Preparation for v0.8 release

[stefanprodan]

Flux2 v0.8 release marks an important milestone ✨ Feature Parity with Flux v1 ✨

Prerequisites

Documentation

• Image automation migration guide (Image automation migration guide #806)
• Incident management for image automation (Add incident management section to image automation docs #871)
• Advanced debugging guide (Add guide for pprof endpoints #878)
• Azure ACR auth for image automation (Add ACR auth to Image Updates examples #877)
• Azure DevOps PAT auth for Git over HTTPS (Add Azure DevOps PAT auth to install docs #879)

flux CLI

• Rework flux uninstall to handle finalizers (Refactor flux uninstall command #891)
• Extend flux create image policy with regex filters and alphabetical ordering (Adding --select-alpha and --extract to create image policy #860)
• Add support for getting resources by name (Add support for getting resources by name #867)
• Allow Flux to be deployed on tainted Kubernetes nodes (Allow Flux to be deployed on tainted Kubernetes nodes #899)
• Add certificate authority to flux create source/secret git (Add certificate authority to create source/secret git #874)

source-controller

• Self-singed cert support for Git over HTTPS (Add custom CA validation for Git over HTTPS source-controller#283)
• Bug fix for Helm charts with custom valuesFile (Fix chart with custom valuesFile (0bytes tgz) source-controller#286)
• Bug fixes to libgit2 Git implementation
  • libgit2: use provided host to validate public key source-controller#288
  • libgit2: check hostkey type when validating hostkey source-controller#290
• Release v0.8.0 (Alpine 3.13, runtime profiling, EKS/IRSA support)

kustomize-controller

• Add support for bash-style variable substitutions ([RFC] Add support for variable substitutions kustomize-controller#253)
• Extend the API with Kustomize Strategic Merge and JSON 6902 patches (Support Strategic Merge and JSON 6902 patches kustomize-controller#264)
• Allow disabling pruning for certain resources (Allow disabling of prune on certain resources kustomize-controller#267)
• Release v0.8.0 (Alpine 3.13, runtime profiling support)

helm-controller

• Add PostRenderer support for Kustomize Strategic Merge, Images and JSON 6902 patches (Support for Kustomize based PostRenderer helm-controller#202)
• Release v0.7.0 (Alpine 3.13, runtime profiling support)

notification-controller

• Add support for excluding events form alerting based on regular expressions (Implement regex exclusions for alerts notification-controller#138)
• Release v0.8.0 (Alpine 3.13, runtime profiling support)

image-reflector-controller

• Extend image policy with numerical ordering (Extend image policy with numerical ordering image-reflector-controller#102)
• Release v0.6.0 (Alpine 3.13, runtime profiling support)

image-update-controller

• Update to kyaml/v0.10.9 (Update kyaml to v0.10.9 image-automation-controller#108)
• Fix libgit2 cloning bug (User cancelled hostkey check on Azure DevOps image-automation-controller#106)
• Release v0.6.0 (Alpine 3.13, runtime profiling support)

[stefanprodan]

flux2 v0.8 has been released 🎉 https://github.com/fluxcd/flux2/releases/tag/v0.8.0