kops v1.37.0-alpha.1

What’s Changed

• Support etcd 3.7.0-rc.0 and allow overriding the etcd version in the scalability scenario by @Jefftree in https://github.com/kubernetes/kops/pull/18458
• Enable misspell in golangci-lint by @ameukam in https://github.com/kubernetes/kops/pull/17578
• e2e: Filter random AZ selection by instance type availability by @rifelpet in https://github.com/kubernetes/kops/pull/18463
• azure: Use IMDS attested metadata document for node identity by @hakman in https://github.com/kubernetes/kops/pull/18163
• gce: fix backend service ownership filtering during delete by @carterpewpew in https://github.com/kubernetes/kops/pull/18460
• aws: Reconcile target group health check changes on existing target groups by @hakman in https://github.com/kubernetes/kops/pull/18467
• gce: Reconcile HTTP health check changes on existing health checks by @hakman in https://github.com/kubernetes/kops/pull/18468
• Improve Google Storage Bucket support. by @cheftako in https://github.com/kubernetes/kops/pull/18466
• Enable gosec and gocritic by @ameukam in https://github.com/kubernetes/kops/pull/18470
• Add serathius as scalability test owner by @Jefftree in https://github.com/kubernetes/kops/pull/18475
• feat(linode): implement SSH key management and associated tasks by @moshevayner in https://github.com/kubernetes/kops/pull/18383
• Added support for APIServer using LB by @cheftako in https://github.com/kubernetes/kops/pull/18459
• chore(channels): bump k8s versions in alpha channel by @moshevayner in https://github.com/kubernetes/kops/pull/18477
• Upgrade Karpenter to v1.13.0 by @hakman in https://github.com/kubernetes/kops/pull/18479
• scaletest: Report experiment variant into scalability run metadata by @Jefftree in https://github.com/kubernetes/kops/pull/18476
• channels: Add Kubernetes 1.36.0 support by @hakman in https://github.com/kubernetes/kops/pull/18480
• gce: emit kops.k8s.io/instancegroup node label by @rifelpet in https://github.com/kubernetes/kops/pull/18484
• e2e: Skip ImageVolume tests on COS 121 by @rifelpet in https://github.com/kubernetes/kops/pull/18483
• Register Karpenter nodes with karpenter.sh/unregistered taint by @hakman in https://github.com/kubernetes/kops/pull/18486
• Add missing EC2 read permissions to Karpenter IAM policy by @hakman in https://github.com/kubernetes/kops/pull/18487
• scaletest: report experiment variant after kubetest2 runs by @Jefftree in https://github.com/kubernetes/kops/pull/18485
• nodeup: load ip_set module and disable firewalld on RHEL10 by @rifelpet in https://github.com/kubernetes/kops/pull/18478
• API only CLI by @cheftako in https://github.com/kubernetes/kops/pull/18482
• Fixing LB behavior when you have both APIServer and Control Plane. by @cheftako in https://github.com/kubernetes/kops/pull/18496
• Remove namespace from DO ClusterRole by @rifelpet in https://github.com/kubernetes/kops/pull/18498
• chore(channels): promote to stable, bump node images, update recommended kOps versions by @hakman in https://github.com/kubernetes/kops/pull/18501
• build(deps): bump actions/checkout from 6.0.3 to 7.0.0 by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/kubernetes/kops/pull/18505
• scaletest: bind etcd metrics to all interfaces by @Jefftree in https://github.com/kubernetes/kops/pull/18503
• e2e: test the PR’s own channels, not master’s by @hakman in https://github.com/kubernetes/kops/pull/18504
• tests/e2e: refine externalTrafficPolicy=Local and hostNetwork skips by @rifelpet in https://github.com/kubernetes/kops/pull/18509
• Allow setting missing slice elements from the command line by @hakman in https://github.com/kubernetes/kops/pull/18511
• Add managed Karpenter EC2NodeClass and NodePool by @hakman in https://github.com/kubernetes/kops/pull/18497
• tests/e2e: skip implement-NodePort ETP=Local test on more CNIs by @rifelpet in https://github.com/kubernetes/kops/pull/18515
• chore(channels): pin Azure noble image to a deployable version by @hakman in https://github.com/kubernetes/kops/pull/18516
• Switching from comparison on Role to helper. by @cheftako in https://github.com/kubernetes/kops/pull/18514
• tests/e2e: also skip implement-NodePort ETP=Local test on calico+GCE by @rifelpet in https://github.com/kubernetes/kops/pull/18517
• build(deps): bump actions/setup-go from 6.4.0 to 6.5.0 by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/kubernetes/kops/pull/18518
• Make cloud-controller-manager pods tolerate all taints by @rifelpet in https://github.com/kubernetes/kops/pull/18510
• Add an experimental roles feature flag. by @cheftako in https://github.com/kubernetes/kops/pull/18519
• azure: Scope nodes-to-API NSG rules to the NAT gateway public IP by @hakman in https://github.com/kubernetes/kops/pull/18522
