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Changes and Releases

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

  • Observability observability-bundle v2.6.0

    Added

    • Add KSM metrics for Gateway API resources.
  • Connectivity ingress-nginx-app v4.2.2

    Changed

    • Chart: Sync to upstream. (#929)
      • Controller: Update image to v1.14.2.
      • Kube Webhook CertGen: Update image to v1.6.6.
  • Connectivity ingress-nginx-app v4.1.6

    Changed

    • Chart: Sync to upstream. (#930)
      • Controller: Update image to v1.13.6.
      • Kube Webhook CertGen: Update image to v1.6.6.
  • Developer Portal backstage v0.98.0

    Added

    • Add search widget to Flux Tree view.
    • Add components to render tool calling in AI chat.
    • Add components to display reasoning in AI chat.

    Changed

  • Observability mimir-app v0.23.0

    Changed

    • Updated helm/mimir/gateway/route.yaml file + values to also define a BackendTrafficPolicy.
  • CAPVCD releases releases cloud-director-33.2.0

    Changes compared to v33.1.1

    Components

    • cluster-cloud-director from v2.4.0 to v2.4.1

    cluster-cloud-director v2.4.0…v2.4.1

    Added

    • Added fix-dns-nic-allocation.sh Ignition script to attach DNS servers to correct network interfaces.

    Fixed

    • Fix a race condition when populating /run/metadata/coreos.
    • Fix race condition in ntpd unit.
  • CAPA releases releases aws-34.0.0

    Warning: Important Note for Upgrading to this Release

    tl;dr: Please first upgrade your existing cluster to Giant Swarm Release v33.1.4 for CAPA or newer before upgrading to this release! Otherwise, you risk service outage and severe issues.

    Giant Swarm Release v34.0.0 for CAPA comes with Kubernetes v1.34. This version contains etcd v3.6, which makes use of the so-called v3 store by default. Before, with etcd v3.5, the v2 store was used by default and synchronized to the already existing v3 store.

    Different flaws could lead to an inconsistency between the old v2 store and the already present but unused standby v3 store in etcd v3.5 and before. Because of this, new etcd v3.6 members, which first start to use this v3 store, might suffer from these inconsistencies.

    This can come into play when upgrading a cluster to this and future releases from any release older than Giant Swarm Release v33.1.4 for CAPA. For this reason, we require you to first upgrade your cluster to Giant Swarm Release v33.1.4 for CAPA or newer before upgrading to this or future releases.

    OIDC Structured Authentication (optional)

    This release introduces optional support for Kubernetes Structured Authentication Configuration for OIDC providers. We recommend testing this feature on a non-production cluster first.

    Minimal example

    global:
  controlPlane:
    oidc:
      structuredAuthentication:
        enabled: true
        issuers:
          - issuerUrl: https://your-idp.example.com
            clientId: kubernetes

    Example with customization

    global:
  controlPlane:
    oidc:
      structuredAuthentication:
        enabled: true
        issuers:
          - issuerUrl: https://your-idp.example.com
            clientId: kubernetes
            usernameClaim: email          # Optional: use 'email' instead of 'sub'
            groupsClaim: roles            # Optional: use 'roles' instead of 'groups'
            usernamePrefix: "oidc:"       # Optional: prefix usernames
            groupsPrefix: "oidc:"         # Optional: prefix groups

    Migration from legacy OIDC configuration

    If you already use OIDC with the legacy configuration, add structuredAuthentication.enabled: true to migrate:

    global:
  controlPlane:
    oidc:
      issuerUrl: https://your-idp.example.com
      clientId: kubernetes
      structuredAuthentication:
        enabled: true

    This will automatically convert your legacy configuration to the new structured format.

    Advanced options

    Additional configuration options are available for more complex setups, including:

    • Multiple audiences (audiences, audienceMatchPolicy)
    • Custom discovery URL (discoveryUrl)
    • Custom CA certificate (caPem)
    • CEL expressions for claim and user validation (claimValidationRules, userValidationRules)
    • Advanced claim mappings with CEL expressions (claimMappings)

    Refer to the Kubernetes Structured Authentication documentation for details.

