v1.56.0

[gardener/machine-controller-manager]

⚠️ Breaking Changes

• [OPERATOR] Change OCI Image Registry from GCR (eu.gcr.io/gardener-project) to Artifact-Registry (europe-docker.pkg.dev/gardener-project/releases). Users should update their references. by @ccwienk [gardener/machine-controller-manager#878]
• [DEVELOPER] New provider method Driver.InitializeMachine added for Post-Creation VM Instance Initialization steps. by @elankath [gardener/machine-controller-manager#898]

🐛 Bug Fixes

• [OPERATOR] Fix for edge case of Node object deletion missed during machine termination. by @elankath [gardener/machine-controller-manager#887]
• [DEVELOPER] A bug in UpdateNodeToMachine which cause the IT to fail is fixed. by @elankath [gardener/machine-controller-manager#893]
• [DEVELOPER] MCM restart happens properly in integration tests now. This fix will get activated, once this version is vendored in your mcm-provider by @sssash18 [gardener/machine-controller-manager#879]

🏃 Others

• [OPERATOR] Removed vendor directory by @rishabh-11 [gardener/machine-controller-manager#903]
• [OPERATOR] Updated k8s dependencies to v0.29.3 by @rishabh-11 [gardener/machine-controller-manager#907]
• [OPERATOR] fixed IT for seed with k8s >= 1.27 as control cluster by @piyuagr [gardener/machine-controller-manager#869]
• [OPERATOR] machine controller won't reconcile machine on non-spec update events by @himanshu-kun [gardener/machine-controller-manager#877]
• [OPERATOR] Architecture field added in the nodetemplate. This will allow CA to pickup architecture from machine class and schedule pods on relevant arch nodes. by @sssash18 [gardener/machine-controller-manager#894]
• [DEVELOPER] go-git now removed from dependencies due to CVE's. by @elankath [gardener/machine-controller-manager#896]
• [DEVELOPER] Bump k8s.io/* deps to v0.28.2 by @afritzler [gardener/machine-controller-manager#858]

📖 Documentation

• [DEVELOPER] Phase transition diagram for a machine object is added to FAQs by @himanshu-kun [gardener/machine-controller-manager#886]

[gardener/machine-controller-manager-provider-aws]

✨ New Features

• [OPERATOR] Add Ipv6AddressCount and Ipv6PrefixCount to enable the assignment of an ipv6 address and an ipv6 prefix to instances. by @gardener-robot-ci-2 [gardener/machine-controller-manager-provider-aws#162]
• [USER] It is now possible to specify CPU options for AWS instances. by @AndreasBurger [gardener/machine-controller-manager-provider-aws#161]
• [USER] Implements the driver metrics added to MCM in version 0.50.0 such that duration of calls to AWS and any failed requests are recorded:
  • driver_request_duration_seconds
  • driver_requests_failed_total by @saley89 [gardener/machine-controller-manager-provider-aws#153]

🏃 Others

• [OPERATOR] Vendor directory removed by @rishabh-11 [gardener/machine-controller-manager-provider-aws#160]

[gardener/gardener-extension-provider-aws]

📰 Noteworthy

• [OPERATOR] Aws error code NoSuchHostedZone is now ignored on DNSRecord deletion by @Kostov6 [#971]

✨ New Features

• [USER] CPU Options for AWS instances can now be set in the worker config. by @AndreasBurger [#924]

🏃 Others

• [OPERATOR] A problem with deploying MachineClasses that reference an operating system image whose version contains a + character was fixed. by @MrBatschner [#983]
• [OPERATOR] Validation of shoots now takes the CloudProfile into account to make sure that the configured images are defined. by @AndreasBurger [#979]

Docker Images

• gardener-extension-admission-aws: europe-docker.pkg.dev/gardener-project/releases/gardener/extensions/admission-aws:v1.56.0
• gardener-extension-provider-aws: europe-docker.pkg.dev/gardener-project/releases/gardener/extensions/provider-aws:v1.56.0

v1.55.1

[gardener/gardener-extension-provider-aws]

🐛 Bug Fixes

• [OPERATOR] Fixes a monitoring configuration issue that caused false CCM-down alerts to fire. by @AndreasBurger [#975]

