kops v1.36.0

See the full kOps 1.36 release notes for details, including breaking changes and deprecations.

Highlights

• Kubernetes 1.36 support and completion of the move away from the in-tree cloud providers
• Reworked addon management: kops-channels now runs as a static pod on control-plane nodes; the standalone channels binary is no longer distributed
• Hybrid bootstrap for gossip clusters: workers bootstrap directly against the API load balancer, easing migration off gossip DNS, which is deprecated
• Karpenter refresh: Karpenter v1.13.0 with kOps-managed EC2NodeClass and NodePool objects per instance group
• etcd-manager improvements: recovery of members with replaced data disks, membership changes resilient to unreachable members, a distroless image, and faster single-member cluster startup
• Expanded Azure support: cloud-controller-manager, Azure Disk CSI driver, and experimental Terraform target
• Hetzner Cluster Autoscaler support and groundwork for Linode (Akamai) as a new cloud provider
• Component updates: containerd v2.2.4, etcd-manager v3.0.20260707 with etcd 3.5.31/3.6.12, AWS Load Balancer Controller v3.3.0, Cilium tunables, CoreDNS v1.14.2, cluster-autoscaler v1.36.0
• Removed: support for Kubernetes 1.30, etcd 3.4, Amazon Linux 2, Ubuntu 20.04, and Debian 10

What’s Changed

• Automated cherry pick of #18467: aws: Reconcile target group health check changes on existing target groups by @hakman in https://github.com/kubernetes/kops/pull/18469
• Automated cherry pick of #18484: gce: emit kops.k8s.io/instancegroup node label by @rifelpet in https://github.com/kubernetes/kops/pull/18488
• Automated cherry pick of #18478: nodeup: load ip_set module and disable firewalld on RHEL10 by @rifelpet in https://github.com/kubernetes/kops/pull/18492
• Automated cherry pick of #18498: Remove namespace from DO ClusterRole by @rifelpet in https://github.com/kubernetes/kops/pull/18499
• Automated cherry pick of #18511: Allow setting missing slice elements from the command line by @hakman in https://github.com/kubernetes/kops/pull/18512
• Automated cherry pick of ##18479: Upgrade Karpenter to v1.13.0 ##18486: Register Karpenter nodes with karpenter.sh/unregistered taint ##18487: Add missing EC2 read permissions to Karpenter IAM policy ##18497: Add managed Karpenter EC2NodeClass and NodePool by @hakman in https://github.com/kubernetes/kops/pull/18513
• Automated cherry pick of #18522: azure: Scope nodes-to-API NSG rules to the NAT gateway public IP by @hakman in https://github.com/kubernetes/kops/pull/18523
• Automated cherry pick of #18527: azure: Bump azuredisk-csi-driver to v1.34.4 by @hakman in https://github.com/kubernetes/kops/pull/18528
• Automated cherry pick of #18529: azure: Bump azure-cloud-controller-manager to v1.36.2 by @hakman in https://github.com/kubernetes/kops/pull/18531
• Automated cherry pick of #18533: azure: Grant control-plane VMSS Contributor instead of Owner by @hakman in https://github.com/kubernetes/kops/pull/18534
• Automated cherry pick of #18535: coredns: Honor node taints in hostname topologySpreadConstraint by @hakman in https://github.com/kubernetes/kops/pull/18536
• Automated cherry pick of #18538: hetzner: fix Cluster Autoscaler node group membership by @hakman in https://github.com/kubernetes/kops/pull/18539
• Automated cherry pick of #18541: Update cluster-autoscaler to v1.36.0 by @hakman in https://github.com/kubernetes/kops/pull/18542
• Automated cherry pick of #18543: gce: register all zonal MIGs of a multi-zone instance group with cluster-autoscaler by @hakman in https://github.com/kubernetes/kops/pull/18544
• Automated cherry pick of #18546: Update Go to 1.26.5 and bump golang.org/x modules by @hakman in https://github.com/kubernetes/kops/pull/18547
• Cherry pick of #18560: etcd-manager: upgrade to v3.0.20260707 by @hakman in https://github.com/kubernetes/kops/pull/18561
• Automated cherry pick of #18556: feat(api): add storageInitializationTimeout to KubeAPIServerConfig by @hakman in https://github.com/kubernetes/kops/pull/18558
• Cherry pick of #18549: Replace fi.PtrTo with new() builtin by @hakman in https://github.com/kubernetes/kops/pull/18551
• Automated cherry pick of #18567: dns-controller: always apply the addon, empty when unused by @hakman in https://github.com/kubernetes/kops/pull/18573
• Release 1.36.0 by @hakman in https://github.com/kubernetes/kops/pull/18591

Full Changelog: https://github.com/kubernetes/kops/compare/v1.36.0-beta.1…v1.36.0

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