Drop support for K8s 1.23 and 1.24

.chloggen/breaking_drop-kube-124-125.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+# One of 'breaking', 'deprecation', 'new_component', 'enhancement', 'bug_fix'
+change_type: breaking
+
+# The name of the component, or a single word describing the area of concern, (e.g. collector, target allocator, auto-instrumentation, opamp, github action)
+component: operator
+
+# A brief description of the change. Surround your text with quotes ("") if it needs to start with a backtick (`).
+note: Drop support for Kubernetes 1.23 and 1.24
+
+# One or more tracking issues related to the change
+issues: [4104]
+
+# (Optional) One or more lines of additional information to render under the primary note.
+# These lines will be padded with 2 spaces and then inserted directly into the document.
+# Use pipe (|) for multiline entries.
+subtext:

.github/workflows/e2e.yaml

@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ jobs:
        # All Kubernetes version in between expose the same APIs, hence the operator
        # should be compatible with them.
        kube-version:
-         - "1.23"
+         - "1.25"
          - "1.33"
        group:
          - e2e

.github/workflows/scorecard.yaml

@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ jobs:
     strategy:
       matrix:
         kube-version:
-          - "1.23"
+          - "1.25"
           - "1.33"
 
     steps:

Makefile

@@ -153,7 +153,7 @@ BUNDLE_DIR = ./bundle/$(BUNDLE_VARIANT)
 MANIFESTS_DIR = config/manifests/$(BUNDLE_VARIANT)
 BUNDLE_BUILD_GEN_FLAGS ?= $(BUNDLE_GEN_FLAGS) --output-dir . --kustomize-dir ../../$(MANIFESTS_DIR)
 
-MIN_KUBERNETES_VERSION ?= 1.23.0
+MIN_KUBERNETES_VERSION ?= 1.25.0
 MIN_OPENSHIFT_VERSION ?= 4.12
 
 ## On MacOS, use gsed instead of sed, to make sed behavior
@@ -679,7 +679,7 @@ operator-sdk: $(LOCALBIN)
 # Generate bundle manifests and metadata, then validate generated files.
 .PHONY: generate-bundle
 generate-bundle: kustomize operator-sdk manifests set-image-controller api-docs
-	sed -e 's/minKubeVersion: .*/minKubeVersion: $(MIN_KUBERNETES_VERSION)/' config/manifests/$(BUNDLE_VARIANT)/bases/opentelemetry-operator.clusterserviceversion.yaml
+	@$(SED_INPLACE) 's/minKubeVersion: .*/minKubeVersion: $(MIN_KUBERNETES_VERSION)/' config/manifests/$(BUNDLE_VARIANT)/bases/opentelemetry-operator.clusterserviceversion.yaml
 
 	$(OPERATOR_SDK) generate kustomize manifests -q --input-dir $(MANIFESTS_DIR) --output-dir $(MANIFESTS_DIR)
 	cd $(BUNDLE_DIR) && cp ../../PROJECT . && $(KUSTOMIZE) build ../../$(MANIFESTS_DIR) | $(OPERATOR_SDK) generate bundle $(BUNDLE_BUILD_GEN_FLAGS) && rm PROJECT

bundle/community/manifests/opentelemetry-operator.clusterserviceversion.yaml

@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ metadata:
     categories: Logging & Tracing,Monitoring
     certified: "false"
     containerImage: ghcr.io/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-operator/opentelemetry-operator
-    createdAt: "2025-07-02T14:25:33Z"
+    createdAt: "2025-07-05T13:19:47Z"
     description: Provides the OpenTelemetry components, including the Collector
     operators.operatorframework.io/builder: operator-sdk-v1.29.0
     operators.operatorframework.io/project_layout: go.kubebuilder.io/v3
@@ -623,7 +623,7 @@ spec:
   - email: jpkroehling@redhat.com
     name: Juraci Paixão Kröhling
   maturity: alpha
-  minKubeVersion: 1.23.0
+  minKubeVersion: 1.25.0
   provider:
     name: OpenTelemetry Community
   version: 0.129.1

bundle/openshift/manifests/opentelemetry-operator.clusterserviceversion.yaml

@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ metadata:
     categories: Logging & Tracing,Monitoring
     certified: "false"
     containerImage: ghcr.io/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-operator/opentelemetry-operator
-    createdAt: "2025-07-02T14:25:34Z"
+    createdAt: "2025-07-05T13:19:48Z"
     description: Provides the OpenTelemetry components, including the Collector
     operators.operatorframework.io/builder: operator-sdk-v1.29.0
     operators.operatorframework.io/project_layout: go.kubebuilder.io/v3
@@ -638,7 +638,7 @@ spec:
   - email: jpkroehling@redhat.com
     name: Juraci Paixão Kröhling
   maturity: alpha
-  minKubeVersion: 1.23.0
+  minKubeVersion: 1.25.0
   provider:
     name: OpenTelemetry Community
   version: 0.129.1

config/manifests/community/bases/opentelemetry-operator.clusterserviceversion.yaml

@@ -227,7 +227,7 @@ spec:
   - email: jpkroehling@redhat.com
     name: Juraci Paixão Kröhling
   maturity: alpha
-  minKubeVersion: 1.23.0
+  minKubeVersion: 1.25.0
   provider:
     name: OpenTelemetry Community
   version: 0.0.0

config/manifests/openshift/bases/opentelemetry-operator.clusterserviceversion.yaml

@@ -227,7 +227,7 @@ spec:
   - email: jpkroehling@redhat.com
     name: Juraci Paixão Kröhling
   maturity: alpha
-  minKubeVersion: 1.23.0
+  minKubeVersion: 1.25.0
   provider:
     name: OpenTelemetry Community
   version: 0.0.0