Docker Images

• gardener-extension-admission-aws: europe-docker.pkg.dev/gardener-project/releases/gardener/extensions/admission-aws:v1.55.1
• gardener-extension-provider-aws: europe-docker.pkg.dev/gardener-project/releases/gardener/extensions/provider-aws:v1.55.1

v1.55.0

[gardener/gardener-extension-provider-aws]

⚠️ Breaking Changes

• [OPERATOR] This extension is no longer able to run with Gardener versions lower than v1.90 when the UseGardenerNodeAgent feature gate is disabled. by @rfranzke [#920]

✨ New Features

• [USER] The provider-aws extension does now support shoot clusters with Kubernetes version 1.30. You should consider the Kubernetes release notes before upgrading to 1.30. by @shafeeqes [#942]
• [USER] New Etcd gp3 volumes are now created with 25Gi capacity instead of 80Gi to save on storage costs. by @renormalize [#933]
• [OPERATOR] This extension now makes use of the new .spec.pools[].userDataSecretRef field to get to the worker pool user data. by @rfranzke [#961]

🐛 Bug Fixes

• [OPERATOR] Temporarily forces bastion image to have version 1312.x.x by @hebelsan [#968]

🏃 Others

• [OPERATOR] The controlplaneexposure.aws.extensions.gardener.cloud webhook does no longer mutate Services/Deployments. Previously the webhook was called for Services/Deployments mutations and was not mutating anything. by @ialidzhikov [#952]
• [OPERATOR] Fix a bug in which the infrastructure flow reconciler would fail to complete when the shoot's sshAccess was disabled. The reconciler now properly reconciles and deletes the ssh keypair as needed. by @kon-angelo [#967]
• [OPERATOR] This extension is now using the new way of providing monitoring configuration (ref GEP-19) in case a shoot cluster's Prometheus has been migrated to management via prometheus-operator. by @rfranzke [#946]
• [OPERATOR] Fix the categorization of the error when a user-provided VPC was not found by @kon-angelo [#915]
• [OPERATOR] Bumps github.com/gardener/gardener from 1.92.0 to 1.93.0. by @dependabot[bot] [#927]
• [OPERATOR] Fix a segmentation fault error when trying to delete the infrastructure with the flow reconciler if the VPC has not been successfully created. by @kon-angelo [#947]

Docker Images

• gardener-extension-admission-aws: europe-docker.pkg.dev/gardener-project/releases/gardener/extensions/admission-aws:v1.55.0
• gardener-extension-provider-aws: europe-docker.pkg.dev/gardener-project/releases/gardener/extensions/provider-aws:v1.55.0

v1.54.1

[gardener/gardener-extension-provider-aws]

🐛 Bug Fixes

• [OPERATOR] DNSRecord controller will not create ALIAS DNS records for AWS "us-gov" zones anymore. by @AndreasBurger [#930]

🏃 Others

• [OPERATOR] Bump github.com/gardener/external-dns-management from 0.18.4 to 0.18.5. by @AndreasBurger [#930]

Docker Images

• gardener-extension-admission-aws: europe-docker.pkg.dev/gardener-project/releases/gardener/extensions/admission-aws:v1.54.1
• gardener-extension-provider-aws: europe-docker.pkg.dev/gardener-project/releases/gardener/extensions/provider-aws:v1.54.1

v1.54.0

[gardener/gardener-extension-provider-aws]

⚠️ Breaking Changes

• [OPERATOR] provider-aws no longer supports Shoots with Кubernetes version == 1.24. by @shafeeqes [#849]
• [USER] [csi-snapshotter] Enable prevent-volume-mode-conversion feature flag by default. Volume mode change can still be triggered with the respective annotations. You can read more in the KEP by @AndreasBurger [#899]

🐛 Bug Fixes

• [DEVELOPER] source- prefix of BackupEntry name is being ignored when performing entry deletion by @Kostov6 [#892]

