TCE Release v0.7.0-rc.3

We are delighted to present version v0.7.0-rc.3 of Tanzu Community Edition.

A big thank you to everyone who contributed to the release!

Major Changes

Native Windows CLI Support

TCE now ships a Windows tarball containing signed binaries for the Tanzu CLI and all associated plugins.
#1311

TCE Package Repository is validated with newest Carvel APIs

TCE has updated it's implementation using kapp-controller 0.20+ and the newest Carvel APIs.
#1116

Sonobuoy support via tanzu conformance subcommand

This introduces a conformance command into Tanzu CLI, powered by sonobuoy.
#824

Experimental Azure Support

As of this release, there is experimental support for Azure cloud.

Deprecation & Removal Notices

Since we are currently shipping versions pre-v1.0.0, we aren't maintaining backwards compatibility with prior releases. This is a notice that prior releases may not function as intented.

Upgrading

Download the latest release, and run the install.sh / install.bat script within the package.

Full Changelog From Latest Minor Release

• Remove troubleshooting doc entry issue template (#1275, @joshrosso)

• Use golang cache in GitHub actions workflows (#1057, @jpmcb)

• Standalone cluster now stores the boostrap cluster objects under the ~/.config/tanzu config directory (#1262, @jpmcb)

• Update standalone dependency (#1281, @joshrosso)

• Add GH action to add labels to PRs (#878, @carlisia)

• Add RelEng Team Ownership to Test Directory (#1130, @dvonthenen)

• Add apiserver recording rules for prometheus (#1063, @LukeWinikates)

• Add architecture documentation (#1204, @joshrosso)

• Add cloud provider vsphere versions v1.19.1 and v1.20.0 (#1083, @nicolehanjing)

• Add controller-gen download when doing unstable [trivial] (#1115, @dvonthenen)

• Add github prow bot (#1046, @jpmcb)

• Add kapp-controller 0.22.0 (#1216, @shivaani0505)

• Add kapp-controller rebase rules for Antrea APIService resource (#964, @nicolehanjing)

• Add metadata to Package CR's of Observability packages. (#1077, @akodali18)

• Add package metadata for cert-manager (#1104, @shyaamsn)

• Add package templates Antrea 0.13.3 (#953, @andrewsykim)

• Add signoff to commit message based on new requirements (#1282, @dvonthenen)

• Add tanzu-conformance plugin, exposing the Sonobuoy client-side commands. (#929, @nrb)

• Azure - missing doc (#1238, @kcoriordan)

• Azure doc (#1070, @kcoriordan)

• Azure getting started (#1233, @kcoriordan)

• Build and package everything related to TCE using a core main branch (#918, @dvonthenen)

• Bump cloud provider vsphere to v1.21.0 (#998, @nicolehanjing)

• Bump github prow bot to v1.1.3 (#1074, @jpmcb)

• Bump up harbor 2.2.3 (#1055, @heww)

• Change global namespace for kapp controller (#1098, @shivaani0505)

• Check for TKG proxy env vars. Set to empty if non present (#1228, @jpmcb)

• Complete Port of Old tce-v1.3.0 to Tanzu Framework (#1141, @dvonthenen)

• Conformance plugin included in release tarball (#1280, @jpmcb)

• Continue release even on stderr (#1215, @dvonthenen)

• Contour fix job (#1184, @jorgemoralespou)

• Contour package: add more metadata (#1059, @skriss)

• Disable ingress by default; document Contour as Ingress dependency. (#957, @LukeWinikates)

• Doc - Multiple issues (#1231, @kcoriordan)

• Doc: Multiple doc issues (#1232, @kcoriordan)

• Docs - mgmt delete-scale-examine - 945 (#1091, @kcoriordan)

• Docs - workload clusters (#1086, @kcoriordan)

• Enable opt-in K8s logging exclusion for fluent-bit (#1025, @LukeWinikates)

• Error on install as root (#1178, @dvonthenen)

• External-dns: update maintainers (#1082, @rosenhouse)

• Fix Prom package readme (#1016, @dvonthenen)

• Fix build staging (#1110, @dvonthenen)

• Fix clone/checkout on specific commit (#1177, @dvonthenen)

• Fix github action dev build (part 3) (#1112, @dvonthenen)

• Fix incorrectly attempting get go mod deps for README [trivial] (#1221, @dvonthenen)