    Changes compared to v33.1.4

    Components

    • cluster-aws from v6.4.3 to v7.2.5
    • Flatcar from v4459.2.1 to v4459.2.2
    • Kubernetes from v1.33.6 to v1.34.3
    • os-tooling from v1.26.2 to v1.26.3

    cluster-aws v6.4.3…v7.2.5

    Warning: Breaking Changes

    • The following IAM permissions have been removed from the control plane nodes
    • autoscaling:SetDesiredCapacity
    • autoscaling:TerminateInstanceInAutoScalingGroup
    • Removed global.providerSpecific.reducedInstanceProfileIamPermissionsForWorkers value, as that’s the default behavior now. It cannot be overridden anymore.

    Added

    • Add kubernetes.io/cluster/$clusterName: "owned" and sigs.k8s.io/cluster-api-provider-aws/cluster/$clusterName: "owned" tags to the IRSAClaim CR so that resources created by Crossplane contain the expected tags. This also allows to find the S3 buckets that need to be deleted when removing a cluster.
    • This change will roll the control plane nodes Add preKubeadmCommand to wait for the API server load balancer DNS to be resolvable before running kubeadm on control plane nodes. This prevents kubeadm from failing when the ELB DNS record hasn’t propagated yet.
    • This change will roll the nodes Add Crossplane IAM Roles, policies and instance profiles for worker and control plane nodes. Instead of having an IAM Role per node pool, now we’ll use the same for all node pools.
    • Add the priority-classes default app, enabled by default. This app provides standardised PriorityClass resources like giantswarm-critical and giantswarm-high, which should replace the previous inconsistent per-app priority classes.
    • This change will roll the nodes on Karpenter node pools Attach the lb Security Group to Karpenter nodes.
    • This change will roll the nodes on Karpenter node pools Name instance on AWS after the nodepool name.

    Changed

    • Chart: Update cluster to v5.1.2.
    • Chart: Update cluster to v5.1.1.
    • Chart: Update cluster to v5.1.0.
    • Chart: Update cluster to v5.0.0.
    • Reduce redundant parts of JSON schema for Karpenter vs. MachinePool types of node pools
    • Adjust node max pods based on the nodeCidrMaskSize

    Fixed

    • Fix Karpenter schema definition: changed from app schema to helmRelease schema to correctly reflect that Karpenter is deployed as a HelmRelease resource. This fixes incorrect field definitions in extraConfigs (capitalized enum values ConfigMap/Secret and optional field instead of priority).
    • Fix Karpenter NodePool subnet filtering: when users define custom subnetTags, the default giantswarm.io/role: "nodes" filter is no longer applied, allowing full control over subnet selection. The cluster ownership tag (sigs.k8s.io/cluster-api-provider-aws/cluster/<cluster-name>: owned) is still enforced for security.
    • Fix Karpenter HelmRelease: add missing valuesFrom parent field for extraConfigs, enabling customers to use custom ConfigMaps and Secrets for Karpenter configuration.
    • Ensure AWSCluster.spec.network.subnets.tags is not rendered as null
    • Add missing documentation for node pools (health checks were not listed)
    • Ensure defaulting maxHealthyPercentage since Helm does not use the default from the schema

    Removed

    • Remove RolePolicyAttachment crossplane custom resources as they are not needed when using Role and RolePolicy.

    Apps

    • cert-exporter from v2.9.14 to v2.9.15
    • cilium from v1.3.2 to v1.3.4
    • cloud-provider-aws from v1.33.2-1 to v2.0.0
    • cluster-autoscaler from v1.33.1-2 to v1.34.1-1
    • coredns from v1.28.3 to v1.29.1
    • etcd-k8s-res-count-exporter from v1.10.11 to v1.10.12
    • external-dns from v3.2.0 to v3.4.0
    • k8s-audit-metrics from v0.10.10 to v0.10.11
    • network-policies from v0.1.1 to v0.1.3
    • node-exporter from v1.20.9 to v1.20.10
    • Added node-problem-detector v0.5.2
    • observability-bundle from v2.3.2 to v2.5.0
    • Added priority-classes v0.3.0
    • security-bundle from v1.15.0 to v1.16.1

    cert-exporter v2.9.14…v2.9.15

    Changed

    • Go: Update dependencies.

