v1.7.0 Release Candidate 2

Second release candidate for CNI v1.7.0. This pre-release image is only available in us-west-2.

Additional changes since v1.7.0-rc1:

• Improvement - Add ipamd changes for sg support (#1126, @mogren)
• Improvement - Add support to setup pod network using VLANss (#1125, @SaranBalaji90)
• Improvement - Improve CRI->checkpoint logic in the face of downgrades (#1123, @anguslees)
• Docs - Changed data type for variables in README (#1116, @abhinavmpandey08)
• Improvement - Slash and burn unused code (#1115, @anguslees)
• Improvement - Remove references to unused metadata owner-id (#1111, @anguslees)
• Improvement - Remove old pre-1.3 migration code (#1110, @anguslees)
• Testing - Create script to run all release tests (#1106, @bnapolitan)
• Improvement - Enable log config for the metrics agent (#1104, @mogren)
• Improvement - Refactor ENI limit struct (#1035, @mogren)
• Testing - Cover bottlerocket cluster test (#1096, @bnapolitan)
• Testing - Introduce automated performance testing (#1068, @bnapolitan)

Thanks to everyone who contributed to this release; @SaranBalaji90, @anguslees, @abhinavmpandey08 and @bnapolitan!

If you want to test this release candidate in one of your clusters, you can use this sample aws-node daemonset config:

kubectl apply -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/aws/amazon-vpc-cni-k8s/release-1.7/config/v1.7/aws-k8s-cni.yaml

Verify the update:

kubectl describe ds aws-node -n kube-system | grep Image | cut -d ":" -f 2-3

        602401143452.dkr.ecr.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/amazon-k8s-cni-init:v1.7.0-rc2
      602401143452.dkr.ecr.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/amazon-k8s-cni:v1.7.0-rc2