RKE2 - v1.29.0+rke2r1

This release is RKE2's first in the v1.29 line. This release updates Kubernetes to v1.29.0.

Before upgrading from earlier releases, be sure to read the Kubernetes Urgent Upgrade Notes.

Important Notes
* The experimental secrets-encrypt rotate-keys command, used to perform an abbreviated rotation of secrets
encryptions keys, has been removed from this release due to changes in the upstream implementation of
configuration reloading. It will return in a subsequent release; see https://github.com/rancher/rke2/issues/5152
for more information.

Changes since v1.28.4+rke2r1:

• Bump k3s version for v1.29 (#5153)
• Bump k3s and kubernetes versions for v1.29.0 (#5144)
• ⚠️ added support for amazon linux 2023 (#4973) (#4973)
• Bump containerd to v1.7.11 (#5129)
• Bumped containerd/runc to v1.7.10/v1.1.10 (#5117)
• Update stable channel to v1.26.11+rke2r1 (#5099)

Charts Versions

| Component | Version |
| -------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| rke2-cilium | 1.14.400 |
| rke2-canal | v3.26.3-build2023110900 |
| rke2-calico | v3.26.300 |
| rke2-calico-crd | v3.26.300 |
| rke2-coredns | 1.24.007 |
| rke2-ingress-nginx | 4.8.200 |
| rke2-metrics-server | 2.11.100-build2023051511 |
| rancher-vsphere-csi | 3.0.1-rancher101 |
| rancher-vsphere-cpi | 1.5.100 |
| harvester-cloud-provider | 0.2.200 |
| harvester-csi-driver | 0.1.1600 |
| rke2-snapshot-controller | 1.7.202 |
| rke2-snapshot-controller-crd | 1.7.202 |
| rke2-snapshot-validation-webhook | 1.7.302 |

Packaged Component Versions

| Component | Version |
| --------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Kubernetes | v1.29.0 |
| Etcd | v3.5.9-k3s1 |
| Containerd | v1.7.11-k3s1 |
| Runc | v1.1.10 |
| Metrics-server | v0.6.3 |
| CoreDNS | v1.10.1 |
| Ingress-Nginx | nginx-1.9.3-hardened1 |
| Helm-controller | v0.15.4 |

Available CNIs

| Component | Version | FIPS Compliant |
| --------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | -------------- |
| Canal (Default) | Flannel v0.23.0
Calico v3.26.3 | Yes |
| Calico | v3.26.3 | No |
| Cilium | v1.14.4 | No |
| Multus | v4.0.2 | No |

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