Release notes for 1.7.0-rc.0

Container images

docker.io/scylladb/scylla-operator:1.7.0-rc.0

Changes By Kind (since 1.6.1)

Feature

• Add e2e test for rebootstrapping from existing PVCs (#714,@rzetelskik)
• Live reload webhook server certificates (#764,@rzetelskik)
• Expose shard aware ports in Scylla Services (#793,@zimnx)
• Allow removing empty racks from ScyllaCluster Spec (#796,@zimnx)
• Parallel e2es (#862,@tnozicka)
• Use direct localhost connection to Scylla in sidecar (#884,@zimnx)
• Cache iotune results in persistent location (#888,@zimnx)
• Update readiness immediatelly (#891,@tnozicka)
• Automatically provision ScyllaCluster member ServiceAccount for the sidecar (#907,@tnozicka)

Bug

• Convert ephemeral storage to xfs on GKE (#770,@rzetelskik)
• Increase TerminationGracePeriodSeconds of Scylla pods (#867,@rzetelskik)
• Don't act on scylla pods that are being deleted in nodeconfigpod controller (#873,@tnozicka)
• Fix ownerRefs for nodeconfigpod controller (#882,@tnozicka)
• Switch liveness probe to /system/uptime_ms endpoint (#898,@zimnx)
• Delete drained pods on upgrades (#901,@tnozicka)
• Explicitly set user/group for all Scylla Pod containers (#911,@zimnx)

Documentation

• Build and publish 1.6 documentation (#858,@zimnx)
• Operator upgrade guide (#864,@zimnx)
• Mark v1.6 as stable documentation (#870,@zimnx)
• Bump release schedule (#871,@zimnx)
• Performance tuning documentation (#872,@zimnx)
• Reword the performance documentation (#877,@zimnx)
• Update docs theme to 1.0.6 and add CI (#886,@tnozicka)
• Fix sysctls example in docs (#895,@tnozicka)
• Fix supported releases for v1.6 (#902,@rzetelskik)

Flaky/Failing Test

• Account for image pull times when determining in e2e timeouts (#889,@tnozicka)
• Fix panic in NoeConfig e2e (#912,@tnozicka)

Other

• Bump Go to 1.17.2 in release script (#861,@zimnx)
• Bump minikube to v1.24 (#880,@tnozicka)
• Bump golang to 1.17.5 (#892,@tnozicka)
• Raise loglevel in CI to V4 (#900,@tnozicka)
• Build docs on presubmits only for the current branch (#909,@tnozicka)
• Reduce build dependencies (#910,@tnozicka)
• Pin tags to 1.7 (#924,@zimnx)