Buoyant Extension RSS

The Buoyant Extension is an aggregate package that includes the Linkerd lifecycle automation operator, the Buoyant Cloud agent, and certain BEL-specific linkerd CLI features.

v0.29.0

May 6, 2024
  • Updated linkerd-data-plane-operator to support restarting proxies running in native sidecar containers.
  • Updated buoyant-cloud-agent to fix a serialization issue with v1beta1 Server resources on Linkerd 2.14 clusters.
  • Updated linkerd-control-plane-operator to support latest edge and patch releases. View all supported versions.
  • Updated golang.org/x/net dependency to remediate CVE-2023-45288.

v0.28.0

April 8, 2024
  • Added a licenseSecret Helm value to allow users to provide their Buoyant License via a Kubernetes secret.
  • Added additionalVolumes and additionalVolumeMounts Helm values to allow users to mount additional volumes and volumeMounts to any Buoyant Extension container.
  • Added a spec.components.linkerd.licenseSecret field to the Managed Linkerd ControlPlane CRD, to allow users to provide their Buoyant License via a Kubernetes secret.
  • Updated linkerd-control-plane-operator to support up to enterprise-2.15.2. View all supported versions.
  • Updated the linkerd-buoyant check CLI output to check the linkerd-control-plane-validator workload, and also point to new doc versions.
  • Updated Go to 1.22.2
  • Updated github.com/docker/docker dependency to remediate CVE-2024-21626 and CVE-2024-24557
  • Updated github.com/golang/protobuf dependency to remediate CVE-2024-24786
  • Updated google.golang.org/grpc dependency to remediate CVE-2023-44487

v0.27.4

March 5, 2024
  • Fixed linkerd-control-plane-operator not supporting dynamic updates of enterprise patch releases in some cases.

v0.27.3

March 1, 2024
  • Updated linkerd-control-plane-operator to give all users access to dynamic updates to the latest Linkerd versions, not just Buoyant Cloud customers.

v0.27.1

February 21, 2024
  • Updated linkerd-control-plane-operator to support up to enterprise-2.15.0, or enterprise-2.15.1 when Buoyant Cloud is installed. View all supported versions.
  • Added linkerd-control-plane-operator support for enterprise-2.15 releases. Unlike enterprise-2.14.10-0, enterprise-2.15 is hosted publicly, and no longer requires the controlPlaneOperator.helmRepoPrefix and controlPlaneOperator.helmDockerConfigJSONSecret values.

v0.26.1

January 24, 2024
  • Updated linkerd-control-plane-operator to support up to enterprise-2.14.9-1, or enterprise-2.14.9-3 when Buoyant Cloud is installed. View all supported versions.
  • Added linkerd-control-plane-operator support for managed upgrades to the new Buoyant Enterprise for Linkerd preview channel, along with managed downgrades from preview to enterprise.

v0.26.0

January 14, 2024
  • Updated linkerd-control-plane-operator to support up to enterprise-2.14.8-1, or enterprise-2.14.9-1 when Buoyant Cloud is installed. View all supported versions.
  • Added linkerd-control-plane-operator support for the new Buoyant Enterprise for Linkerd preview channel. Note: The operator does not currently support migration to/from the preview channel, only fresh installations.

v0.25.0

December 20, 2023
  • Updated linkerd-control-plane-operator to support up to enterprise-2.14.7-0, or enterprise-2.14.8-0 when Buoyant Cloud is installed. View all supported versions.
  • Added a spec.components.linkerd.crdsConfig field to the Managed Linkerd ControlPlane CRD, to allow configuring linkerd-crds.

v0.24.0

December 5, 2023
  • Updated linkerd-control-plane-operator to support up to enterprise-2.14.5-1. View all supported versions.
  • Added Helm value controlPlaneOperator.helmRepoPrefix to allow overriding the default Buoyant Enterprise for Linkerd Helm registry.
  • Added Helm value controlPlaneOperator.helmNoTLS to allow disabling TLS when fetching Buoyant Enterprise for Linkerd Helm charts.
  • Simplified ControlPlane custom resource ergonomics when installing a FIPS-enabled Buoyant Enterprise for Linkerd control plane.
  • Updated buoyant-cloud-agent, linkerd-control-plane-operator, and linkerd-data-plane-operator to better abide by cpu and memory limits, via automaxprocs.
  • Improved gRPC metrics and logging.
  • Loosened client-go throttling, and improved logging.

