Patch release v1.8.1

[salasberryfin]

Description

This is an issue to keep track of patch release v1.8.1.

Cherry-picking

This is a list of issues/fixes that need to be cherry-picked into https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api-provider-gcp/tree/release-1.8

• Enable dual stack #1376
• fix: wrap error when nodepool update/delete fails #1364
• Fix broken book links and add section on adding new E2E tests #1358
• Improve book structure and add clusterclass examples #1353

PRs to be merged

• [release-1.8] Enable dual stack #1394
• [release-1.8] fix: wrap error when nodepool update/delete fails #1395
• [release-1.8] Cherrypick docs updates #1397
• [release-1.8] update gh permissions #1398

[salasberryfin]

/priority important-soon

[salasberryfin]

/assign

[afarbos]

If we can include the panic fix #1371 it would be nice. I am happy to add unit tests to validate the panic does not happen while we work on the integration to be up and running. let me know.

[cpanato]

tag is out and image is baking https://prow.k8s.io/view/gs/kubernetes-ci-logs/logs/post-cluster-api-provider-gcp-push-images/1880176869949575168

[cpanato]

image promotion: kubernetes/k8s.io#7689

[cpanato]

v1.8.1 is out https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api-provider-gcp/releases/tag/v1.8.1

we can close this

/close

[k8s-ci-robot]

@cpanato: Closing this issue.

In response to this:

v1.8.1 is out https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api-provider-gcp/releases/tag/v1.8.1

we can close this

/close

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