v1.44.0

[gardener-extension-provider-aws]

✨ New Features

• [USER] Enable awslabs/volume-modifier-for-k8s by default (gardener/gardener-extension-provider-aws#754, @kon-angelo)
• [OPERATOR] Flow-based infrastructure reconciliation without Terraformer (gardener/gardener-extension-provider-aws#603, @MartinWeindel)

🐛 Bug Fixes

• [OPERATOR] Allow patching events for aws-custom-route-controller (gardener/gardener-extension-provider-aws#742, @MartinWeindel)

📖 Documentation

• [DEPENDENCY] The flags which went out-of-support in MCM v0.49.0 have been cleaned up from MCM deployment yaml. (gardener/gardener-extension-provider-aws#739, @himanshu-kun)

🏃 Others

• [OPERATOR] Block public access for newly created S3 buckets. (gardener/gardener-extension-provider-aws#738, @shreyas-s-rao)
• [OPERATOR] The admission/validation component is now adapted such that it works well in garden cluster with enabled NetworkPolicy protection (default since gardener/gardener@v1.71 when garden cluster is managed by gardener-operator). (gardener/gardener-extension-provider-aws#747, @rfranzke)
• [OPERATOR] Update go to v1.20.4 (gardener/gardener-extension-provider-aws#753, @kon-angelo)
• [OPERATOR] Update ebs driver to v1.19.0 (gardener/gardener-extension-provider-aws#754, @kon-angelo)
• [OPERATOR] The following images have been updated: (gardener/gardener-extension-provider-aws#757, @dkistner)
  • mtu-customizer: alpine:3.16.2 → alpine:3.18.0
• [OPERATOR] provider-aws does now define proper create and delete timeouts for aws_internet_gateway. Now, these timeouts are aligned with the terraformer's timeout. Previously the timeouts were not aligned and provider-aws was not able to properly report the aws_internet_gateway related error. (gardener/gardener-extension-provider-aws#761, @ialidzhikov)
• [DEPENDENCY] The following dependency is updated: (gardener/gardener-extension-provider-aws#749, @shafeeqes)
  • github.com/gardener/gardener: v1.67.1 -> v1.71.0
  • k8s.io/* : v0.26.2 -> v0.26.3
  • sigs.k8s.io/controller-runtime: v0.14.5-> v0.14.6

[aws-custom-route-controller]

🏃 Others

• [OPERATOR] Update builder image from golang:1.20.2 to golang:1.20.4 (gardener/aws-custom-route-controller#14, @MartinWeindel)
• [OPERATOR] updated kubernetes dependencies from v0.25.4 to v0.26.4 (gardener/aws-custom-route-controller#15, @MartinWeindel)
• [OPERATOR] improved timestamp format for JSON logging; added command-line options for log level and format. (gardener/aws-custom-route-controller#15, @MartinWeindel)

[machine-controller-manager]

⚠️ Breaking Changes

• [OPERATOR] Removal of the following flags (and corresponding fields in associated structs): 'machine-creation-timeout' 'machine-drain-timeout', 'machine-pv-detach-timeout', 'machine-health-timeout=10m', 'machine-safety-apiserver-statuscheck-timeout', 'machine-safety-apiserver-statuscheck-period', 'machine-safety-orphan-vms-period', 'machine-max-evict-retries', 'node-conditions', 'bootstrap-token-auth-extra-groups', 'delete-migrated-machine-class'. The MCM no longer accepts these flags since these are options handled by the Machine Controller invoked by platform specific provider launchers. (gardener/machine-controller-manager#769, @elankath)
• [DEVELOPER] Deletion of 'Driver.GenerateMachineClassForMigration'. Providers need to adapt to this. (gardener/machine-controller-manager#769, @elankath)

✨ New Features

• [USER] Machine object won't turn from Pending to Running state if node.gardener.cloud/critical-components-not-ready taint is there on the corresponding node. (gardener/machine-controller-manager#778, @SimonKienzler)

🐛 Bug Fixes

• [USER] An edge case where all the machineSets were scaled down to zero has been dealt with. (gardener/machine-controller-manager#803, @himanshu-kun)
• [USER] Fix a bug in the bootstrap token creation that caused node to not be able to join the cluster due to an expired bootstrap token. (gardener/machine-controller-manager#773, @schrodit)
• [USER] An edge case where all the machineSets were scaled down to zero has been dealt with. (gardener/machine-controller-manager#804, @himanshu-kun)
• [USER] An edge case where outdated DesiredReplicas annotation blocked a rolling update is fixed. (gardener/machine-controller-manager#822, @rishabh-11)
• [OPERATOR] An issue causing nil pointer panic on scaleup of the machinedeployment along with trigger of rolling update, is fixed (gardener/machine-controller-manager#817, @himanshu-kun)

📖 Documentation

• [DEVELOPER] Added proposal for hot-update of resources (instance/Nic/Disk) (gardener/machine-controller-manager#761, @himanshu-kun)

🏃 Others

• [OPERATOR] CrashloopBackoff machines will turn to Running quicker (gardener/machine-controller-manager#806, @rishabh-11)
• [OPERATOR] CVE categorization for MCM has been added. (gardener/machine-controller-manager#791, @dkistner)
• [DEVELOPER] The API generation now works again. Previously the API docs was generated to a location that was ignored by git and other API docs file was maintained. (gardener/machine-controller-manager#800, @ialidzhikov)
• [DEVELOPER] Bump k8s.io/* dependencies to v1.26.2 (gardener/machine-controller-manager#792, @afritzler)

[machine-controller-manager-provider-aws]

⚠️ Breaking Changes

• [OPERATOR] Support for migration of machineClass is dropped by the mcm-provider (gardener/machine-controller-manager-provider-aws#118, @himanshu-kun)

🐛 Bug Fixes

• [OPERATOR] Fix handling of capacity reservations in MachineClass that prevented correct scale up (gardener/machine-controller-manager-provider-aws#115, @saley89)

🏃 Others

• [OPERATOR] Updated golang version to 1.20.4 (gardener/machine-controller-manager-provider-aws#121, @rishabh-11)
• [DEPENDENCY] upgraded dependency: (gardener/machine-controller-manager-provider-aws#118, @himanshu-kun)
  • github.com/gardener/machine-controller-manager -> v0.49.1

[terraformer]

🏃 Others

• [OPERATOR] Update alpine base image to v3.17.3 (gardener/terraformer#136, @kon-angelo)
• [OPERATOR] Terrafomer base image has been updated from alpine:3.17.2 to alpine:3.18.0 (gardener/terraformer#137, @MartinWeindel)
• [OPERATOR] Builder base image has been updated from golang:1.19.6 to golang:1.20.4 (gardener/terraformer#137, @MartinWeindel)
• [OPERATOR] Gardener dependency has been updated from v1.59.1 to v1.71.2 (gardener/terraformer#137, @MartinWeindel)