Consul k8s - v1.2.0-rc1

1.2.0-rc1 (June 12, 2023)

SECURITY:

• Bump Dockerfile base image to alpine:3.18. Resolves CVE-2023-2650 vulnerability in openssl@3.0.8-r4 [GH-2284]
• Fix Prometheus CVEs by bumping controller-runtime. [GH-2183]
• Upgrade to use Go 1.20.4. This resolves vulnerabilities CVE-2023-24537(go/scanner), CVE-2023-24538(html/template),
  CVE-2023-24534(net/textproto) and CVE-2023-24536(mime/multipart). Also, golang.org/x/net has been updated to v0.7.0 to resolve CVEs CVE-2022-41721, CVE-2022-27664 and CVE-2022-41723 [GH-2102]

FEATURES:

• Add support for configuring Consul server-side rate limiting [GH-2166]
• api-gateway: Add API Gateway for Consul on Kubernetes leveraging Consul native API Gateway configuration. [GH-2152]
• crd: Add mutualTLSMode to the ProxyDefaults and ServiceDefaults CRDs and allowEnablingPermissiveMutualTLS to the Mesh CRD to support configuring permissive mutual TLS. [GH-2100]
• helm: Add JWTProvider CRD for configuring the jwt-provider config entry. [GH-2209]
• helm: Update the ServiceIntentions CRD to support JWT fields. [GH-2213]

IMPROVEMENTS:

• cli: update minimum go version for project to 1.20. [GH-2102]
• control-plane: add FIPS support [GH-2165]
• control-plane: server ACL Init always appends both, the secrets from the serviceAccount's secretRefs and the one created by the Helm chart, to support Openshift secret handling. [GH-1770]
• control-plane: set agent localities on Consul servers to the server node's topology.kubernetes.io/region label. [GH-2093]
• control-plane: update alpine to 3.17 in the Docker image. [GH-1934]
• control-plane: update minimum go version for project to 1.20. [GH-2102]
• helm: Kubernetes v1.27 is now supported. Minimum tested version of Kubernetes is now v1.24. [GH-2304]
• helm: Update the default amount of memory used by the connect-inject controller so that its less likely to get OOM killed. [GH-2249]
• helm: add failover policy field to service resolver and proxy default CRDs [GH-2030]
• helm: add samenessGroup CRD [GH-2048]
• helm: add samenessGroup field to exported services CRD [GH-2075]
• helm: add samenessGroup field to service resolver CRD [GH-2086]
• helm: add samenessGroup field to source intention CRD [GH-2097]
• helm: update imageConsulDataplane value to hashicorp/consul-dataplane:1.1.0. [GH-1953]

BUG FIXES:

• control-plane: Fix casing of the Enforce Consecutive 5xx field on Service Defaults and acceptance test fixtures. [GH-2266]
• control-plane: fix issue where consul-connect-injector acl token was unintentionally being deleted and not recreated when a container was restarted due to a livenessProbe failure. [GH-1914]