v0.23.1

October 25, 2023
  • Updated linkerd-control-plane-operator to support up to enterprise-2.14.1-2, or enterprise-2.14.5-1 when Buoyant Cloud is installed. View all supported versions.
  • Added Helm value metrics.debugMetrics to enable sending additional debug metrics to Buoyant.
  • Upgraded buoyant-cloud-metrics to v0.35.4.
  • Fixed an issue where buoyant-cloud-metrics could consume excessive memory when the Linkerd Destination controller exported many server_port_subscribes metrics.

v0.23.0

October 10, 2023
  • Breaking change: The agent now requires Linkerd be installed in the default linkerd namespace.
  • Breaking change: To convert an unmanaged Linkerd installation to managed, the linkerd-control-plane-operator now that requires Linkerd’s Helm releases conform to the default linkerd-crds and linkerd-control-plane names. Users with non-default Helm release names may run linkerd-buoyant controlplane migrate-helm-release to migrate.
  • Updated linkerd-control-plane-operator to support up to edge-23.10.3, stable-2.14.1, and enterprise-2.14.1-2
  • Added support for managing ControlPlane Custom Resources via ArgoCD.
  • Modified Helm value controlPlaneOperator.extendedRBAC.enabled, default changed from true to false. This flag should only be enabled for clusters with Linkerd 2.12 or below.
  • Removed Helm values linkerd.namespace, linkerdJaeger.namespace, and linkerdMulticluster.namespace
  • Added an --enable-pprof debug flag, defaulted to false, on buoyant-cloud-agent, linkerd-control-plane-operator, and linkerd-data-plane-operator
  • Updated buoyant-cloud-agent to send TLS certs from webhook secrets

v0.22.0

September 6, 2023
  • Breaking change: Move all workloads from buoyant-cloud to linkerd-buoyant namespace. Please follow these one-time migration instructions.
  • Updated linkerd-control-plane-operator to support up to edge-23.9.4, stable-2.13.7, and enterprise-2.13.6-2
  • Added new linkerd-buoyant migrate-helm-release CLI subcommand, to aide in migration to a Managed Linkerd installation.
  • Added support for dynamic upgrades of managed Buoyant Enterprise for Linkerd. This enables Linkerd upgrades without first requiring an agent upgrade.

v0.21.0

August 25, 2023
  • Added support for managed Buoyant Enterprise for Linkerd, up to enterprise-2.13.6-1
  • Added Helm value controlPlaneOperator.helmDockerConfigJSONSecret, for Buoyant enterprise registry access
  • Added Helm value buoyantCloudEnabled, default true . When set to false, disable buoyant-cloud-agent, buoyant-cloud-metrics, all communication with Buoyant Cloud
  • Fixed an issue in the linkerd-buoyant CLI where it may fail to read KUBECONFIG

v0.20.0

August 3, 2023
  • Updated linkerd-control-plane-operator to support up to stable-2.13.6 and edge-23.8.3
  • Updated linkerd-control-plane-operator to require a controlPlaneConfig field on all ControlPlane Custom Resources. This ensures the ControlPlane CR is the ground source of truth for the Linkerd installation. This is a breaking change and will require modifying existing ControlPlane Custom Resources.
  • Added a new linkerd-control-plane-validator component, to validate ControlPlane Custom Resources are well-formed.
  • Added a linkerd-buoyant controlplane import-helm-config CLI command, to assist in migrating from an existing Helm or ControlPlane -based Linkerd installation to a new ControlPlane CR with a controlPlaneConfig field.
  • Added resources Helm config fields to support configuring memory and CPU requests and limits
  • Fixed linkerd-control-plane-operator to disallow skipping major versions during upgrades and downgrades
  • For a full list of new and existing configuration options, see the Helm documentation for this release

v0.19.0

July 25, 2023
  • Updated linkerd-control-plane-operator to support up to edge-23.7.2
  • Added Buoyant Cloud support for viewing HTTPRoute resources from the Gateway API
  • Fixed an issue with serializing the timeout fields for HTTPRoute resources from Linkerd
  • Added startup probes with default values, configurable via the startupProbe Helm value
  • Added support for configuring the startup sync timeout, configurable via the syncTimeout Helm value — useful for installing the agent on large clusters
  • Added support for JSON logging, configurable via the logFormat Helm value
  • For a full list of new and existing configuration options, see the Helm documentation for this release

