Release Flatcar Container Linux Alpha 3760.0.0, Beta 3745.1.0, Stable 3602.2.1, LTS-2023 3510.3.1, LTS-2022 3033.3.18

[sayanchowdhury]

The release of the following Flatcar Container Linux version is planning 19th October 2023

• Alpha 3760.0.0
• Beta 3745.1.0
• Stable 3602.2.1
• LTS-2023 3510.3.1
• LTS-2022 3033.3.18

1. Preparation

Owner:

• A. Go/No-Go hackmd doc created from HackMD template for test tracking and release notes: (update the link here)
• B. All planned changes are merged & blocker bugs are fixed, last nightly reviewed for problems.
• C. Check that the kernel PR are merged for the channel(s) to be released.

2. Build

Owner: @sayanchowdhury / @tormath1

• A. Branched off the main branch (only for new major).
• B. Tagged all the build branches.
• C. Started the Jenkins builds, post the links into this issue as comment.

3. Release

i. The Go/No-Go Meeting

Owner: @sayanchowdhury / @tormath1

• A. Test status captured in the HackMD document.
• B. All tests are Green.
• C. Release notes / announcements added to Go/No Go doc from container/image_changes job by selecting Timestamps: None.
• D. QA: Checked the diff for image file list, packages, and image size in the container/image_changes job output.
• E. Conduct Matrix Go/No Go meeting (inc. release notes review).

ii. Artifacts goes public

Owner: @tormath1

• A. Created the Release Notes on the scripts repo for the respective tags on GitHub as GitHub Releases.
• B. Ran the container/release Release job.
• C. Images uploaded with copy-to-origin.sh.
• D. Symlink to "current" updated with set-symlink.sh.
• E. Website updated with ./update-flatcar-versions.sh and PR merged. (data: Add new releases flatcar-website#281)

iii. Payload

Owner: @tormath1

• A. Update payload signed/uploaded.
• B. Release package published in Nebraska (Prerequisite: 3.ii.E should marked done).

iv. Cloud Marketplace & Cluster API

Owner:

• A. Azure

  • Offers updated and started publishing.
  • Sent the offers to publish to Live.

• B. GCP

  • Offer deployment package uploaded to Google Bucket & submit for verification.
  • Offer Publish

• C. Cluster API for new Stable

  • Azure: Manually run ./azure-sig.sh to create New Shared Community Gallery Images
    [ ] OpenStack: documentation

4. Announcements

Owner: @tormath1

• A. Sent announcement to Mailing Lists
• B. Sent Tweet out to Twitter, and Toot out to Mastodon
• C. Brief version announcement in slack (k8s slack #flatcar) and the Flatcar Matrix channel

[sayanchowdhury]

Go/No Meeting it was decided to put the release on hold. This is because there is a issue identified during testing with Stable/LTS-2023 kernel and Cilium which is expected to be fixed in the next Kernel release.

The plan as of now is the wait till next week for the new kernel and then start new builds for the affected channels.

[tormath1]

Builds:

• alpha: http://jenkins.infra.kinvolk.io:8080/job/container/job/sdk/1136/cldsv/
• beta: http://jenkins.infra.kinvolk.io:8080/job/container/job/packages_all_arches/2751/cldsv/
• stable: http://jenkins.infra.kinvolk.io:8080/job/container/job/packages_all_arches/2792/cldsv/
• LTS 2023: http://jenkins.infra.kinvolk.io:8080/job/container/job/packages_all_arches/2793/cldsv/
• LTS 2022: http://jenkins.infra.kinvolk.io:8080/job/container/job/packages_all_arches/2753/cldsv/