Changes and Releases

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

• Oct 15, 2024 kubectl gs kubectl-gs v4.2.0

  Changed

  • BREAKING When templating cluster manifests for CAPV clusters with kubectl gs template cluster command, now we set the workload cluster release version via the --release flag, instead setting cluster-vsphere version via --cluster-version.
• Oct 14, 2024 Observability Platform mimir-app v0.14.0

  Changed

  • Upgrade chart to version 5.5.0 and mimir 2.14.0.
    • Memcached: Update to Memcached 1.6.31-alpine and memcached-exporter 0.14.4.
    • Ingester: set GOMAXPROCS to help with Go scheduling overhead when running on machines with lots of CPU cores.
    • Add missing container security context to run continuous-test under the restricted security policy.
• Oct 14, 2024 Dashboards dashboards v3.25.0

  Added

  • Added “Loki - Slow Queries” dashboard

  Changed

  • Change ownership from BigMac to Shield
• Oct 11, 2024 Observability Platform kube-prometheus-stack-app v12.0.0

  Changed

  • Upgraded chart dependency to kube-prometheus-stack-65.1.1
    • 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

  Removed

  • Get rid of legacy in-house slo framework.
• Oct 11, 2024 Observability Platform prometheus-operator-app v12.0.0

  Changed

  • Upgraded chart dependency to kube-prometheus-stack-65.1.1
    • 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

  Removed

  • Get rid of legacy in-house slo framework.
• Oct 11, 2024 Web UI happa v1.68.1

  What’s Changed

  • Fixed several links to documentation by @marians in https://github.com/giantswarm/happa/pull/4627

  Full Changelog: https://github.com/giantswarm/happa/compare/v1.68.0...v1.68.1

• Oct 10, 2024 Highlights

  Highlights for the week ending 2024-10-10

  Observability

  • alloy-gateway-app version 0.1.0

    • Deploy an extra instance of Grafana Alloy acting as an observability gateway to be able to ingest your logs from outside the clusters in the Giant Swarm managed Loki that is deployed on your management cluster.

  • alloy-app version 0.6.1

    • Upgraded alloy container image to version 1.4.2.
    • Upgraded upstream chart from 0.7.0 to 0.9.1 - see changelog for more information.
    • Fix ciliumnetworkpolicy to allow clustering mode.
      • Bump Chart appVersion to v1.4.2.
      • Fix circleci config.
      • Add PodLogs as helm chart template.
      • Upgrade Alloy upstream chart from 0.7.0 to 0.9.1.
      • This bumps the version of Alloy from 1.3.1 to 1.4.2.
      • Some debug metrics for components have changed.
      • Helm chart changes, see Alloy Helm chart v0.9.0 CHANGELOG
      • Fix CiliumNetworkPolicy to allow outgoing traffic to other nodes when running Alloy in clustering mode

  • grafana-app version 2.16.3

    • Upgraded grafana container image from 11.1.3 to 11.2.1.
    • Upgraded upstream chart from 8.3.4 to 8.5.2
    • Fix CI jobs generating new releases.
    • Upgrade grafana chart: 8.3.4 => 8.5.2
    • Upgrade grafana: 11.1.3 => 11.2.1

  • loki-app version 0.25.2

    • Upgraded upstream chart from 6.12.0 to 6.16.0 - see changelog for more information.

  • observability-bundle version 1.7.0

    • Upgrade to Alloy v1.4.2, which fixes a bug with component reload/evaluation and keeps the component in the latest upstream version.
    • Fixes an issue with CiliumNetworkPolicy preventing Alloy to run in clustering mode

  • observability-operator version 0.6.1

    • Fix CI jobs generating new releases

  • oauth2-proxy-app version 2.14.0

    • Add new configuration flags needed to let JWT token through.
    • Upgrade oauth2-proxy container image tag to v7.7.0
    • Removes oauth2-proxy from non control plane related catalogs.

  • prometheus-rules version 4.18.0

    • Add alerting rule for Loki missing logs at ingestion

  Security

  • kyverno-app version 0.18.1
    • Update Kyverno to upstream version v1.12.6.
    • Update kyverno-policy-reporter to upstream version v2.20.2.

  Fleet management

  • app-operator version 6.11.1

    • Retain a list of finalizers of Chart CR when updating it.
    • Update PolicyExceptions to v2 and failover to v2beta1.

  • zot version 2.0.0

    • Update zot to the latest version v2.1.1.
    • Update all dependencies.
• Oct 10, 2024 Managed Apps karpenter-bundle v1.3.0

  Changed

  • Update karpenter-capa-taint-remover to allow scheduling on all taints.
• Oct 10, 2024 Managed Apps capa-karpenter-taint-remover v0.4.0

  Changed

  • Allow all taints in the daemonset
• Oct 9, 2024 Managed Apps zot v2.0.0

  Changed

  • Moved .serviceMonitor Helm values under .metrics to conform upstream chart.
    • Additionally, now .metrics.enabled and .metrics.serviceMonitor.enabled must both be set to true to deploy the ServiceMonitor to conform upstream.
  • Bump default zot image tag to v2.1.1.

  Removed

  • Removed .serviceMonitor.namespace as it was not used and upstream does not use it either.

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