    cilium v1.3.2…v1.3.4

    Changed

    cloud-provider-aws v1.33.2-1…v2.0.0

    Changed

    • Chart: Update to upstream v1.34.0.

    cluster-autoscaler v1.33.1-2…v1.34.1-1

    Changed

    • Chart: Update to upstream v1.34.1.

    coredns v1.28.3…v1.29.1

    Changed

    • Update coredns image to 1.14.1.
    • Update coredns image to 1.14.0.

    etcd-k8s-res-count-exporter v1.10.11…v1.10.12

    Changed

    • Go: Update dependencies.

    external-dns v3.2.0…v3.4.0

    Changed

    • Sync to upstream helm chart 1.20.0.
      • Add option to set annotationPrefix.
      • Fixed the missing schema for .provider.webhook.serviceMonitor configs.
      • Fixed incorrect indentation of selector labels under spec.template.spec.topologySpreadConstraints when topologySpreadConstraints is set.
    • Use kubectl-apply-job when installing CRDs.
    • Upgrade external-dns to v0.20.0.
    • Update DNSEndpoints CRD.
    • Sync to upstream helm chart 1.19.0.
      • Grant discovery.k8s.io/endpointslices permission only when using service source.
      • Update RBAC for Service source to support EndpointSlices.
      • Allow extraArgs to also be a map enabling overrides of individual values.
      • Set defaults for automountServiceAccountToken and serviceAccount.automountServiceAccountToken to true in Helm chart values.
      • Correctly handle txtPrefix and txtSuffix arguments when both are provided.
      • Add ability to generate schema with helm plugin schema.
      • Regenerate JSON schema with `helm-values-schema-json’ plugin.
      • Added ability to configure imagePullSecrets via helm global value.
      • Added options to configure labelFilter and managedRecordTypes via dedicated helm values.
      • Allow templating serviceaccount.annotations keys and values, by rendering them using the tpl built-in function.
      • Added support for extraContainers argument.
      • Added support for setting excludeDomains argument.
      • Added support for setting dnsConfig.
      • Added support for webhook providers.
    • Restrict managed record types to A and CNAME.

    k8s-audit-metrics v0.10.10…v0.10.11

    Changed

    • Go: Update dependencies.

    network-policies v0.1.1…v0.1.3

    Added

    • Add support for Kamaji.

    Fixed

    • Fixed broken templating.

    node-exporter v1.20.9…v1.20.10

    Removed

    • Repository: Remove integration tests.

    node-problem-detector v0.5.2

    Changed

    • Build: Switch to pushing to default instead of playground catalog as this app will be fully supported in production

    observability-bundle v2.3.2…v2.5.0

    Added

    • Add KSM metrics kube_servicemonitor_info and kube_podmonitor_info for ServiceMonitor and PodMonitor resources
    • Add KSM metrics kube_podlog_info for PodLog resource

    Changed

    • Upgrade kube-prometheus-stack-app to 19.0.0
    • Update alloy-app to 0.16.0
      • Bumps alloy to 1.12.0

    Fixed

    • Fixed KSM metrics for endpoints

    priority-classes v0.3.0

    Changed

    • Label now uses chart version instead of app version.

    Removed

    • Removed appVersion (only version is used now).

    security-bundle v1.15.0…v1.16.1

    Changed

    • Add missing dependency to all apps.
    • Allow to set multiple dependencies on the depends-on annotation.
    • Rename edgedb to gel.
    • Update cloudnative-pg (app) to v0.0.12.
    • Update gel (app) to v1.0.1.
  • Continuous Deployment flux-app v1.8.1

    Changed

    • Update Chart.yaml metadata
  • Security external-secrets v0.20.5

    Changed

    • Update chart metadata to add audience and upstream chart version annotations.
  • Fleet Management zot v2.6.2

    Changed

    • Update to upstream Helm Chart v0.1.95 and Zot v2.11.13.