Release notes for Cluster API Provider AWS (CAPA) v2.0.0

Documentation

IMPORTANT

This is a major version change due to a number of API changes. Please review the changes below in the API Changes section.

If you plan to create new EKS clusters, please be aware that we have re-introduced AWSManagedCluster and it's advised that you use this as the infrastructure cluster going forwards. For example:

apiVersion: cluster.x-k8s.io/v1beta1
kind: Cluster
metadata:
  name: "ekstest"
spec:
  clusterNetwork:
    pods:
      cidrBlocks: ["192.168.0.0/16"]
  infrastructureRef:
    kind: AWSManagedCluster
    apiVersion: infrastructure.cluster.x-k8s.io/v1beta2
    name: "ekstest"
  controlPlaneRef:
    kind: AWSManagedControlPlane
    apiVersion: controlplane.cluster.x-k8s.io/v1beta2
    name: "ekstest-control-plane"

Changelog since v1.5.1

What's Changed

⚠ API Changes

• add option for disabling instance refresh by @harveyxia in #3730
• Remove ARN field from AWSResourceReference by @Ankitasw in #3835
• Remove failure domain from AWSMachineSpec to respect CAPI's Machine/MD failure domain field by @Ankitasw in #3847
• feat: re-introduce awsmanagedcluster by @richardcase in #3797

🚀 Features

• feat: add custom environment variables to the 'aws-node' DaemonSet by @charlie-haley in #3374
• Add AWSMachinePool test to eks e2e test by @pydctw in #3607
• Add spot instance support in AWSMachinePool by @Ankitasw in #3563
• Add ClusterClass tests by @pydctw in #3472, #3491
• Add scaling from 0 support by @Skarlso in #3684
• Add ipv6 support for EKS by @Skarlso in #3513
• Align logging practices with cluster-api by @Skarlso in #3722
• Suspend and Resume ASG Processes by @Skarlso in #3741
• Unify the logger interface in CAPA by @Skarlso in #3776
• Enhance the EKSConfigTemplate and add configuration for files, mounts, users, ntp, etc for CAPI feature parity by @cnmcavoy in #3757
• allow annotation on MachinePool to set externally managed by @mweibel in #3683
• Make overwrite the default behaviour for conflict resolution in addons by @Skarlso in #3833
• Add CCM tag to routing tables by @Skarlso in #3838
• AWSManagedMachinePool - Launch Template support by @richardchen331 in #3094

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Removed additionalTag application on unmanaged subnets by @Ankitasw in #3512
• Revert "Streamline Ginkgo variables" #3501 by @sedefsavas in #3561
• Fix the json tag for VpcCni by @Skarlso in #3566
• Add deduplication handling and only update if there is a need for it by @Skarlso in #3568
• [clusterawsadm] Fix attaching CSI policy to control plane IAM role by @sedefsavas in #3595
• Fix aws-node-env checker to use the correct input and context by @Skarlso in #3612
• Fix apidiff target by @Prajyot-Parab in #3634
• Fix the update logic for aws-node daemonset environment properties by @Skarlso in #3677
• chore: adding rbac generation back in by @richardcase in #3685
• adding a return nil after deleting cni by @luthermonson in #3674
• Relax the AWSManagedControlPlane version regex and remove normalising the version by @Skarlso in #3682
• fix validation for aws tags with spaces by @Jacobious52 in #3702
• Fix multitenancy topic for secretRef syntax by @Skarlso in #3719
• Add elasticloadbalancing:DeregisterTargets to control plane role policy by @cnmcavoy in #3727
• Add ASG Instance AZ SDK API to CAPA API conversion by @Ankitasw in #3743
• Downgrade K8s dependency version to v0.24 by @sedefsavas in #3758
• Use the eksClusterName passed in to the function instead of the scope configured one by @Skarlso in #3713
• normalize oidc configs to string values for comparison by @luthermonson in #3735
• Try to find and verify existing OIDC providers before we try to create a new one by @codablock in #2901
• deleting additional vpc cni resources when disabled by @luthermonson in #3732
• Add EventBridge ec2 event reconciliation and rule creation to eks managed control planes by @cnmcavoy in #3752
• Skip deleting 'control-plane.cluster-api-provider-aws.sigs.k8s.io' if it does not exist in the e2e setup by @cnmcavoy in #3795
• [E2E] Fix test flavor generation make targets by @Ankitasw in #3800
• fix: remove check for root volume device name on create by @AverageMarcus in #3798
• rework vpc cni envvar logic to drop the forced keys by @luthermonson in #3681
• Change naming format of AMIs while searching for AMIs by @Ankitasw in #3790
• More nil checks for Version by @luthermonson in #3769
• [E2E] Add check that the pod list is not empty. by @Skarlso in #3841
• Change AMI name generation based on new format in image-builder by @Ankitasw in #3829

Please see the CHANGELOG.md attached in the assets section for a full list of changes that include documentation, dependency and other changes.

New Contributors

• @banthaherder made their first contribution in #3552
• @charlie-haley made their first contribution in #3374
• @yogeek made their first contribution in #3576
• @bhegazy made their first contribution in #3615
• @tobiasgiese made their first contribution in #3613
• @tasdikrahman made their first contribution in #3460
• @steve-fraser made their first contribution in #3737
• @harveyxia made their first contribution in #3730
• @AverageMarcus made their first contribution in #3798
• @cablunar made their first contribution in #3815
• @phoban01 made their first contribution in #3467

The image for this release is: registry.k8s.io/cluster-api-aws/cluster-api-aws-controller:v2.0.0

A special thanks to @dlipovetsky, @Ankitasw and @Skarlso who have moved to be maintainers. And also to @AverageMarcus who moved to be a reviewer.

Thank you to all our contributors!