• Fix missing go sum entries and fix go linting errors (#960, @jpmcb)

• Fix path used for version/tag automation (#1179, @dvonthenen)

• Fix prom package lint on README (#902, @dvonthenen)

• Fix release commit with merge flag [trivial] (#1210, @dvonthenen)

• Fix release process after separate go.mods (#1121, @dvonthenen)

• Fix releasedAt in Package CR to be metav1.time format (#1119, @shyaamsn)

• Fix tanzu framework replace (#1111, @dvonthenen)

• Fix uninstall script placement and remove test plugin (#1271, @dvonthenen)

• Include missing metadata. (#1259, @akodali18)

• Kubernetes Services of type ExternalName will now not be processed by Contour. (#1160, [@sunjayBhati...

TCE Release v0.7.0-rc.2

We are delighted to present version v0.7.0-rc.2 of Tanzu Community Edition.

A big thank you to everyone who contributed to the release!

Major Changes

Native Windows CLI Support

TCE now ships a Windows tarball containing signed binaries for the Tanzu CLI and all associated plugins.
#1311

TCE Package Repository is validated with newest Carvel APIs

TCE has updated it's implementation using kapp-controller 0.20+ and the newest Carvel APIs.
#1116

Sonobuoy support via tanzu conformance subcommand

This introduces a conformance command into Tanzu CLI, powered by sonobuoy.
#824

Experimental Azure Support

As of this release, there is experimental support for Azure cloud.

Deprecation & Removal Notices

Since we are currently shipping versions pre-v1.0.0, we aren't maintaining backwards compatibility with prior releases. This is a notice that prior releases may not function as intented.

Upgrading

Download the latest release, and run the install.sh / install.bat script within the package.

Full Changelog From Latest Minor Release

• Use golang cache in GitHub actions workflows (#1057, @jpmcb)

• Standalone cluster now stores the boostrap cluster objects under the ~/.config/tanzu config directory (#1262, @jpmcb)

• Add GH action to add labels to PRs (#878, @carlisia)

• Add RelEng Team Ownership to Test Directory (#1130, @dvonthenen)

• Add apiserver recording rules for prometheus (#1063, @LukeWinikates)

• Add architecture documentation (#1204, @joshrosso)

• Add cloud provider vsphere versions v1.19.1 and v1.20.0 (#1083, @nicolehanjing)

• Add controller-gen download when doing unstable [trivial] (#1115, @dvonthenen)

• Add github prow bot (#1046, @jpmcb)

• Add kapp-controller 0.22.0 (#1216, @shivaani0505)

• Add kapp-controller rebase rules for Antrea APIService resource (#964, @nicolehanjing)

• Add metadata to Package CR's of Observability packages. (#1077, @akodali18)

• Add package metadata for cert-manager (#1104, @shyaamsn)

• Add package templates Antrea 0.13.3 (#953, @andrewsykim)

• Azure - missing doc (#1238, @kcoriordan)

• Azure doc (#1070, @kcoriordan)

• Azure getting started (#1233, @kcoriordan)

• Build and package everything related to TCE using a core main branch (#918, @dvonthenen)

• Bump cloud provider vsphere to v1.21.0 (#998, @nicolehanjing)

• Bump github prow bot to v1.1.3 (#1074, @jpmcb)

• Bump up harbor 2.2.3 (#1055, @heww)

• Change global namespace for kapp controller (#1098, @shivaani0505)

• Check for TKG proxy env vars. Set to empty if non present (#1228, @jpmcb)

• Complete Port of Old tce-v1.3.0 to Tanzu Framework (#1141, @dvonthenen)

• Continue release even on stderr (#1215, @dvonthenen)

• Contour fix job (#1184, @jorgemoralespou)

• Contour package: add more metadata (#1059, @skriss)

• Disable ingress by default; document Contour as Ingress dependency. (#957, @LukeWinikates)

• Doc - Multiple issues (#1231, @kcoriordan)

• Doc: Multiple doc issues (#1232, @kcoriordan)

• Docs - mgmt delete-scale-examine - 945 (#1091, @kcoriordan)

• Docs - workload clusters (#1086, @kcoriordan)

• Enable opt-in K8s logging exclusion for fluent-bit (#1025, @LukeWinikates)

• Error on install as root (#1178, @dvonthenen)

• External-dns: update maintainers (#1082, @rosenhouse)

