Update core layer components in VEBA

[rguske]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

We are still running Kubernetes version 1.25.5 and PhotonOS 4.0 Rev.2 in VEBA. The Tanzu Sources for Knative v.0.39.0 already requires k8s version 1.26 as a minimum. Running an older k8s version with v.0.39.0 of the Sources will result in an error:

k -n vmware-sources logs  vsphere-source-webhook-64c58bc7d9-cn5qs

{"level":"fatal","ts":"2023-12-27T10:45:02.484Z","logger":"vsphere-source-webhook","caller":"sharedmain/main.go:386","msg":"Version check failed","commit":"536930e-dirty","error":"kubernetes version \"1.25.5\" is not compatible, need at least \"1.26.0-0\" (this can be overridden with the env var \"KUBERNETES_MIN_VERSION\")","stacktrace":"knative.dev/pkg/injection/sharedmain.CheckK8sClientMinimumVersionOrDie\n\tknative.dev/pkg@v0.0.0-20231211072236-4914c472e81a/injection/sharedmain/main.go:386\nknative.dev/pkg/injection/sharedmain.MainWithConfig\n\tknative.dev/pkg@v0.0.0-20231211072236-4914c472e81a/injection/sharedmain/main.go:256\nknative.dev/pkg/injection/sharedmain.MainWithContext\n\tknative.dev/pkg@v0.0.0-20231211072236-4914c472e81a/injection/sharedmain/main.go:210\nmain.main\n\tgithub.com/vmware-tanzu/sources-for-knative/cmd/vsphere-controller/main.go:143\nruntime.main\n\truntime/proc.go:267"}

I've validated the suggested workaround successfully but we have to bump all components in VEBA to a newer version.

Workaround:

kubectl -n vmware-sources patch deployment horizon-source-controller -p '{"spec":{"template":{"spec":{"containers":[{"name":"horizon-source-controller","env":[{"name":"KUBERNETES_MIN_VERSION","value":"v1.25.5"}]}]}}}}'

kubectl -n vmware-sources patch deployment horizon-source-webhook -p '{"spec":{"template":{"spec":{"containers":[{"name":"horizon-source-webhook","env":[{"name":"KUBERNETES_MIN_VERSION","value":"v1.25.5"}]}]}}}}'

kubectl -n vmware-sources patch deployment vsphere-source-webhook -p '{"spec":{"template":{"spec":{"containers":[{"name":"vsphere-source-webhook","env":[{"name":"KUBERNETES_MIN_VERSION","value":"v1.25.5"}]}]}}}}'

[rguske]

PR work:

• Kubernetes 1.25.5 -> 1.29.2
• Knative 1.8.1 -> 1.13.1
• Knative CLI 1.8.1 -> 1.13.0
• Knative Contour 1.8.1 -> 1.13.0
• Antrea 1.10.0 -> 1.15.0
• FluentBit 2.0.8 -> 2.2.2
• cAdvisor 0.47.0 -> 0.47.2
• kind 1.25.3 -> 1.29.1
• RabbitMQ Operator 1.14.0 -> 2.7.0
• RabbitMQ Broker 1.8.3 -> 1.13.0
• RabbitMQ MTO 1.10.0 -> 1.13.0
• Cert-Manager 1.11.0 -> 1.14.2
• CSI 0.0.23 -> 0.0.26
• Tanzu Sources 0.37.1 -> 0.39.0
• ytt CLI -> 0.44.1 -> 0.48.0
• ContainerD 1.6.15 -> 1.7.13

Validation of the new versions is almost complete. Currently facing an issue with the installation of the Tanzu Sources. See Tanzu Sources Issue 544.

All issues could be fixed and the VEBA deployment could be verified successfully. PR #1164 created.