Prepare for release v1.8 minor release

[adilGhaffarDev]

Here we can track the tasks related to release 1.8

Tasks

• Prepare dev-env to acommodate new release related changes and configurations Prior art
  • PR: 🌱 Add release-1.8-branch-config metal3-dev-env#1443
  • PR: 🌱 Fixing CAPM3RELEASE for main branch metal3-dev-env#1452
• Release Ironic, also check new image is created in quay. Prior art
  • v26.0.0 release: https://github.com/metal3-io/ironic-image/releases/tag/v26.0.0
• Pin Ironic in BMO and metal3-dev-env. Prior art
  • PR: 🌱 Pinning ironic image to release-26.0 branch baremetal-operator#1928
  • PR: use new ironic-image 26.0.0 release for release-1.8 metal3-dev-env#1453
• Uplift CAPI to v1.8.1 in IPAM and CAPM3, also check migration guide: Migration guide for providers . Prior art IPAM, Prior art CAPM3
  • IPAM bump PR: 🌱 Bump CAPI to v1.8.1 ip-address-manager#641
  • CAPM3 bump PR: 🌱 Bump CAPI to v1.8.1 #1889
  • CAPM3 related to CAPI uplift: 🌱 Set terminationMessagePolicy to FallbackToLogsOnError for manager #1883
• Uplift k8s to 1.31 in CAPM3 and metal3-dev-env repo. Prior art metal3-dev-env, Prior art CAPM3
  • dev-env PR: 🌱 bump k8s to v1.31.0 metal3-dev-env#1444
  • CAPM3 PR: 🌱 Bump k8s to v1.31.0 and drop caBundle from CRDs to support Kubernetes 1.31 #1866
• Uplift k8s to 1.31 in image building pipeline. Pending PR
  • PR updating jjb: https://gerrit.nordix.org/c/infra/cicd/+/22205
  • PR updating pipeline: Uplift kubernetes version to v1.31.0 for image building project-infra#836
• Release IPAM (Branch out, add branch protection and required tests, also check new image is created in quay).
  • Branched out: https://github.com/metal3-io/ip-address-manager/tree/release-1.8
  • Create release TODO.
• Release BMO (Branch out, add branch protection and required tests, also check new image is created in quay).
  • Branched out: https://github.com/metal3-io/baremetal-operator/tree/release-0.8
  • Create release TODO.
• Bump IPAM and BMO in CAPM3 in both main and release-1.8 Prior art
  • 🌱 Uplift BMO to v0.8.0 and IPAM to v1.8.0 #1944
  • 🌱 Uplift BMO to v0.8.0 and IPAM to v1.8.0 #1946
• Release CAPM3 (Branch out, add branch protection and required tests, also check new image is created in quay).
  • Branched out: https://github.com/metal3-io/cluster-api-provider-metal3/tree/release-1.8
• Add/edit JJBs to accommodate new build jobs and PR jobs for new release branches. And remove unsupported releases tests for CAPM3 and IPAM. Prior art
  • jjb PR: https://gerrit.nordix.org/c/infra/cicd/+/22187
• Add Prow jobs for new release branches in Project-infra repo, also remove unsupported releases tests for CAPM3 and IPAM here too Prior art
  • Pipeline update PR:🌱 Add release-1.8 configurations project-infra#832
• Check CI if new releases are tested properly or not
• Update CAPM3 README.md with the new e2e triggers, on both the release-1.8 and on main Prior art
  • 📖 Update job triggers documents #1956
  • 📖 Document job trigger for release-1.8 #1955
• Update IPAM README.md with the new e2e triggers, on both the release-1.8 and on main Prior art
  • 📖 Update build badges for release-1.8 ip-address-manager#677
  • 📖 Update missing releases in compatibility table ip-address-manager#678
• Update BMO README.md with the new e2e triggers, on both the release-0.8 and on main Prior art
  • 📖 Update readme on test triggers on release-0.8 baremetal-operator#1933
  • 📖 Update test triggers on README baremetal-operator#1934
• Add BMO upgrade test for release-0.8 -> main, and update all ironic upgrade tests to use release-0.8, also remove tests for release-0.4
  • 🌱 Add BMO 0.8 e2e baremetal-operator#1945
• Update Metal3 book. Prior art
  • 🌱 Add ironic release-26.0 to the version support metal3-docs#469
  • 🌱 Remove release 1.5 from test matrix metal3-docs#467
• Announce the releases

Post-release tasks

Do the following on the main branch after the release is done.

• Add CAPI v1.8 contract.
  • PR: 🌱 Add CAPI v1.8 contract #1888
• Update clusterctl tests to accommodate new releases.

[Sunnatillo]

/triage accepted

[Sunnatillo]

k8s uplift for node images: metal3-io/project-infra#836
CAPI uplift: metal3-io/ip-address-manager#641
CAPI uplift: #1889

[tuminoid]

#1891
#1890
metal3-io/ip-address-manager#642
metal3-io/baremetal-operator#1886
metal3-io/baremetal-operator#1883
metal3-io/baremetal-operator#1882
metal3-io/ip-address-manager#645
metal3-io/ip-address-manager#644
metal3-io/ip-address-manager#643
metal3-io/baremetal-operator#1885
metal3-io/baremetal-operator#1884
#1885

and perhaps some cherry-picks of those coming still.

[tuminoid]

#1892

[tuminoid]

#1893

[tuminoid]

metal3-io/baremetal-operator#1888 + cherry-picks coming

[tuminoid]

BMO releasing complete

• https://github.com/metal3-io/baremetal-operator/releases/tag/v0.8.0
• https://github.com/metal3-io/baremetal-operator/releases/tag/v0.6.2
• https://github.com/metal3-io/baremetal-operator/releases/tag/v0.5.2