-app

    • [1.30.4-gs1](https://github.com/giantswarm/cluster-autoscaler- app/compare/v1.30.3-gs2…v1.30.4-gs1)
      • Chart: Update to upstream v1.30.4. (#308)

  • etcd-backup-operator

    • [4.10.1](https://github.com/giantswarm/etcd-backup- operator/compare/v4.10.0…v4.10.1)
      • Ensure the default clustersToExcludeRegex doesn’t match any clusters

  • etcd-kubernetes-resources-count-exporter

    • [1.10.3](https://github.com/giantswarm/etcd-kubernetes-resources-count- exporter/compare/v1.10.2…v1.10.3)
      • Go: Update dependencies.
    • [1.10.2](https://github.com/giantswarm/etcd-kubernetes-resources-count- exporter/compare/v1.10.1…v1.10.2)
      • Go: Update dependencies.

  • node-exporter-app

    • [1.20.2](https://github.com/giantswarm/node-exporter- app/compare/v1.20.1…v1.20.2)
      • Go: Update dependencies.

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