TCE Release v0.7.0-rc.2

We are delighted to present version v0.7.0-rc.2 of Tanzu Community Edition.

A big thank you to everyone who contributed to the release!

Major Changes

Native Windows CLI Support

TCE now ships a Windows tarball containing signed binaries for the Tanzu CLI and all associated plugins.
#1311

TCE Package Repository is validated with newest Carvel APIs

TCE has updated it's implementation using kapp-controller 0.20+ and the newest Carvel APIs.
#1116

Sonobuoy support via tanzu conformance subcommand

This introduces a conformance command into Tanzu CLI, powered by sonobuoy.
#824

Experimental Azure Support

As of this release, there is experimental support for Azure cloud.

Deprecation & Removal Notices

Since we are currently shipping versions pre-v1.0.0, we aren't maintaining backwards compatibility with prior releases. This is a notice that prior releases may not function as intented.

Upgrading

Download the latest release, and run the install.sh / install.bat script within the package.

Full Changelog From Latest Minor Release

• Use golang cache in GitHub actions workflows (#1057, @jpmcb)

• Standalone cluster now stores the boostrap cluster objects under the ~/.config/tanzu config directory (#1262, @jpmcb)

• Add GH action to add labels to PRs (#878, @carlisia)

• Add RelEng Team Ownership to Test Directory (#1130, @dvonthenen)

• Add apiserver recording rules for prometheus (#1063, @LukeWinikates)

• Add architecture documentation (#1204, @joshrosso)

• Add cloud provider vsphere versions v1.19.1 and v1.20.0 (#1083, @nicolehanjing)

• Add controller-gen download when doing unstable [trivial] (#1115, @dvonthenen)

• Add github prow bot (#1046, @jpmcb)

• Add kapp-controller 0.22.0 (#1216, @shivaani0505)

• Add kapp-controller rebase rules for Antrea APIService resource (#964, @nicolehanjing)

• Add metadata to Package CR's of Observability packages. (#1077, @akodali18)

• Add package metadata for cert-manager (#1104, @shyaamsn)

• Add package templates Antrea 0.13.3 (#953, @andrewsykim)

• Azure - missing doc (#1238, @kcoriordan)

• Azure doc (#1070, @kcoriordan)

• Azure getting started (#1233, @kcoriordan)

• Build and package everything related to TCE using a core main branch (#918, @dvonthenen)

• Bump cloud provider vsphere to v1.21.0 (#998, @nicolehanjing)

• Bump github prow bot to v1.1.3 (#1074, @jpmcb)

• Bump up harbor 2.2.3 (#1055, @heww)

• Change global namespace for kapp controller (#1098, @shivaani0505)

• Check for TKG proxy env vars. Set to empty if non present (#1228, @jpmcb)

• Complete Port of Old tce-v1.3.0 to Tanzu Framework (#1141, @dvonthenen)

• Continue release even on stderr (#1215, @dvonthenen)

• Contour fix job (#1184, @jorgemoralespou)

• Contour package: add more metadata (#1059, @skriss)

• Disable ingress by default; document Contour as Ingress dependency. (#957, @LukeWinikates)

• Doc - Multiple issues (#1231, @kcoriordan)

• Doc: Multiple doc issues (#1232, @kcoriordan)

• Docs - mgmt delete-scale-examine - 945 (#1091, @kcoriordan)

• Docs - workload clusters (#1086, @kcoriordan)

• Enable opt-in K8s logging exclusion for fluent-bit (#1025, @LukeWinikates)

• Error on install as root (#1178, @dvonthenen)

• External-dns: update maintainers (#1082, @rosenhouse)

• Fix Prom package readme (#1016, @dvonthenen)

• Fix build staging (#1110, @dvonthenen)

• Fix clone/checkout on specific commit (#1177, @dvonthenen)

• Fix github action dev build (part 3) (#1112, @dvonthenen)

