[gardener-extension-provider-azure]

⚠️ Breaking Changes

[OPERATOR] This version of provider-azure requires Gardener v1.50.0. (gardener/gardener-extension-provider-azure#523, @ialidzhikov)
[OPERATOR] This version of provider-azure requires Gardener v1.50+. (gardener/gardener-extension-provider-azure#533, @kris94)

[USER] Add bastion support for multi-subnet deployments (gardener/gardener-extension-provider-azure#518, @kon-angelo)

[USER] An issue causing Shoot creation to fail for K8s >= 1.23 clusters with spec.kubenetes.allowPrivilegedContainers=false is now fixed. (gardener/gardener-extension-provider-azure#521, @ialidzhikov)
[USER] The following images are updated: (gardener/gardener-extension-provider-azure#522, @ialidzhikov)
- mcr.microsoft.com/oss/kubernetes/azure-cloud-controller-manager: v1.23.2 -> v1.23.13
- mcr.microsoft.com/oss/kubernetes/azure-cloud-node-manager: v1.23.2 -> v1.23.13
[USER] An issue preventing azure CCM to create routes for K8s < 1.21 Shoot clusters is now fixed. (gardener/gardener-extension-provider-azure#544, @kon-angelo)
[OPERATOR] provider-azure now mutates the cluster-autoscaler Deployment by implementing the EnsureClusterAutoscalerDeployment function. This is required in the context of kubernetes/autoscaler#4517 - cluster-autoscaler supports --feature-gates flag and provider extensions have to mutate the cluster-autoscaler Deployment to add the CSI related feature gates to it. (gardener/gardener-extension-provider-azure#523, @ialidzhikov)

[USER] A detailed list of Azure provider/service permissions/actions that are required to manage Azure Shoot clusters is now available here. (gardener/gardener-extension-provider-azure#536, @dkistner)

[USER] Changing the default StorageClass for Azure shoots from Standard_LRS(HDD) to StandardSSD_LRS(SSD) (gardener/gardener-extension-provider-azure#535, @StenlyTU)
[OPERATOR] Updated azurefile-csi to v1.19.0 (gardener/gardener-extension-provider-azure#520, @kon-angelo)
[OPERATOR] The extension now uses distroless instead of alpine as a base image. (gardener/gardener-extension-provider-azure#526, @dimityrmirchev)
[OPERATOR] add support for Azure community gallery images for workers (gardener/gardener-extension-provider-azure#527, @MrBatschner)
[OPERATOR] The following images are updated: (gardener/gardener-extension-provider-azure#531, @kon-angelo)
- mcr.microsoft.com/oss/kubernetes/azure-cloud-controller-manager: v1.23.13 -> v1.23.14 (for kubernetes 1.23)
- mcr.microsoft.com/oss/kubernetes/azure-cloud-node-manager: v1.23.13 -> v1.23.14 (for kubernetes 1.23)
- mcr.microsoft.com/oss/kubernetes/azure-cloud-controller-manager: v1.24.0 -> v1.24.2 (for kubernetes 1.24)
- mcr.microsoft.com/oss/kubernetes/azure-cloud-node-manager: v1.24.0 -> v1.24.2 (for kubernetes 1.24)
[OPERATOR] The following dependency is updated: (gardener/gardener-extension-provider-azure#537, @acumino)
- github.com/gardener/gardener: v1.48.0 -> v1.50.1
[OPERATOR] Update Go version to v1.18 (gardener/gardener-extension-provider-azure#538, @kon-angelo)
[OPERATOR] Disable cloud-controller-manager node CIDR allocation. (gardener/gardener-extension-provider-azure#539, @kon-angelo)

[OPERATOR] The default leader election resource lock of machine-controller-manager has been changed from endpointsleases to leases. (gardener/machine-controller-manager#711, @acumino)
- Please make sure, that you had at least [email protected] running before upgrading to v0.46.0, so that it has successfully acquired leadership with the hybrid resource lock (endpointsleases) at least once.

[USER] Rollout freeze won't happen due to Unknown machines now. (gardener/machine-controller-manager#733, @himanshu-kun)

[OPERATOR] Published docker images for Machine-Controller-Manager are now multi-arch ready. They support linux/amd64 and linux/arm64. (gardener/machine-controller-manager#732, @timuthy)
[OPERATOR] The machine-controller-manager container now uses distroless instead of alpine as a base image. (gardener/machine-controller-manager#734, @dimityrmirchev)

[OPERATOR] machine-controller-manager-provider-azure now uses distroless instead of alpine as a base image. (gardener/machine-controller-manager-provider-azure#67, @ialidzhikov)
[DEVELOPER] probeResources() now doesn't try to delete orphan resources but only lists them. (gardener/machine-controller-manager-provider-azure#65, @Mkmittal)
- The beforeSuite for IT test now calls for cleanup of orphan resources separately.
- The Integration Test, which looks for orphan resources, now doesn't try to delete the orphan resources and just waits for them to be done automatically.

[OPERATOR] Terraform google provider is updated to v4.19.0 (gardener/terraformer#119, @bd3lage)