Things to do before the v1 version is released

[tao12345666333]

In order to facilitate our v1 release, we need to list some planned things for follow-up.

Existing issues:

• Fix ingressClass in helm charts for dev-v1 #7456
• Pods failed to start after upgrade chart to 4.0.0 #7430 - Need to release a new helm chart that supports --watch-without-ingress-class
• [v1] jettech/kube-webhook-certgen is not compatible with 1.22+ #7418 - PR to jettech/kube-webhook-certgen was put. If no answer is made on time, we can fork this right now, and then once the PR is merged return into the upstream.

changes

• Fix IngressClass logic for newer releases #7341
• Update versions of components for base image #7411
• Update the base images with the above generated -> @iamNoah1 and @rikatz will do this

sha256:a7356029dd0c26cc3466bf7a27daec0f4df73aa14ca6c8b871a767022a812c0b": ["v20210530-g6aab4c291"]

docs

• Migrate from existing version to v1 version - docs for migration of ingress resources in K8s v1.22 and beyond #7441

release

• cut a beta release for controller
• cut a beta release for Helm chart

Code Freeze and Release

After the above issues are solved and the changes merged a code freeze will be in place

• Cherry pick missing PRs from dev-v1 to main due to the mess @rikatz made on the branches :P -> main...dev-v1
• Cut a new branch with existing code and call it v0.X -> This is the version to be supported for the next 6 months + k8s clusters v1.16 ~ v1.18
• Merge the branch dev-v1 into main
• Merge all the documentation
• Release
• Have two weeks of rest

cc @rikatz @strongjz

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[tao12345666333]

/cc @rikatz @strongjz

[rikatz]

I don't know if we can create a pre-release helm chart the same way we do with releases here in Github.

One like "this is the latest but you need to install it manually"

Is that possible?

[rikatz]

https://artifacthub.io/docs/topics/annotations/helm/

Maybe we can cut a helm 4.0 pointing to controller v1.0, kubeVersion >=1.19, and the annotation of pre-release

@strongjz thoughts?

[tao12345666333]

As far as I know, it should not work.

Once released, even if it is a pre-release status in GitHub, our helm repo will not distinguish it.

But I'm happy to try it.

[tao12345666333]

I don't know if we can create a pre-release helm chart the same way we do with releases here in Github.

One like "this is the latest but you need to install it manually"

Is that possible?

@rikatz After a quick verification, it can be realized, as long as the version number conforms to this specification. https://semver.org/#spec-item-9

https://github.com/helm/helm/blob/e9e6b07f62e2bb5067afe79782ba3dd85efbd00e/cmd/helm/install.go#L92-L103

➜  helm-demo helm search repo demo        
NAME            CHART VERSION   APP VERSION     DESCRIPTION                
demo/demo       0.1.0           1.16.0          A Helm chart for Kubernetes
➜  helm-demo helm search repo demo --devel
NAME            CHART VERSION   APP VERSION     DESCRIPTION                
demo/demo       0.2.0-alpha     1.17.0-alpha    A Helm chart for Kubernetes

[rikatz]

Other things that needs to be fixed before release:

• Update versions of components for base image #7411
• docs for migration of ingress resources in K8s v1.22 and beyond #7441
• Fix ingressClass in helm charts for dev-v1 #7456
• Pods failed to start after upgrade chart to 4.0.0 #7430

[rikatz]

@kd7lxl see the description as well, added the required cherry picks before merging

[longwuyuan]

#7494
kubernetes/website#29397