• Fix Prom package readme (#1016, @dvonthenen)

• Fix build staging (#1110, @dvonthenen)

• Fix clone/checkout on specific commit (#1177, @dvonthenen)

• Fix github action dev build (part 3) (#1112, @dvonthenen)

• Fix incorrectly attempting get go mod deps for README [trivial] (#1221, @dvonthenen)

• Fix missing go sum entries and fix go linting errors (#960, @jpmcb)

• Fix path used for version/tag automation (#1179, @dvonthenen)

• Fix prom package lint on README (#902, @dvonthenen)

• Fix release commit with merge flag [trivial] (#1210, @dvonthenen)

• Fix release process after separate go.mods (#1121, @dvonthenen)

• Fix releasedAt in Package CR to be metav1.time format (#1119, @shyaamsn)

• Fix tanzu framework replace (#1111, @dvonthenen)

• Include missing metadata. (#1259, @akodali18)

• Kubernetes Services of type ExternalName will now not be processed by Contour. (#1160, @sunjayBhatia)

• Merge Docs back into main (#1004, @kcoriordan)

• Missing ytt missing_ok annotation (#939, @jorgemoralespou)

• Native Windows Support (#1095, @dvonthenen)

• Provide uninstall script in tarball (#1244, @dvonthenen)

• Refactor and fix release process commit/tagging (#1207, @dvonthenen)

• Remove CPI imageinfo related info (#1094, @nicolehanjing)

• Remove incomplete imple...

TCE Release v0.7.0-rc.1

We are delighted to present version v0.7.0-rc.1 of Tanzu Community Edition.

A big thank you to everyone who contributed to the release!

Major Changes

Native Windows CLI Support

TCE now ships a Windows tarball containing signed binaries for the Tanzu CLI and all associated plugins.
#1311

TCE Package Repository is validated with newest Carvel APIs

TCE has updated it's implementation using kapp-controller 0.20+ and the newest Carvel APIs.
#1116

Sonobuoy support via tanzu conformance subcommand

This introduces a conformance command into Tanzu CLI, powered by sonobuoy.
#824

Deprecation & Removal Notices

Since we are currently shipping versions pre-v1.0.0, we aren't maintaining backwards compatibility with prior releases. This is a notice that prior releases may not function as intented.

Upgrading

Download the latest release, and run the install.sh / install.bat script within the package.

Full Changelog From Latest Minor Release

• Use golang cache in GitHub actions workflows (#1057, @jpmcb)

• Add GH action to add labels to PRs (#878, @carlisia)

• Add RelEng Team Ownership to Test Directory (#1130, @dvonthenen)

• Add apiserver recording rules for prometheus (#1063, @LukeWinikates)

• Add architecture documentation (#1204, @joshrosso)

• Add cloud provider vsphere versions v1.19.1 and v1.20.0 (#1083, @nicolehanjing)

• Add controller-gen download when doing unstable [trivial] (#1115, @dvonthenen)

• Add github prow bot (#1046, @jpmcb)

• Add kapp-controller rebase rules for Antrea APIService resource (#964, @nicolehanjing)

• Add metadata to Package CR's of Observability packages. (#1077, @akodali18)

• Add package metadata for cert-manager (#1104, @shyaamsn)

• Add package templates Antrea 0.13.3 (#953, @andrewsykim)

• Azure doc (#1070, @kcoriordan)

• Azure getting started (#1233, @kcoriordan)

• Build and package everything related to TCE using a core main branch (#918, @dvonthenen)

• Bump cloud provider vsphere to v1.21.0 (#998, @nicolehanjing)

• Bump github prow bot to v1.1.3 (#1074, @jpmcb)

• Bump up harbor 2.2.3 (#1055, @heww)

• Change global namespace for kapp controller (#1098, @shivaani0505)

• Check for TKG proxy env vars. Set to empty if non present (#1228, @jpmcb)

• Complete Port of Old tce-v1.3.0 to Tanzu Framework (#1141, @dvonthenen)

• Continue release even on stderr (#1215, @dvonthenen)

• Contour fix job (#1184, @jorgemoralespou)

• Contour package: add more metadata (#1059, @skriss)

• Disable ingress by default; document Contour as Ingress dependency. (#957, @LukeWinikates)

• Doc - Multiple issues (#1231, @kcoriordan)