v0.18.0

June 16, 2023
  • Updated linkerd-control-plane-operator to support up to edge-23.6.3 and stable-2.13.5
  • Updated buoyant-cloud-metrics to start collecting outbound TCP write metrics
  • Updated linkerd-data-plane-operator to work with Argo Rollouts
  • Updated serialization of Linkerd HTTPRoute resources to support all versions up to v1beta3

v0.17.6

May 10, 2023
  • Updated linkerd-control-plane-operator to support up to edge-23.5.3 and stable-2.13.3

v0.17.5

May 3, 2023
  • Updated linkerd-control-plane-operator to support up to edge-23.4.3 and stable-2.12.5
  • Upgraded Docker dependency to address GHSA-33pg-m6jh-5237
  • Fixed linkerd-control-plane-operator RBAC failure when Linkerd was installed with PodMonitor

v0.17.4

April 11, 2023
  • Improvements to the output of the check command
  • Hide --no-tls flag from the install command

v0.17.3

April 7, 2023
  • Enable linkerd-data-plane-operator to work with custom Linkerd proxy

v0.17.2

March 30, 2023
  • Add securityContext on initContainers in buoyant-cloud-agent and buoyant-cloud-metrics

v0.17.1

March 29, 2023
  • Fixed high cpu in linkerd-data-plane-operator

v0.17.0

March 16, 2023
  • Added Helm values:
    • affinity
    • imagePullSecrets
    • cpu and memory resource limit and request
    • tolerations
    • priorityClassName (buoyant-cloud-metrics only)
  • Updated linkerd-control-plane-operator to support up to edge-23.3.2 and stable-2.12.4
  • Fixed a memory leak in buoyant-cloud-agent

v0.16.1

March 9, 2023
  • Fixed an issue where ControlPlane and DataPlane custom resources would sometimes not appear in the Buoyant Cloud UI

v0.16.0

March 8, 2023
  • Added Helm values:
    • controlPlaneOperator.enabled : Enable/disable linkerd-control-plane-operator
    • dataPlaneOperator.enabled : Enable/disable linkerd-data-plane-operator
    • freeTier : Install the agent with limited free-tier features
  • Deprecated Helm value:
    • managed : Enable/disable managed features. Deprecated in favor of controlPlaneOperator.enabled and dataPlaneOperator.enabled
  • Updated linkerd-control-plane-operator to support up to edge-23.3.1 and stable-2.12.4
  • Updated non-Helm installations to include linkerd-data-plane-operator
  • Fixed agent installation failing via Argo

v0.15.6

February 16, 2023
  • Added the ability for users to collect control plane diagnostic data

v0.15.5

February 1, 2023
  • Updated linkerd-control-plane-operator to support up to edge-22.12.1 and stable-2.12.4

v0.15.4

December 22, 2022
  • Fixed linkerd-control-plane-operator failing to upgrade the Linkerd control plane if a SelfSubjectRulesReview check encountered an authorizer on the cluster that did not support rules evaluation

v0.15.3

December 15, 2022
  • Updated buoyant-cloud-metrics-agent to collect and send Linkerd control plane metrics to Buoyant Cloud

v0.15.2

December 1, 2022
  • Modified buoyant-cloud-agent to send Pod updates if the status of any container in the pod changes. This allows tracking the full lifecycle of containers.
  • Change all images references to ghcr.io/buoyantio
  • Switch ghcr.io/buoyantio/linkerd-buoyant from debian:bullseye-20221024-slim base image to scratch

v0.15.1

November 3, 2022
  • Updated buoyant-cloud-metrics-agent base Docker image to resolve OpenSSL vulnerabilities CVE-2022-3602 and CVE-2022-3786. While the vulnerable version of OpenSSL was not used by the running container, its inclusion in the base image was being reported by security scanners nonetheless. This has been fixed.
  • Updated linkerd-control-plane-operator to support up to edge-22.12.1 and stable-2.12.2

