VPA 1.2.1 Release

[raywainman]

Needed to cherrypick #7169.

[raywainman]

E2E tests are passing with the new build:

Ran 3 of 314 Specs in 807.019 seconds
SUCCESS! -- 3 Passed | 0 Failed | 0 Pending | 311 Skipped
--- PASS: TestE2E (807.03s)
PASS
...
Ran 5 of 338 Specs in 1968.666 seconds
SUCCESS! -- 5 Passed | 0 Failed | 0 Pending | 333 Skipped
--- PASS: TestE2E (1968.67s)
PASS

[adrianmoisey]

/area vertical-pod-autoscaler

[raywainman]

git checkout 6569b7734cd3c86c14d102e04fb0fb979c643a88
git tag -a vertical-pod-autoscaler-1.2.1 -m "Vertical Pod Autoscaler release 1.2.1"
git tag -a vertical-pod-autoscaler/v1.2.1 -m "Vertical Pod Autoscaler release 1.2.1"
git push [email protected]:kubernetes/autoscaler.git vertical-pod-autoscaler-1.2.1
git push [email protected]:kubernetes/autoscaler.git vertical-pod-autoscaler/v1.2.1

[raywainman]

What's changed:

• [vpa-release-1.2] vpa-recommender: Prevent nil pointer dereference #7169 - Prevent nil pointer dereference in vpa-recommender.

vertical-pod-autoscaler-1.2.0...vertical-pod-autoscaler-1.2.1

[raywainman]

Release is here: https://github.com/kubernetes/autoscaler/releases/tag/vertical-pod-autoscaler-1.2.1

Thanks @kwiesmueller for all the reviews and help :)