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Changes and Releases

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

  • CAPA releases releases aws-27.2.0

    Changes compared to v27.1.1

    Components

    • cluster-aws from v1.3.2 to v1.3.3
    • Kubernetes from v1.27.14 to v1.27.16

    cluster-aws v1.3.2…v1.3.3

    Changed

    • Chart: Update cluster to v1.0.2.
      • Chart: Add OS tooling named template.
  • CAPA releases releases aws-28.2.0

    Changes compared to v28.1.2

    Components

    • cluster-aws from v1.3.2 to v1.3.3
    • Kubernetes from v1.28.11 to v1.28.14

    cluster-aws v1.3.2…v1.3.3

    Changed

    • Chart: Update cluster to v1.0.2.
      • Chart: Add OS tooling named template.
  • CAPA releases releases aws-29.3.0

    Changes compared to v29.2.0

    This release does not contain any changes to components or apps, but makes use of an updated machine image, which includes a fix for accessing private Elastic Container Registries (ECR).

    ⚠️ Breaking change introduced in v29.2.0 with cluster-aws version 2.1.0

    • Do not allow additional properties in the following fields in order to avoid unnoticed typos:

      • global.connectivity.network
      • global.connectivity.network.pods
      • global.connectivity.network.services
      • global.connectivity.subnets[]
      • global.connectivity.topology
      • global.controlPlane
      • global.controlPlane.additionalSecurityGroups[]
      • global.controlPlane.machineHealthCheck
      • global.controlPlane.oidc
      • global.providerSpecific
      • global.providerSpecific.instanceMetadataOptions

    If you were using values like global.controlPlane.containerdVolumeSizeGB and global.controlPlane.kubeletVolumeSizeGB, please move to the new .global.controlPlane.libVolumeSizeGB which defines the size of disk volume used for /var/lib mount point.

  • CAPZ releases releases azure-29.2.0

    Changes compared to v29.1.0

    This release does not contain any changes to components or apps, but makes use of an updated machine image, which includes a fix for accessing private Elastic Container Registries (ECR).

  • Managed Apps teleport-kube-agent-app v0.10.3

    Changed

    • Disable JAMF components on chart templates
  • Security teleport-kube-agent-app v0.10.3

    Changed

    • Disable JAMF components on chart templates
  • Highlights

    Highlights for the week ending 2024-09-26

    Observability

    • dashboardsversion 3.24.0

      • Updated Alertmanager dashboard to show related logs.
      • Add Loki mixins dashboards update script.
      • Update Mimir mixins dashboards via script.
      • Fix Alloy mixin tags.

    • alloy-app version 0.5.2 introduces the following changes:

      • Add a helm chart templating test to the ci pipeline.
      • Add tests with ats in the CI pipeline.
      • Push alloy as a gateway component in collections.

    • kyverno-policies-observability version 0.5.0

      • Remove the policy for ServiceMonitor and PodMonitor relabelling schemas as we no longer need the enforcement.

    • fluent-logshipping-app version 5.2.2

      • Fix the Nginx Parser based on the upstream parser.

    • logging-operator version 0.12.1

      • Fix usage of structured metadata for clusters before v20.
      • Move high cardinality values into structured metadata.
      • Add Kubernetes audit log resource label, filename label, and output stream label.
      • Rename the node_name label into node to match the metric label.

    • loki-app version 0.24.0

      • Add “manual e2e” testing procedure.
      • Add PR message template referring to the manual testing procedure.

    • observability-bundle version 1.6.2:

      • Fixed alloyMetrics catalog

    • observability-operator version 0.6.0:

      • Require observability-bundle >= 1.6.2 for Alloy monitoring agent support; this is due to the incorrect alloyMetrics catalogue in observability-bundle
      • Fix invalid Alloy config due to missing comma on external labels
      • Disable logger development mode to avoid panicking; use zap as a logger.
      • Fix CircleCI release pipeline.
      • Add manual e2e testing procedure and script.

    • prometheus-meta-operator version 4.79.0:

      • Remove unused #alert and #alert-test-installation slack integration.

    • prometheus-rules version 4.15.2:

      • Update MimirHPAReachedMaxReplicas operation recipe link
      • Fix aggregation rule of the slo:current_burn_rate:ratio slo.
      • Remove aggregation of slo:period_error_budget_remaining:ratio` as this value can be easily computed and creates a lot of time series in Grafana Cloud
      • Add aggregations for SLO metrics to export them to the Grafana cloud
      • Add MimirHPAReachedMaxReplicas alert to detect when Mimir’s HPAs have reached maximum capacity.
      • Added dashboards to several Mimir alerts
      • Change IRSAACMCertificateExpiringInLessThan60Days to IRSAACMCertificateExpiringInLessThan45Days. The ACM certificate is renewed 60 days before expiration, and the alert can fire prematurely.

    • tekton-dashboard-loki-proxy version 0.4.0:

      • Change app.giantswarm.io/* labels to application.giantswarm.io/
      • Update Golang to v1.23.1

    Cluster management

    • aws-pod-identity-webhook version 1.17.0:

      • Fix VPA being ineffective due to referring to a non-existing Deployment name

    • aws-crossplane-cluster-config-operator version 0.3.0

      • Configure the Crossplane ProviderConfig to use the CAPA controller role directly without going through a middleman. For this to work, the CAPA controller must have the correct trust policy granting access to the Crossplane provider’s service account.
      • Write a value oidcDomains to the config map containing all service account issuer domains, as defined by the new aws.giantswarm.io/irsa-trust-domains annotation on the AWSCluster. The primary domain is still written to value oidcDomain.

    • cluster version 1.4.1

      • Remove deprecation message for customNodeLabels and customNodeTaints, because they are not deprecated.
      • Allow configuring kube-controller-manager --node-cidr-mask-size flag.
      • Chart: Support multiple service account issuers.\ Change providerIntegration.controlPlane.kubeadmConfig.clusterConfiguration.apiServer.serviceAccountIssuer to plural providerIntegration.controlPlane.kubeadmConfig.clusterConfiguration.apiServer.serviceAccountIssuers and render them in the specified order as --service-account-issuer parameters for the API server.
      • Only add the customNodeLabels value to the kubelet node-labels argument in the KubeadmConfig when customNodeLabels is defined.

    Connectivity

    Security

    • kyverno-policies-dx version 0.5.1

      • Use Enforce and Audit validationFailureAction.

    • kyverno-policies-ux version 0.7.3

      • cluster-names now targets Cluster by GVK
      • Use Enforce validationFailureAction.

    • kyverno-app version 0.18.0

      • Update Kyverno to the upstream version v1.12.5.

    • kyverno-crds version 1.12.0

      • Update Kyverno CRDs to Kyverno v1.12.

    • kyverno-policies version 0.21.0

      • Update to upstream Kyverno Policies version 1.12.5.
      • Don’t push to vsphere-app-collection, capz-app-collection, capa-app-collection or cloud-director-app-collection. We started to consume kyverno-policies from security-bundle.
  • Developer Portal backstage v0.37.2

    Fixes

    • GS plugin: Fix Grafana link application name.
  • Observability loki-app v0.25.0

    Added

    • Support for canary deploymnent

    Changed

    • Upgraded upstream chart from 6.10.0 to 6.12.0 - see changelog for more information.
  • Developer Portal backstage v0.37.1

    Fixes

    • GS plugin: Fix the error in the DeploymentDetailsPicker scaffolder field when pre-selected installation was missing in the form data.

    Changed

    • Update dependencies.