Release Notes - 2.44.0📜

Please see our documentation page for more information on how to consume and deploy BigBang. This release was primarily tested on Kubernetes 1.30.3 (RKE2).

Upgrade Notices📜

Eck-operator - MR:
- NOTE: Will perform rolling-restart/upgrade on Elastic cluster

Upgrades from previous releases📜

If coming from a version pre-2.43.0, note the additional upgrade notices in any release in between. The BB team doesn’t test/guarantee upgrades from anything pre-2.43.0.

Packages📜

Package	Type	Package Version	BB Version
Alloy	Addon	`1.4.2`	`1.6.16-bb.0` 🔗
Anchore Enterprise	Addon	`5.12.0`	`3.2.0-bb.1`
Argocd	Addon	`2.13.1`	`7.7.5-bb.1`
Authservice	Addon	`1.0.3`	`1.0.3-bb.0`
Cluster Auditor	Core	`0.0.7`	`1.5.0-bb.22`
Eck Operator	Core	`2.16.0`	`2.16.0-bb.0` 🔗
Elasticsearch Kibana	Core	Kibana `8.17.0` Elasticsearch `8.17.0`	`1.24.0-bb.2` 🔗
External Secrets	Addon	`0.11.0`	`0.11.0-bb.2`
Fluentbit	Core	`3.2.4`	`0.48.4-bb.0` 🔗
Fortify	Addon	`24.4.1.0005`	`1.1.2320154-bb.21`
Gatekeeper	Core	`3.18.1`	`3.18.1-bb.0`
Gitlab	Addon	`17.6.2`	`8.6.2-bb.0`
Gitlab Runner	Addon	`17.5.4`	`0.70.4-bb.1` 🔗
Grafana	Core	`11.4.0`	`8.8.2-bb.0` 🔗
Haproxy	Addon	`2.2.33`	`1.19.3-bb.8`
Harbor	Addon	`2.11.0`	`1.16.0-bb.2`
Holocron	Addon	`3.3.2`	`1.0.12`
Istio Controlplane	Core	Istio `1.23.3` Tetrate Istio Distro `1.23.3`	`1.23.3-bb.2`
Istio Operator	Core	Istio Operator `1.23.3` Tetrate Istio Distro Operator `1.23.3`	`1.23.3-bb.0`
Jaeger	Core	`1.61.0`	`2.57.0-bb.0`
Keycloak	Addon	`25.0.6`	`2.5.1-bb.3`
Kiali	Core	`2.2.0`	`2.2.0-bb.0` 🔗
Kyverno	Core	`1.13.2`	`3.3.4-bb.0`
Kyverno Policies	Core	`3.3.4`	`3.3.4-bb.0`
Kyverno Reporter	Core	`2.20.2`	`2.24.2-bb.1`
Loki	Core	`3.3.2`	`6.24.0-bb.0` 🔗
Mattermost	Addon	`10.2.0`	`10.2.0-bb.1`
Mattermost Operator	Addon	`1.22.1`	`1.22.1-bb.1`
Metrics Server	Addon	`0.7.2`	`3.12.2-bb.1`
Minio	Addon	`RELEASE.2024-12-13T22-19-12Z`	`6.0.4-bb.5`
Minio Operator	Addon	`6.0.4`	`6.0.4-bb.0`
Monitoring	Core	Prometheus `2.54.1` Grafana `11.1.0` Alertmanager `0.27.0`	`62.4.0-bb.1`
Neuvector	Core	`5.4.1`	`2.8.3-bb.0`
Nexus	Addon	`3.75.0-06`	`75.0.0-bb.1`
Promtail	Core	`3.0.0`	`6.16.2-bb.4`
Sonarqube	Addon	`10.6.0-community`	`10.6.1-bb.5` 🔗
Tempo	Core	Tempo `2.5.0` Tempo Query `2.5.0`	`1.11.0-bb.1` 🔗
Thanos	Addon	`0.36.1`	`15.8.1-bb.0`
Twistlock	Core	`33.01.137`	`0.18.0-bb.0`
Vault	Addon	`1.18.3`	`0.29.1-bb.2`
Velero	Addon	`1.15.0`	`8.1.0-bb.0` 🔗
Wrapper	Core	N / A	`0.4.11` 🔗

Changes in 2.44.0📜

Big Bang MRs📜

!5618: #2291 : Remove cmdarg dependency
!5593: update provider input under helmRepositories instead of flux
!5590: Add s3 configuration for Mimir
!5567: Configure Big Bang MinIO for Mimir
!5587: update alloy addon to include helm repoistory

