[gardener]

Improvements

• [USER] When the VPA for shoots is disabled then the CustomResourceDefinitions are no longer deleted (they will remain in the system, together with all the VerticalPodAutoscaler objects - if you don't need them anymore you can remove them with kubectl delete crd <crd-names>). (36c59eb)
• [USER] A bug showing 403 Forbidden responses when creating new Projects has been fixed. (d95b2a5)
• [OPERATOR] Objects into which controllerinstallations and extensions are retrieved during reconciliation by the ControllerInstallation controller and ShootState Sync controller are now created for each reconciliation, instead of the same object being reused multiple times per resource kind. (#2680, @timuthy)
• [OPERATOR] An issue has been fixed which caused the Gardenlet to exit ungracefully due to the missing shoot cluster identify in the .status. (#2680, @timuthy)
• [OPERATOR] The fluent-bit DaemonSet is now tolerating the taint node-role.kubernetes.io/master with effect NoSchedule. (#2680, @timuthy)
• [OPERATOR] An issues has been fixed which caused the Gardenlet to exit ungracefully during the shoot reconciliation. (9cfbccb)
• [OPERATOR] A bug has been fixed that might have caused a 24h absence of the VPA for shooted seeds. (966ba44)
• [OPERATOR] The error code mapping has been extended to categorize certain common issues upfront and furnish them with error codes. (0af164f)
• [OPERATOR] The gardenlet now spreads Shoot health checks to avoid running into rate limits directly after startup. (8574804)
• [OPERATOR] Control plane health checks have been added for VPA components of shoot clusters. These are executed regularly as soon as the shoot uses the Vertical-Pod-Autoscaling feature (https://github.com/gardener/gardener/blob/master/docs/usage/shoot_autoscaling.md#vertical-pod-auto-scaling). (863cefa)
• [OPERATOR] A bug in the OpenAPI specification exposed by the Gardener API server has been fixed. (deade9f)
• [OPERATOR] A bug has been fixed which could cause a nil pointer exception in case the v1.8 Gardenlet tries to delete a shoot that wasn't reconciled yet. (7f78bbe)

[gardener-resource-manager]

Most notable changes

• [DEVELOPER] The new resources.gardener.cloud/keep-object annotation can be used on resources managed by ManagedResource objects in order to keep them in the system in case they get removed from the ManagedResource or the ManagedResource itself is being deleted. (gardener/gardener-resource-manager#73, @rfranzke)

Docker Images

gardener-apiserver: eu.gcr.io/gardener-project/gardener/apiserver:v1.8.1
gardener-controller-manager: eu.gcr.io/gardener-project/gardener/controller-manager:v1.8.1
gardener-scheduler: eu.gcr.io/gardener-project/gardener/scheduler:v1.8.1
seed-admission-controller: eu.gcr.io/gardener-project/gardener/seed-admission-controller:v1.8.1
gardenlet: eu.gcr.io/gardener-project/gardener/gardenlet:v1.8.1