Changes and Releases

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

• Oct 31, 2024 Security external-secrets v0.11.0

  Changed

  • Upgrading to the v0.10.5 version. Includes breaking changes.
  • Update Kyverno PolicyExceptions to v2 and fallback to v2beta1.
• Oct 31, 2024 Developer Portal backstage v0.41.0

  In this release:

  • Cluster details page was added.
  • K8s resources management was refactored in GS plugins.
  • Auto generation of TS types and constant values for K8s resources was added in GS plugins. See ./docs/releases/v0.41.0-changelog.md for more information.
• Oct 30, 2024 Observability observability-bundle v1.8.0

  Changed

  • Upgrade prometheus-agent from v0.6.9 to v0.7.0.
    • Adds extraArgs to be able to use nice features like wal truncation
  • upgrade kube-prometheus-stack from 61.0.0 to 65.1.1
    • prometheus-operator CRDs from 0.73.0 to 0.75.0
    • prometheus-operator from 0.75.0 to 0.77.1
    • prometheus upgraded from 2.53.0 to 2.54.1
    • grafana from 8.2.0 to 8.5.0
    • thanos ruler upgraded from 0.35.1 to 0.36.1
    • prometheus-node-exporter upgraded from 1.8.1 to 1.8.2

  Fixed

  • Add missing depends on annotation on alloy-metrics and alloy-logs to make sure they are deployed after the prometheus-operator-crds.
• Oct 30, 2024 Fleet Management aws-node-termination-handler-app v1.20.0

  Changed

  • Use vendir to pull from upstream repository https://github.com/giantswarm/aws-node-termination-handler-upstream
  • Upgrade image to 1.22.1
• Oct 30, 2024 Observability dashboards v3.26.0

  Changed

  • Resync alloy, loki and mimir mixins from upstream.
• Oct 28, 2024 Fleet Management kubectl-gs v4.3.0

  Added

  • Basic usage tracking data is now collected for every command execution. This should help us maintain and develop the tool. Set the KUBECTL_GS_TELEMETRY_OPTOUT environment variable to an arbitrary value to disable this. Data is submitted to TelemetryDeck in the EU. More details are available in our docs.
• Oct 23, 2024 Security falco-app v0.9.1

  Changed

  • Add feature gates for enabling/disabling individual Falco components.
• Oct 23, 2024 Security trivy-app v0.13.0

  Changed

  • Update Trivy to upstream version v0.56.1.
  • Disable PSPs.
• Oct 23, 2024 Security starboard-exporter v0.8.0

  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.
• Oct 17, 2024 Observability fluent-logshipping-app v5.3.0

  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.

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