[gardener/etcd-backup-restore]

🐛 Bug Fixes

• [OPERATOR] Fixed a bug in detecting single member restoration scenario for the zeroth pod and when no storage provider for backups is configured. by @ishan16696 [gardener/etcd-backup-restore#761]

🏃 Others

• [OPERATOR] Retry to take full snapshot if the previous full snapshot operation fails. by @ishan16696 [gardener/etcd-backup-restore#765]

Docker Images

• etcd-druid: europe-docker.pkg.dev/gardener-project/releases/gardener/etcd-druid:v0.22.5

[gardener/etcd-druid]

📰 Noteworthy

• Operator/User To improve node utilization compaction job will not add annotation: cluster-autoscaler.kubernetes.io/safe-to-evict: "false" to compaction pod. by @ishan16696 [#850]

[gardener/etcd-backup-restore]

📰 Improvement

• User The Azure Blob Storage domain can now be overridden by providing the overriding domain as a field in the Secret which provides credentials to etcd-backup-restore. by @renormalize #756

Docker Images

• etcd-druid: europe-docker.pkg.dev/gardener-project/releases/gardener/etcd-druid:v0.22.4

[gardener/etcd-druid]

🐛 Bug Fixes

• [OPERATOR] Fixes the labels comparison check done in the PreDeploy step which ensures that the pods have both the old and the new labels. by @unmarshall [#835]
• [OPERATOR] Fixes integration test failures by ensuring necessary StatefulSet pods are created and deleted appropriately during tests to align with updates made in PR #804. by @seshachalam-yv [#839]

Docker Images

• etcd-druid: europe-docker.pkg.dev/gardener-project/releases/gardener/etcd-druid:v0.22.3

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[gardener/etcd-druid]

🏃 Others

• [DEPENDENCY] Add new k8s-recommended labels to etcd pods, to support backward compatibility for etcd-druid:v0.23.0. by @shreyas-s-rao [#804]

[gardener/etcd-backup-restore]

🏃 Others

• [OPERATOR] Introduces periodic updates to the Full Snapshot Lease, addressing delays in lease updates during failures by @ashwani2k [gardener/etcd-backup-restore#747@anveshreddy18]

Docker Images

• etcd-druid: europe-docker.pkg.dev/gardener-project/releases/gardener/etcd-druid:v0.22.1

[gardener/etcd-backup-restore]

⚠️ 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/etcd-backup-restore#688]

🏃 Others

• [OPERATOR] Add unit tests for chunk deletion by @anveshreddy18 [gardener/etcd-backup-restore#685]
• [OPERATOR] Dynamic loading of IaaS credentials is now optimized to make use of file system information instead of calculating a hash of the credentials to detect changes. by @renormalize [gardener/etcd-backup-restore#670]
• [OPERATOR] A regression in chunk deletion behavior for openstack provider has now been fixed. by @shreyas-s-rao [gardener/etcd-backup-restore#703]
• [USER] Add support for overriding storage API endpoint for provider GCS, by setting environment variable GOOGLE_STORAGE_API_ENDPOINT, with the value in the format http[s]://host[:port]/storage/v1/. ⚠️ Note: GCS storage API endpoint will not be overridden for copy subcommand, since backup buckets may reside in different regions. by @shreyas-s-rao [gardener/etcd-backup-restore#691]

[gardener/etcd-druid]

⚠️ 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 @shreyas-s-rao [#756]

Docker Images

• etcd-druid: europe-docker.pkg.dev/gardener-project/releases/gardener/etcd-druid:v0.21.1

[gardener/etcd-druid]

⚠️ Breaking Changes

• [OPERATOR] UseEtcdWrapper feature gate has progressed from the alpha stage to the beta stage, which now allows for its default usage in etcd-druid. If you prefer to continue using the etcd-custom-image, you can disable the etcd-wrapper by setting the feature flag to false. by @ishan16696 [#744]
• [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 [#735]

✨ New Features

• [USER] Add support for overriding storage API endpoint for provider GCS, by adding new field storageAPIEndpoint in the GCP/GCS backup secret, with the value in the format http[s]://host[:port]/storage/v1/. ⚠️ Note: GCS storage API endpoint will not be overridden for EtcdCopyBackupsTasks, since backup buckets may reside in different regions. by @shreyas-s-rao [#737]

