v1.12.1-rc1 Release

v1.12.1-rc1

Changes since v1.12.0:

• Bug - Cleanup pod networking resources when IPAMD is unreachable to prevent rule leaking.
  (@jdn5126 )
• Improvement - Move VPC CNI and VPC CNI init images to use EKS minimal base image.
  (@jdn5126 )
• Improvement - Updating helm chart as per helm v3 standard (@jaydeokar )
• Improvement - Update golang to 1.19.2 (@jayanthvn )
• Testing - Fixes to automation runs (@jdn5126 )
• Feature - Reporting EC2 API calls metrics through CNI metrics helper (@jaydeokar)
• Feature - Added resources block to cni-metrics-helper helm chart (@jcogilvie )
• Feature - CLUSTER_ENDPOINT can now be specified to allow the VPC CNI to initialize before kube-proxy has finished setting up cluster IP routes (@bwagner5 )
• Testing - Fix environment variable name in update-cni-image script @sushrk
• Documentation - Update troubleshooting docs for node operating system(@jdn5126 )
• Cleanup - Merging makefile and go.mod from test directory to root directory (@jerryhe1999 )
• Bug - Skip add-on installation when an add-on information is not available(@sushrk )
• Bug - Add missing rules when NodePort support is disabled(@antoninbas )
• Bug - Fix logging in publisher package (@jdn5126 )

To apply this release:

kubectl apply -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/aws/amazon-vpc-cni-k8s/v1.12.1-rc1/config/master/aws-k8s-cni.yaml

Verify the update:

$ kubectl describe daemonset aws-node -n kube-system | grep Image | cut -d "/" -f 2                                                   
amazon-k8s-cni-init:v1.12.1-rc1
amazon-k8s-cni:v1.12.1-rc1