v0.15.0

October 21, 2022
  • Updated linkerd-control-plane-operator and linkerd-data-plane-operator to emit Kubernetes events, and updated buoyant-cloud-agent to send these events to Buoyant Cloud
  • Updated linkerd-control-plane-operator to support edge-22.10.1, edge-22.10.2, and stable-2.12.2
  • Fixed buoyant-cloud-agent not collecting trust root information from some Linkerd control plane components
  • Fixed linkerd-control-plane-operator unnecessarily toggling between Updating and Pending states

v0.14.2

September 27, 2022
  • Updated control plane operator to support stable-2.11.5, stable-2.12.0, and edge-22.9.2

v0.14.1

September 21, 2022
  • Added managed Linkerd feature to restart workloads if the data plane’s trust roots are out of sync with the control plane
  • Updated linkerd-buoyant check command to verify CRD existence
  • Updated managed Linkerd to only manage workloads that the proxy injector operates on
  • Fixed a bug that was leaving ControlPlane custom resources with an empty status field

v0.14.0

September 5, 2022
  • Added HTTPRoute gathering for Buoyant Cloud
  • Updated install to not require buoyant-cloud-org-credentials secret
  • Updated linkerd-buoyant check to validate linkerd-control-plane-operator and linkerd-data-plane-operator workloads
  • Updated linkerd-buoyant check to warn rather than fail on missing labels on the buoyant-cloud-org-credentials secret

v0.13.1

August 29, 2022
  • Added option for users to provide their own buoyant-cloud-org-credentials secret

v0.13.0

August 23, 2022
  • Updated control plane operator to support stable-2.12.0
  • Modified default Helm values:
    • managed : true
    • extendedRBAC.enabled : true

v0.12.1

August 19, 2022
  • Updated control plane operator to support stable-2.12.0-rc2
  • Fixed an issues with downgrading HA clusters from linkerd 2.12/edge to 2.11

v0.12.0

August 18, 2022
  • Renamed
    • Note: this requires re-creating any ControlPlane and DataPlane resources that previously existed on your cluster
  • Updated control plane operator to support edge-22.8.2
  • Updated control plane operator to guard against linkerd version skew
  • Added support for downgrades from linkerd 2.12/edge to 2.11
  • Updated helm chart to not install operator components if linkerd already installed via CLI
  • Uninjected operator components

v0.11.1

August 4, 2022
  • Updated minimum required Kubernetes version from 1.20 to 1.21
  • Fixed ControlPlane CRD’s lastUpdateAttempt and lastUpdateAttemptMessage fields not always updating
  • Collect additional proxy error metrics
  • Decreased metrics agent resource limits

v0.11.0

July 29, 2022
  • Added Argo Rollouts support
  • Added operator support for installing Linkerd from scratch
  • Added operator support for upgrading to Linkerd versions released in the future
  • Added helm values to set custom labels/annotations to pods
  • Updated operator support up to stable-2.11.4 and edge-22.7.3

v0.10.3

June 23, 2022
  • Fixed incomplete data sent on startup
  • Fixed terminated pods not immediately disappearing in Buoyant Cloud
  • Operator support for edge-22.6.2
  • Added exponential backoff for data-plane upgrades

v0.10.2

June 16, 2022
  • Operator support for edge-22.6.1

v0.10.1

June 9, 2022
  • Fixed a nil-pointer exception when gathering webhook certs

v0.10.0

June 9, 2022
  • Added support for gathering Linkerd webhook certs
  • Fix containerd security vulnerability
  • Operator support for edge-22.5.2 and edge-22.5.3

v0.9.4

June 1, 2022
  • Gather Operator CRDs
  • Renamed Operator CRDs
    • ControlPlaneUpdate => ControlPlane
    • DataPlaneUpdate => DataPlane

v0.9.3

May 25, 2022
  • Gather linkerd-proxy OOM events
  • Fixed CRD status sometimes getting incorrectly overwritten
  • Remove broken stable-2.10.x => edge upgrade paths

v0.9.2

May 11, 2022
  • Set 443 as a skip port in Linkerd, to address an issue with Linkerd installed in CNI mode
  • Operator support for upgrading from stable-2.10.x
  • Add a default PSP resource

v0.9.1

May 9, 2022
  • Operator support for edge-22.5.1