Kiali📜

!5564: Kiali update to 2.2.0-bb.0

# Changelog Updates

## [2.2.0-bb.0] - 2024-12-18
### Changed
- Updated Kiali and Kiali-operator to v2.2.0
- Updated kubectl to v1.30.8

Elasticsearch Kibana📜

!5572: elasticsearchKibana update to 1.24.0-bb.2

# Changelog Updates

## [1.24.0-bb.2] - 2024-12-23
### Changed
- Updated pod templates to include common kubernetes labels
- Rolled back podLabels added as part of 1.18.0-bb.1
- prometheus-elasticsearch-exporter to 6.6.0

Eck Operator📜

!5566: eckOperator update to 2.16.0-bb.0

# Changelog Updates

## [2.16.0-bb.0] - 2024-12-20
### Changed
- eck-operator 2.15.0 -> 2.16.0

Fluentbit📜

!5604: fluentbit update to 0.48.4-bb.0

# Changelog Updates

## [0.48.4-bb.0] - 2025-01-03
### Updated
- Updated fluent-bit: 3.2.2 -> 3.2.4

Loki📜

!5602: loki update to 6.24.0-bb.0

# Changelog Updates

## [6.24.0-bb.0] - 2025-01-02
### Updated
- Updated `loki` from `v3.3.1` -> `v3.3.2`
- Updated `kubectl` from `v1.30.7` -> `v1.30.8`
- Updated `rollout_operator` from `0.20.0` -> `0.21.0`
- Updated `loki-canary` from `3.3.1` -> `3.3.2`
- Updated `k8s-sidecar` from `1.28.0` -> `1.28.4`

Tempo📜

!5596: tempo update to 1.11.0-bb.1

# Changelog Updates

## [1.11.0-bb.1] - 2024-12-18
### Added
- logic to install allow-tempo-ap.yaml if SSO is enabled

Grafana📜

!5599: grafana update to 8.8.2-bb.0

# Changelog Updates

## [8.8.2-bb.0] - 2024-12-24
### Changed
- ironbank/big-bang/grafana/grafana-plugins updated from 11.3.1 to 11.4.0
- ironbank/kiwigrid/k8s-sidecar updated from 1.28.0 to 1.28.4
- ironbank/opensource/bats/bats updated from v1.11.0 to 1.11.1

Wrapper📜

!5574: Updated wrapper version to latest 0.4.11

# Changelog Updates

## [0.4.11] - 2024-12-23
### Changed
- Added helm lookup for allow-all-in-namespace auth policy to ensure it is only installed once per namespace

Gitlab Runner📜

!5582: gitlabRunner update to 0.70.4-bb.1

# Changelog Updates

## [0.70.4-bb.1] - 2024-12-19
### Changed
- Add deploymentLabels (app.kubernetes.io/name and app.kubernetes.io/version) interpolation.

Sonarqube📜

!5601: sonarqube update to 10.6.1-bb.5
!5581: sonarqube update to 10.6.1-bb.4

# Changelog Updates

## [10.6.1-bb.5] - 2024-12-20
### Fixed
- Changed to IB ubi 8.10 image for curlContainerImage as it is more widely accessible
- Updated gluon 0.5.4 -> 0.5.12 to fix pipeline cert issue

## [10.6.1-bb.4] - 2024-12-20
### Fixed
- Password leak in job args when setting password via values.yaml

Velero📜

!5570: velero update to 8.1.0-bb.0

# Changelog Updates

## [8.1.0-bb.0] - 2024-12-12
### Added
- Updated velero to 8.1.0
- Updated registry1.dso.mil/ironbank/opensource/kubernetes/kubectl (source) v1.30.7 -> v1.30.8

Alloy📜

!5575: alloy update to 1.6.16-bb.0
!5571: alloy update to 1.6.15-bb.0

# Changelog Updates

## [1.6.16-bb.0] - 2024-12-24
### Changed
- k8s-monitoring updated from 1.6.15 to 1.6.16

## [1.6.15-bb.0] - 2024-12-19
### Changed
- k8s-monitoring updated from 1.6.13-bb.0 to 1.6.15

Known Issues📜

Kiali - ISSUE
On Kubernetes 1.29+, the kiali operator may fail with a 404 while running the kiali-deploy playbook if the cluster returns the flowcontrol.apiserver.k8s.io/v1beta2 api version (no longer served as of v1.29).

In this case, removing the invalid api version should resolve the issue and allow the kiali operator to run successfully.

$ kubectl delete apiservices.apiregistration.k8s.io v1beta2.flowcontrol.apiserver.k8s.io

Helpful Links📜

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Future📜

Don’t see your feature and/or bug fix? Check out our epics for estimates on when you can expect things to drop, and as always, feel free to comment or create issues if you have questions, comments, or concerns.