Tasks to bump to Kubernetes v1.34

[sbueringer]

This issue is tracking the tasks that should be implemented after the Kubernetes minor release has been released.

Tasks

Note: If feasible we usually cherry-pick the changes back to the latest release series.

Supporting managing and running on the new Kubernetes version

This section contains tasks to update our book, e2e testing and CI to use and test the new Kubernetes version
as well as changes to Cluster API that we might have to make to support the new Kubernetes version. All of these
changes should be cherry-picked to all release series that will support the new Kubernetes version.

• Continuously modify CAPD to use early versions of the upcoming Kubernetes release (betas and rcs):

  • Bump the Kubernetes version in test/* except for test/infrastructure/kind/*.
  • Prior art: ✨ Bump Kubernetes version used for testing to v1.31.0-beta.0 #10922
  • PRs:
    • ✨ Bump Kubernetes version used for testing to v1.34.0-beta.0 #12516
    • ✨ Bump Kubernetes version used for testing to v1.34.0-rc.1 #12623
    • ✨ Bump Kubernetes version used for testing to v1.34.0-rc.2 #12658

• Modify CAPD to use the new Kubernetes release after it is GA:

  • Bump the Kubernetes version in test/* except for test/infrastructure/kind/*.
  • Prior art: ✨ Bump Kubernetes in tests to v1.31.0 and claim support for v1.31 #11030
  • PR: ✨ Bump Kubernetes in tests to v1.34.0 and claim support for v1.34 #12699

• Start testing with next Kubernetes release on main by bumping KUBERNETES_VERSION_LATEST_CI in docker.yaml

  • PR: 🌱 Start testing against Kubernetes v1.35 #12709

• Ensure the jobs are adjusted to provide test coverage according to our support policy:

  • At the .versions section in the cluster-api-prowjob-gen.yaml file in test-infra:

    • Add a new entry for the new Kubernetes version
    • Adjust the released Kubernetes's version entry to refer stable-1.<minor> instead of ci/latest-1.<minor>
    • Check and update the versions for the keys etcd and coreDNS if necessary:
      • For etcd, see the DefaultEtcdVersion kubeadm constant: e.g. for v1.28.0
      • For coredns, see the CoreDNSVersion kubeadm constant:e.g. for v1.28.0

  • For the .branches.main section in the cluster-api-prowjob-gen.yaml file in test-infra:

    • For the .upgrades section:
      • Drop the oldest upgrade
      • Add a new upgrade entry from the previous to the new Kubernetes version
    • Bump the version set at .kubernetesVersionManagement to the new minimum supported management cluster version (This is the image version available as kind image).
    • Bump the version set at .kubebuilderEnvtestKubernetesVersion to the new minimum supported management cluster version.

  • Run make generate-test-infra-prowjobs to generate the resulting prowjob configuration:

    TEST_INFRA_DIR=../../k8s.io/test-infra make generate-test-infra-prowjobs

  • Prior art: CAPI: adjust jobs due to v1.31 GA kubernetes/test-infra#33294

  • PR: Bump Cluster API jobs for Kubernetes v1.34/v1.35 kubernetes/test-infra#35403

• Update book:

  • Update supported versions in versions.md
  • Prior art: ✨ Bump Kubernetes in tests to v1.31.0 and claim support for v1.31 #11030
  • PR: ✨ Bump Kubernetes in tests to v1.34.0 and claim support for v1.34 #12699

• Issues specific to the Kubernetes minor release:

  • Sometimes there are adjustments that we have to make in Cluster API to be able to support
    a new Kubernetes minor version. Please add these issues here when they are identified.
  • kubeadm v1beta4 API:
    • Allow users to set CertificateValidityPeriod #12289

Bump quickstart and kind image references in CAPD

Prerequisites:

• The target Kubernetes version is GA

• There is a new kind version with/or a new set of kind images for the target Kubernetes version

• Bump quickstart and kind image references in CAPD:

  • Bump the Kubernetes version in:
    • docs/*
    • Tiltfile
  • Bump kind image references in CAPD (and also kind if necessary, including the latest images for this kind release)
    • Add new images in the kind mapper.go.
      • See the kind releases page for the list of released images.
    • Set new default image for the test framework
    • If code changes are required for CAPD to incorporate the new Kind version, update kind latestMode
  • Verify the quickstart manually
  • Prior art: 🌱 Bump kind to v0.23.0 #10610
  • PR: 🌱 Bump to kind v0.30.0 #12701

• Cherry-pick above PR to the latest release branch.

Using new Kubernetes dependencies

This section contains tasks to update Cluster API to use the latest Kubernetes Go dependencies and related topics
like using the right Go version and build images. These changes are only made on the main branch. We don't
need them in older releases as they are not necessary to manage workload clusters of the new Kubernetes version or
run the Cluster API controllers on the new Kubernetes version.

• Ensure there is a new controller-runtime minor release which uses the new Kubernetes Go dependencies.
• Update our ProwJobs for the main branch to use the kubekins-e2e with the correct Kubernetes version via cluster-api-prowjob-gen.yaml and by running make generate-test-infra-prowjobs.
  • It is recommended to have one PR for presubmit and one for periodic jobs to reduce the risk of breaking the periodic jobs.
  • Prior art: cluster-api: Bump kubekins image for main to 1.30 to use go 1.22 kubernetes/test-infra#32380
  • PR: Bump Cluster API main jobs to use kubekins v1.34.0 kubernetes/test-infra#35404
• Bump the Go version in Cluster API: (if Kubernetes is using a new Go minor version)
  • Search for the currently used Go version across the repository and update it
  • We have to at least modify it in: hack/ensure-go.sh, .golangci.yml, cloudbuild*.yaml, go.mod, Makefile, netlify.toml, Tiltfile
  • Prior art: 🌱 Bump Go to v1.22.2 #10452
• Bumps in Cluster API repo:
  • controller-runtime & controller-tools in go.mod files
    • Revert: 🌱 Add DropEmptyStruct to ssa patch helper #12442 (unit tests should still be green afterwards)
  • setup-envtest via SETUP_ENVTEST_VER in Makefile
  • controller-gen via CONTROLLER_GEN_VER in Makefile
  • conversion-gen via CONVERSION_GEN_VER in Makefile
    • Drop workaround for conversion-gen generates code that leads to panics when fields are accessed after conversion kubernetes/kubernetes#132883
  • Prior art: ✨ Bump to controller-runtime v0.19 & controller-tools v0.16 #10803
  • PR: ⚠️ Bump to controller-runtime v0.22 & controller-tools v0.19 #12634
• Bump the Kubernetes version used in integration tests via KUBEBUILDER_ENVTEST_KUBERNETES_VERSION in Makefile
  • Note: This PR should be cherry-picked as well. It is part of this section as it depends on kubebuilder/controller-runtime releases and is not strictly necessary for Supporting managing and running on the new Kubernetes version.
  • Prior art to release envtest binaries: ✨ Release envtest v1.31.0 controller-tools#1032
  • Prior art: 🌱 Update kubebuilder envtest (1.24.2 -> 1.25.0) #7193
  • PR: 🌱 Bump to envtest v1.34.0 #12702

[sbueringer]

/kind feature
/priority important-soon
/triage accepted

[sivchari]

/assign