🏃 Others

• [DEPENDENCY] The following golang dependencies have been upgraded :
  • gardener/gardener: v1.87.0->v1.91.1
  • k8s.io/* : v0.28.3 -> v0.29.3
  • sigs.k8s.io/controller-runtime: v0.16.3-> v0.17.2 by @shafeeqes [#901]
• [OPERATOR] The following images are updated:
  • registry.k8s.io/provider-aws/cloud-controller-manager: v1.25.14 -> v1.25.15
  • registry.k8s.io/provider-aws/cloud-controller-manager: v1.26.10 -> v1.26.11
  • registry.k8s.io/provider-aws/cloud-controller-manager: v1.27.5 -> v1.27.6
  • registry.k8s.io/provider-aws/cloud-controller-manager: v1.28.4 -> v1.28.5
  • registry.k8s.io/provider-aws/cloud-controller-manager: v1.29.1 -> v1.29.2 by @ialidzhikov [#900]
• [OPERATOR] add os information as labels in machine class objects. by @tedteng [#894]
• [OPERATOR] NodeGroupAutoscalingOptions can now be specified per worker group via the worker through the field worker.spec.pools.clusterAutoscaler by @shafeeqes [#901]

Docker Images

• gardener-extension-admission-aws: europe-docker.pkg.dev/gardener-project/releases/gardener/extensions/admission-aws:v1.54.0
• gardener-extension-provider-aws: europe-docker.pkg.dev/gardener-project/releases/gardener/extensions/provider-aws:v1.54.0

v1.53.2

[gardener/gardener-extension-provider-aws]

📰 Noteworthy

• [OPERATOR] It is assumed that gardenlet's UseGardenerNodeAgent is turned on by default if the feature gate is not explicitly set. Hence, make sure to use at least Gardener v1.82 when using this extension version. by @oliver-goetz [#914]

Docker Images

• gardener-extension-admission-aws: europe-docker.pkg.dev/gardener-project/releases/gardener/extensions/admission-aws:v1.53.2
• gardener-extension-provider-aws: europe-docker.pkg.dev/gardener-project/releases/gardener/extensions/provider-aws:v1.53.2

v1.53.1

[gardener/terraformer]

🏃 Others

• [OPERATOR] Update go -> v1.21.5 by @kon-angelo [gardener/terraformer#146]
• [OPERATOR] Update alpine -> v1.29.0 by @kon-angelo [gardener/terraformer#146]

Docker Images

• gardener-extension-admission-aws: europe-docker.pkg.dev/gardener-project/releases/gardener/extensions/admission-aws:v1.53.1
• gardener-extension-provider-aws: europe-docker.pkg.dev/gardener-project/releases/gardener/extensions/provider-aws:v1.53.1

v1.52.2

[gardener/gardener-extension-provider-aws]

🏃 Others

• [OPERATOR] Update terraformer to v2.25.0 by @AndreasBurger [#891]

Docker Images

• gardener-extension-admission-aws: europe-docker.pkg.dev/gardener-project/releases/gardener/extensions/admission-aws:v1.52.2
• gardener-extension-provider-aws: europe-docker.pkg.dev/gardener-project/releases/gardener/extensions/provider-aws:v1.52.2

v1.53.0

[gardener/gardener-extension-provider-aws]

✨ New Features

• [USER] Adapt Kubelet to use ecr-credential-provider on k8s >=v1.27 by @kon-angelo [#854]

🏃 Others

• [OPERATOR] [dnsrecords] AAAA alias targets for load balancers with IPv6 addresses with annotation dns.gardener.cloud/ip-stack=dual-stack by @MartinWeindel [#847]

Docker Images

• gardener-extension-admission-aws: europe-docker.pkg.dev/gardener-project/releases/gardener/extensions/admission-aws:v1.53.0
• gardener-extension-provider-aws: europe-docker.pkg.dev/gardener-project/releases/gardener/extensions/provider-aws:v1.53.0

v1.52.1

[gardener/gardener-extension-provider-aws]

🏃 Others

• [OPERATOR] Admission controller will be deployed with the LEADER_ELECTION_NAMESPACE set to the pod namespace by @kon-angelo [#879]

Docker Images

• gardener-extension-admission-aws: europe-docker.pkg.dev/gardener-project/releases/gardener/extensions/admission-aws:v1.52.1
• gardener-extension-provider-aws: europe-docker.pkg.dev/gardener-project/releases/gardener/extensions/provider-aws:v1.52.1