[gardener/gardener-extension-provider-azure]

⚠️ Breaking Changes

[USER] VMSS-Flex based shoots are not the default deployment for non-zonal shoots. by @kon-angelo [#1025]
[USER] Disable the creation of Availability-Set-based shoots. by @kon-angelo [#1025]
[OPERATOR] The Helm charts for the application and runtime parts of the gardener-extension-admission-azure admission controller have been separated into standalone charts. These charts now assume a Garden setup with a virtual garden. Both charts must be deployed individually: the runtime chart on the Garden runtime cluster, and the application chart on the virtual garden. Additionally, the intermediate global level in the Helm values has been removed, so you may need to adjust your provided values accordingly. by @MartinWeindel [#1030]

[USER] The kube-system/csi-driver-node-disk and kube-system/csi-driver-node-file DaemonSet are no longer scaled by a VerticalPodAutoscaler as they do not really benefit from it. Removing VerticalPodAutoscaler for these components will reduce unnecessary evictions by VPA and will be a mitigation for https://issues.k8s.io/126921. by @ialidzhikov [#1046]

[USER] Introduce an annotation to migrate the availability-set shoots to VMSS-Flex shoots. by @kon-angelo [#1025]
[OPERATOR] Adjustments for additional deployment of extension and admission controller on Garden runtime cluster by gardener-operator. by @MartinWeindel [#1030]

[OPERATOR] Fix an issue where the provider-extension would delete a route table because of a location mismatch by @kon-angelo [#1068]
[OPERATOR] Fixed an issue that prevented the Infrastructure resource to be correctly restored during control plane migration, if the Infrastructure was previously migrated from a single subnet network layout to a multiple subnet network layout. by @plkokanov [#907]
[OPERATOR] Validate that all images in cloudProfile are valid images in the cloudProfileConfig by @hebelsan [#1020]
[USER] Shoots with NodeLocalDNS enabled will use UDP instead of TCP for upstream DNS queries by default to avoid performance issues on Azure. by @domdom82 [#1032]
[USER] Update CSI images by @AndreasBurger [#1063]
[DEPENDENCY] Update gardener to v1.110.0 by @hebelsan [#1044]

[DEVELOPER] The gardener/machine-controller-manager dependency has been updated to v0.55.1. Release Notes by @thiyyakat [gardener/machine-controller-manager-provider-azure#169]
[DEVELOPER] Added gosec for Static Application Security Testing (SAST). by @thiyyakat [gardener/machine-controller-manager-provider-azure#169]
[DEVELOPER] Updated go lang version to 1.23 by @thiyyakat [gardener/machine-controller-manager-provider-azure#169]
[USER] It is now possible to use a workload identity token instead of a client secret when authenticating to Azure. The path to the file containing the federated token can be configured via the "workloadIdentityTokenFile" field in the secret config. by @dimityrmirchev [gardener/machine-controller-manager-provider-azure#167]

admission-azure-application: europe-docker.pkg.dev/gardener-project/releases/charts/gardener/extensions/admission-azure-application:v1.50.0
admission-azure-runtime: europe-docker.pkg.dev/gardener-project/releases/charts/gardener/extensions/admission-azure-runtime:v1.50.0
provider-azure: europe-docker.pkg.dev/gardener-project/releases/charts/gardener/extensions/provider-azure:v1.50.0

gardener-extension-admission-azure: europe-docker.pkg.dev/gardener-project/releases/gardener/extensions/admission-azure:v1.50.0
gardener-extension-provider-azure: europe-docker.pkg.dev/gardener-project/releases/gardener/extensions/provider-azure:v1.50.0