🏃 Others

• [OPERATOR] Documentation for the controllers of etcd-druid by @renormalize [#722]
• [OPERATOR] Adds documentation for local setup of Etcd Druid by @anveshreddy18 [#721]
• [DEVELOPER] Upgrade to go 1.21.4 by @seshachalam-yv [#727]

[gardener/etcd-backup-restore]

⚠️ 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/etcd-backup-restore#688]

🏃 Others

• [OPERATOR] Add unit tests for chunk deletion by @anveshreddy18 [gardener/etcd-backup-restore#685]
• [OPERATOR] Dynamic loading of IaaS credentials is now optimized to make use of file system information instead of calculating a hash of the credentials to detect changes. by @renormalize [gardener/etcd-backup-restore#670]
• [OPERATOR] A regression in chunk deletion behavior for openstack provider has now been fixed. by @shreyas-s-rao [gardener/etcd-backup-restore#703]
• [USER] Add support for overriding storage API endpoint for provider GCS, by setting environment variable GOOGLE_STORAGE_API_ENDPOINT, with the value in the format http[s]://host[:port]/storage/v1/. ⚠️ Note: GCS storage API endpoint will not be overridden for copy subcommand, since backup buckets may reside in different regions. by @shreyas-s-rao [gardener/etcd-backup-restore#691]

[gardener/etcd-wrapper]

⚠️ 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 @shreyas-s-rao [gardener/etcd-wrapper#22]

🏃 Others

• [OPERATOR] The etcd process now runs with umask set to 0077, this way the files it creates have no permissions on group and others level. by @AleksandarSavchev [gardener/etcd-wrapper#16]

Docker Images

• etcd-druid: europe-docker.pkg.dev/gardener-project/releases/gardener/etcd-druid:v0.22.0

[gardener/etcd-druid]

📰 Noteworthy

• [DEVELOPER] Added e2e test for compaction. by @abdasgupta [#723]
• [OPERATOR] Compaction job now reconciles on Job Status changes along with the holder identity changes in snapshot leases. by @abdasgupta [#711]

✨ New Features

• [DEVELOPER] Added documentation and sample configurations for simplifying Localstack setup, making it easier for developers to create a local testing environment using a Kind cluster. by @seshachalam-yv [#713]

🐛 Bug Fixes

• [OPERATOR] Local storage provider for backups is now supported for snapshot compaction jobs. by @abdasgupta [#682]

🏃 Others

• [OPERATOR] Update alpine image version to 3.18.4. by @shreyas-s-rao [#724]

📖 Documentation

• [OPERATOR] Updated the recovery from permanent quorum loss ops guide. by @ishan16696 [#697]

[gardener/etcd-backup-restore]

📰 Noteworthy

• [OPERATOR] Fix a restoration failure which can occurs due to an etcd database space exceeds during restoration. by @ishan16696 [gardener/etcd-backup-restore#668]
• [OPERATOR] Making etcd-backup-restore restart tolerant while scaling-up an etcd cluster. by @ishan16696 [gardener/etcd-backup-restore#661]

🏃 Others

• [USER] The snapshots are fetched from the actual backend store when queried for latest snapshots on /snapshot/latest endpoint. by @abdasgupta [gardener/etcd-backup-restore#675]
• [OPERATOR] Enhanced Garbage Collector to garbage collect the chunks for cloud providers like GCP and OpenStack which does not automatically delete snapshot chunks after the formation of a composite object. by @anveshreddy18 [gardener/etcd-backup-restore#673]

Docker Images

• etcd-druid: eu.gcr.io/gardener-project/gardener/etcd-druid:v0.21.0

[gardener/etcd-druid]

🏃 Others

• [OPERATOR] Alpine image used in init containers is now part of the IMAGEVECTOR_OVERWRITE by @aaronfern [#714]

[gardener/etcd-backup-restore]

🏃 Others

• [OPERATOR] Update alpine base image version to 3.18.4. by @shreyas-s-rao [gardener/etcd-backup-restore#666]
• [OPERATOR] Introduced delta-snapshot-retention-period CLI flag to extend the configurable retention period for delta snapshots in etcd-backup-restore, enhancing flexibility for backup retention. by @seshachalam-yv [gardener/etcd-backup-restore#669]