• Fix incorrectly attempting get go mod deps for README [trivial] (#1221, @dvonthenen)

• Fix missing go sum entries and fix go linting errors (#960, @jpmcb)

• Fix path used for version/tag automation (#1179, @dvonthenen)

• Fix prom package lint on README (#902, @dvonthenen)

• Fix release commit with merge flag [trivial] (#1210, @dvonthenen)

• Fix release process after separate go.mods (#1121, @dvonthenen)

• Fix releasedAt in Package CR to be metav1.time format (#1119, @shyaamsn)

• Fix tanzu framework replace (#1111, @dvonthenen)

• Include missing metadata. (#1259, @akodali18)

• Kubernetes Services of type ExternalName will now not be processed by Contour. (#1160, @sunjayBhatia)

• Merge Docs back into main (#1004, @kcoriordan)

• Missing ytt missing_ok annotation (#939, @jorgemoralespou)

• Native Windows Support (#1095, @dvonthenen)

• Provide uninstall script in tarball (#1244, @dvonthenen)

• Refactor and fix release process commit/tagging (#1207, @dvonthenen)

• Remove CPI imageinfo related info (#1094, @nicolehanjing)

• Remove incomplete implementation of grafana ldap configuration hooks (#1048, @LukeWinikates)

• Remove updateStrategy config value from fluent-bit package (#932, @LukeWinikates)

• Revert "Merge pull request #1017 from vmware-tanzu/use-checkout-v2" (#1020, @jpmcb)

• Revert pull_request_target to pull_request (#1019, @jpmcb)

• Revert using a PR to bump release version (#1220, @dvonthenen)

• Script to easily download a TCE release from Github (#899, @jpmcb)

• Standalone cluster now uses the ~/.config/tanzu directory for configurations (#1089, @jpmcb)

• Standalone clusterconfigs are loaded from the default tkg config dir: ~/.config/tanzu/tkg/clusterconfigs (#1208, @jpmcb)

• Sync build tag with tanzu framework repo (#1223, @dvonthenen)

• TKG-6021: Dex deployment errors out on Kube 1.21 (#954, @benjaminapetersen)

• Trivial: adjust wording in readme for addon/package wording (#1134, @jpmcb)

• Unify GH Action filenames [trivial] (#1108, @dvonthenen)

• Update AKO to v1.4.3 and AKOO to v1.4.0 (#940, @shyaamsn)

• Update Tanzu-Framework using v0.3.22 (#1156, @dvonthenen)

• Update ako-operator images.yml (#1137, @iXinqi)

• Update ako-operator/values.yaml (#1142, @iXinqi)

• Update checkout action to v2 (#1017, @jpmcb)

• Update contributing.md to reflect using multiple go modules (#1117, @jpmcb)

• Update issue templates and readme with more contributing guidelines (#1049, @jpmcb)

• Update kapp-controller to v0.20.0 release (#931, @shyaamsn)

• Update to 7/27 shippable build hash [trivial] (#1185, @dvonthenen)

• Updates for release-docker build (#1222, @dvonthenen)

• Upgrade Pinniped package to 0.4.4 (#1033, @ankeesler)

• Upload unsigned windows tarballs to all releases (#1229, @dvonthenen)

• Use pull_request_target instead of pull_request (#1012, @jpmcb)

• When building Framework pin to a specific hash on main (#1161, @dvonthenen)

• Windows install (#1237, @kcoriordan)

• [AVI] Fix three bugs in ako-operator templates (#798, @iXinqi)

• [Docs] Add local-path-storage & update standalone delete docs (#1230, @jpmcb)

• [Docs] Cherry-pick docs commits (#1203, @jpmcb)

• [Docs] Tweak description and restrictions for standalone clusters (#1260, @jpmcb)

• [Release Process] When the branch already exists (#1213, @dvonthenen)

• [Testing] Branch protection with release (#1198, @dvonthenen)