• Doc: Multiple doc issues (#1232, @kcoriordan)

• Docs - mgmt delete-scale-examine - 945 (#1091, @kcoriordan)

• Docs - workload clusters (#1086, @kcoriordan)

• Enable opt-in K8s logging exclusion for fluent-bit (#1025, @LukeWinikates)

• Error on install as root (#1178, @dvonthenen)

• External-dns: update maintainers (#1082, @rosenhouse)

• Fix Prom package readme (#1016, @dvonthenen)

• Fix build staging (#1110, @dvonthenen)

• Fix clone/checkout on specific commit (#1177, @dvonthenen)

• Fix github action dev build (part 3) (#1112, @dvonthenen)

• Fix incorrectly attempting get go mod deps for README [trivial] (#1221, @dvonthenen)

• Fix missing go sum entries and fix go linting errors (#960, @jpmcb)

• Fix path used for version/tag automation (#1179, @dvonthenen)

• Fix prom package lint on README (#902, @dvonthenen)

• Fix release commit with merge flag [trivial] (#1210, @dvonthenen)

• Fix release process after separate go.mods (#1121, @dvonthenen)

• Fix releasedAt in Package CR to be metav1.time format (#1119, @shyaamsn)

• Fix tanzu framework replace (#1111, @dvonthenen)

• Kubernetes Services of type ExternalName will now not be processed by Contour. (#1160, @sunjayBhatia)

• Merge Docs back into main (#1004, @kcoriordan)

• Missing ytt missing_ok annotation (#939, @jorgemoralespou)

• Native Windows Support (#1095, @dvonthenen)

• Refactor and fix release process commit/tagging (#1207, @dvonthenen)

• Remove CPI imageinfo related info (#1094, @nicolehanjing)

• Remove incomplete implementation of grafana ldap configuration hooks (#1048, @LukeWinikates)

• Remove updateStrategy config value from fluent-bit package (#932, @LukeWinikates)

• Revert "Merge pull request #1017 from vmware-tanzu/use-checkout-v2" (#1020, @jpmcb)

• Revert pull_request_target to pull_request (#1019, @jpmcb)

• Revert using a PR to bump release version (#1220, @dvonthenen)

• Script to easily download a TCE release from Github ([#899](...

TCE Release v0.6.0

We are delighted to present version v0.6.0 of Tanzu Community Edition.

A big thank you to everyone who contributed to the release!

Major Changes

Implements new packaging format

This release updated all packages to the latest format as required by the Carvel APIs & kapp-controller.

Deprecation & Removal Notices

Since we are currently shipping versions pre-v1.0.0, we aren't maintaining backward compatibility with prior releases. This is a notice that prior releases may not function as intended.

Upgrading

Download the latest release, and run the install.sh / install.bat script within the package.

Full Changelog From Latest Minor Release

• Add GH action to add labels to PRs (#878, @carlisia)
• Add configs to readme. (#875, @akodali18)
• Add standardized configuration options for fluent-bit addon (#569, @LukeWinikates)
• Adds support for IPv6 networks with Calico CNI on a vSphere provider (#737, @adobley)
• Akoo template bug fix (#732, @iXinqi)
• Bump versions(alertmanager) and Add configurations(prometheus, grafana) and auto certmanager certs (#750, @akodali18)
• Bumps go mod for cluster-api force push (#751, @jpmcb)
• Doc: Troubleshooting doc template (#743, @kcoriordan)
• Doc: Update pkg readmes (#738, @kcoriordan)
• Download repo dependencies when missing (#874, @dvonthenen)
• Enable the ability to create a release from a release branch (#829, @dvonthenen)
• External-dns addon is updated to v0.8.0 (#757, @flawedmatrix)
• External-dns package will now error on missing required configuration (#833, @adobley)
• Fix CI on main - md linting issues with licensing comments in go files (#811, @jpmcb)
• Fix akodeploymentconfig templates (#740, @iXinqi)
• Fix alertmanager config as secret instead of ConfigMap. Modify defaults for Grafana (#835, @akodali18)
• Fix broken build with missing cluster-api dependencies (#768, @jpmcb)
• Fix multi-branch (ie release branch) tag support (#901, @dvonthenen)
• Fix multi-branch support (#866, @dvonthenen)
• Fix prom package lint on README (#902, @dvonthenen)
• Fix rc/beta/alpha tags (#860, @dvonthenen)
• Pinniped package provides authentication/identity services (#731, @benjaminapetersen)
• Provide the correct branding for management cluster plugin (#858, @dvonthenen)
• Remove old docs to avoid confusion (#576, @stmcginnis)
• Run build-all in check-build github action (#792, @jpmcb)
• Script to easily download a TCE release from Github (#899, @jpmcb)
• Shortening description for new troubleshooting template (#894, @kcoriordan)
• Standalone-cluster create using kickstart UI detects clusterconfig file (#698, @jpmcb)
• Update kapp controller to available sha on develop branch (#789, @jpmcb)
• Update kapp-controller to v0.20.0-rc.1 (#783, @shyaamsn)
• Update package versions for 0.5.0 (#538, @seemiller)
• [AVI] Fix three bugs in ako-operator templates (#798, @iXinqi)