• fix: use JoinHostPost to tolerate IPv6 addresses by @justinsb in https://github.com/kubernetes/kops/pull/18526
• azure: Bump azuredisk-csi-driver to v1.34.4 by @hakman in https://github.com/kubernetes/kops/pull/18527
• chore: update syntax of CLAUDE.md by @justinsb in https://github.com/kubernetes/kops/pull/18532
• azure: Bump azure-cloud-controller-manager to v1.36.2 by @hakman in https://github.com/kubernetes/kops/pull/18529
• azure: Grant control-plane VMSS Contributor instead of Owner by @hakman in https://github.com/kubernetes/kops/pull/18533
• coredns: Honor node taints in hostname topologySpreadConstraint by @hakman in https://github.com/kubernetes/kops/pull/18535
• hetzner: fix Cluster Autoscaler node group membership by @hakman in https://github.com/kubernetes/kops/pull/18538
• Expose GCP project as PROJECT env for ClusterLoader2 on GCE by @rifelpet in https://github.com/kubernetes/kops/pull/18537
• tests/e2e: skip implement-NodePort ETP=Local test on calico+Azure by @hakman in https://github.com/kubernetes/kops/pull/18540
• Update cluster-autoscaler to v1.36.0 by @hakman in https://github.com/kubernetes/kops/pull/18541
• gce: register all zonal MIGs of a multi-zone instance group with cluster-autoscaler by @hakman in https://github.com/kubernetes/kops/pull/18543
• Update Go to 1.26.5 and bump golang.org/x modules by @hakman in https://github.com/kubernetes/kops/pull/18546
• pkg/assets: keep container registry clients out of runtime binaries by @hakman in https://github.com/kubernetes/kops/pull/18554
• clusterapi: fix build by making gen.go a library package by @hakman in https://github.com/kubernetes/kops/pull/18553
• Support running custom etcd versions by setting version and image by @hakman in https://github.com/kubernetes/kops/pull/18525
• Default to etcd 3.7.0 for Kubernetes 1.37+ by @Jefftree in https://github.com/kubernetes/kops/pull/18557
• feat(api): add storageInitializationTimeout to KubeAPIServerConfig by @wkrysmann in https://github.com/kubernetes/kops/pull/18556
• dump: grant SSH access to Karpenter nodes via EC2 Instance Connect by @hakman in https://github.com/kubernetes/kops/pull/18563
• etcd-manager: upgrade to v3.0.20260707 by @hakman in https://github.com/kubernetes/kops/pull/18560
• dns-controller: always apply the addon, empty when unused by @hakman in https://github.com/kubernetes/kops/pull/18567
• Replace fi.PtrTo with new() builtin by @hakman in https://github.com/kubernetes/kops/pull/18549
• Build with disable_grpc_modules tag to shrink binaries by @hakman in https://github.com/kubernetes/kops/pull/18552
• nodeup: reduce binary size by decoupling from cloudup awsup by @hakman in https://github.com/kubernetes/kops/pull/18571
• nodeup: remove the full Kubernetes API scheme and cloud providers from the binary by @hakman in https://github.com/kubernetes/kops/pull/18572
• scalability: expose events-etcd metrics endpoint by @Jefftree in https://github.com/kubernetes/kops/pull/18568
• vfs: use path/filepath in FSPath for Windows compatibility by @hakman in https://github.com/kubernetes/kops/pull/18576
• Add support for kube-apiserver —strict-transport-security-directives flag by @hakman in https://github.com/kubernetes/kops/pull/18577
• aws: Add metrics port 9999 to pod-identity-webhook Service by @hakman in https://github.com/kubernetes/kops/pull/18579
• docs: expand Delve debugging instructions in contributing guide by @hakman in https://github.com/kubernetes/kops/pull/18580
• kops create cluster: reject explicitly empty —project flag by @hakman in https://github.com/kubernetes/kops/pull/18575
• aws: Require https scheme for pre-signed STS URLs in V2 tokens by @hakman in https://github.com/kubernetes/kops/pull/18574
• aws: scope Karpenter controller IAM permissions by @hakman in https://github.com/kubernetes/kops/pull/18582
• gce: register SSH keys under the “ubuntu” user for Ubuntu images by @hakman in https://github.com/kubernetes/kops/pull/18581
• chore(deps): bump linodego to v2 by @moshevayner in https://github.com/kubernetes/kops/pull/18584
• gce: allow TCP metrics ports in GCE firewall by @Qqkyu in https://github.com/kubernetes/kops/pull/18545
• Release 1.37.0-alpha.1 by @hakman in https://github.com/kubernetes/kops/pull/18596

New Contributors

• @carterpewpew made their first contribution in https://github.com/kubernetes/kops/pull/18460
• @cheftako made their first contribution in https://github.com/kubernetes/kops/pull/18466
• @wkrysmann made their first contribution in https://github.com/kubernetes/kops/pull/18556
• @Qqkyu made their first contribution in https://github.com/kubernetes/kops/pull/18545

Full Changelog: https://github.com/kubernetes/kops/compare/v1.36.0-beta.1…v1.37.0-alpha.1

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