TCE Release v0.6.0-rc.1

Changelog:

• Adds support for IPv6 networks with Calico CNI on a vSphere provider (#737, @adobley)
• Akoo template bug fix (#732, @iXinqi)
• Bump versions(alertmanager) and Add configurations(prometheus, grafana) and auto certmanager certs (#750, @akodali18)
• Bumps go mod for cluster-api force push (#751, @jpmcb)
• Doc: Troubleshooting doc template (#743, @kcoriordan)
• Doc: Update pkg readmes (#738, @kcoriordan)
• Enable the ability to create a release from a release branch (#829, @dvonthenen)
• External-dns addon is updated to v0.8.0 (#757, @flawedmatrix)
• Fix CI on main - md linting issues with licensing comments in go files (#811, @jpmcb)
• Fix akodeploymentconfig templates (#740, @iXinqi)
• Fix alertmanager config as secret instead of ConfigMap. Modify defaults for Grafana (#835, @akodali18)
• Fix broken build with missing cluster-api dependencies (#768, @jpmcb)
• Fix multi-branch support (#866, @dvonthenen)
• Fix rc/beta/alpha tags (#860, @dvonthenen)
• Pinniped package provides authentication/identity services (#731, @benjaminapetersen)
• Provide the correct branding for management cluster plugin (#858, @dvonthenen)
• Run build-all in check-build github action (#792, @jpmcb)
• Standalone-cluster create using kickstart UI detects clusterconfig file (#698, @jpmcb)
• Update kapp controller to available sha on develop branch (#789, @jpmcb)
• Update kapp-controller to v0.20.0-rc.1 (#783, @shyaamsn)
• Update package versions for 0.5.0 (#538, @seemiller)
• [AVI] Fix three bugs in ako-operator templates (#798, @iXinqi)

TCE Release v0.5.0

Changelog:

• Standalone-cluster create using kickstart UI detects clusterconfig file #698

TCE Release v0.5.0-rc.3

Changelog:

• Fix tkg-cli references throughout the build process. Dependencies were globally being set for all projects #678 #673

Release v0.5.0-rc.2

Changelog since v0.5.0-rc.1:

• [NEW] Adds Standalone UI #632

TCE Release v0.5.0-rc.1

Changelog since v0.4.0:

• [NEW] Delete standalone clusters: #565 #614
• [ENHANCEMENTS] Package enhancements: #496 #501 #514 #534 #567 #572 #593 #596 #601
• [NEW] Documentation for standalone AWS: #491
• [NEW] Documentation for standalone vSphere: #493
• [ENHANCEMENTS] Misc documentation enhancements: #543 #559
• [ENHANCEMENTS] Misc code enhancements: #515
• [FIXES] Various bug fixes: #490 #550 #570 #581 #591
• [NEW] Additions to release engineering efforts: #583 #590

TCE Release v0.4.0

Tanzu Community Edition v0.4.0 released!

• Download: https://via.vmw.com/tce-release
• Release Video: https://via.vmw.com/tce-rel-040
• Getting Started: https://via.vmw.com/tce-gs
  • pw: ExpectedBirthdayIndirectBinary

Changelog:

• Creation of standalone clusters (non-managed workload clusters) [experimental]
• Improvements to bootstrapping process to create clusters faster
• TCE clusters now ship, by default, with kapp-controller capable of handling packages
• Updates to certmanager manifests #481
• Adds External DNS package #474
• Move packages to stable tag #495
• Updates to the getting started guide #497