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Welcome to release 5.20.0 of the Grafana Operator!
The biggest new feature is support for service account management using the operator. We also added some other quality of live improvements (like the ability to use latest as a plugin version) and implemented some long overdue bug fixes!
Upgrade instructions
Using Helm
:::sh
# Upgrade the operator image & deployment
helm upgrade -i grafana-operator oci://ghcr.io/grafana/helm-charts/grafana-operator --version v5.20.0
# Upgrading CRDs
kubectl apply --server-side --force-conflicts -f https://github.com/grafana/grafana-operator/releases/download/v5.20.0/crds.yaml
Using kubectl
:::sh
# Namespace Scope
kubectl replace -f https://github.com/grafana/grafana-operator/releases/download/v5.20.0/kustomize-namespace_scoped.yaml
# Cluster Scope
kubectl replace -f https://github.com/grafana/grafana-operator/releases/download/v5.20.0/kustomize-cluster_scoped.yaml
Using kustomize
:::sh
flux pull artifact oci://ghcr.io/grafana/kustomize/grafana-operator:v5.20.0 --output ./grafana-operator/
Using OLM
Releases are published to operatorhub.io as well as the OpenShift Operator Catalog. Depending on the installation, existing installations will either upgrade automatically or require approval from an administrator.
What's Changed
Features
- feat(plugins): add support for latest version, fix version preference for duplicate plugins by @weisdd in https://github.com/grafana/grafana-operator/pull/2158
- Manage Grafana Service Accounts from the Grafana CR by @ndk in https://github.com/grafana/grafana-operator/pull/2125
- feat: added watchers for cm, secrets in datasource_controller by @vignesh-codes in https://github.com/grafana/grafana-operator/pull/2178
- feat: Option to auto-upgrade CRDs with Helm by @denis-ryzhkov in https://github.com/grafana/grafana-operator/pull/2192
- feat: added watchers for cm, secrets in contactpoint_controller by @vignesh-codes in https://github.com/grafana/grafana-operator/pull/2202
- feat: added reconcile logic for secrets in serviceaccount_controller by @vignesh-codes in https://github.com/grafana/grafana-operator/pull/2203
Fixes
- fix(plugins): properly handle version preference in Sanitize, add CRD plugin validations by @weisdd in https://github.com/grafana/grafana-operator/pull/2162
- fix(plugins): ConfigMap key collisions for cross-namespace ds/db/lp with the same names by @weisdd in https://github.com/grafana/grafana-operator/pull/2170
- fix(plugins): remove ConfigMap key if no plugins left by @weisdd in https://github.com/grafana/grafana-operator/pull/2179
- fix(librarypanel): finalize plugins, mitigate HTTP errors for non-existent panels by @weisdd in https://github.com/grafana/grafana-operator/pull/2180
Dependencies
- chore(deps): bump github.com/docker/go-connections from 0.5.0 to 0.6.0 in the gomod group by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/grafana/grafana-operator/pull/2140
- chore(deps): bump actions/download-artifact from 4 to 5 by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/grafana/grafana-operator/pull/2139
- chore(deps): bump the gha group with 2 updates by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/grafana/grafana-operator/pull/2138
- chore(deps): bump actions/create-github-app-token from 2.1.0 to 2.1.1 in the gha group by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/grafana/grafana-operator/pull/2148
- chore(deps): bump the gomod group with 4 updates by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/grafana/grafana-operator/pull/2147
- chore(deps): bump actions/checkout from 4.2.2 to 5.0.0 by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/grafana/grafana-operator/pull/2150
- chore(deps): bump actions/upload-pages-artifact from 3.0.1 to 4.0.0 by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/grafana/grafana-operator/pull/2149
- chore(deps): bump the gomod group with 3 updates by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/grafana/grafana-operator/pull/2155
- chore(deps): bump azure/setup-helm from 4.3.0 to 4.3.1 in the gha group by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/grafana/grafana-operator/pull/2154
- chore(deps): bump aquasecurity/trivy-action from 0.32.0 to 0.33.0 in the gha group by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/grafana/grafana-operator/pull/2164
- chore(deps): bump actions/attest-build-provenance from 2.4.0 to 3.0.0 by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/grafana/grafana-operator/pull/2165
- chore(deps): bump the gomod group with 2 updates by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/grafana/grafana-operator/pull/2181
- chore(deps): bump actions/setup-python from 5.6.0 to 6.0.0 by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/grafana/grafana-operator/pull/2183
- chore(deps): bump the gha group with 2 updates by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/grafana/grafana-operator/pull/2182
- chore(deps): bump actions/labeler from 5.0.0 to 6.0.1 by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/grafana/grafana-operator/pull/2185
- chore(deps): bump actions/stale from 9.1.0 to 10.0.0 by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/grafana/grafana-operator/pull/2186
- chore(deps): bump actions/setup-go from 5.5.0 to 6.0.0 by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/grafana/grafana-operator/pull/2184
- chore(deps): bump the gha group with 2 updates by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/grafana/grafana-operator/pull/2197
- chore(deps): bump the gomod group with 5 updates by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/grafana/grafana-operator/pull/2196
- chore(deps): bump github.com/testcontainers/testcontainers-go from 0.38.0 to 0.39.0 in the gomod group by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/grafana/grafana-operator/pull/2199
- chore(deps): bump the gomod group with 2 updates by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/grafana/grafana-operator/pull/2204
- chore(deps): bump github.com/onsi/ginkgo/v2 from 2.25.3 to 2.26.0 in the gomod group by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/grafana/grafana-operator/pull/2211
- chore(deps): bump the gha group with 4 updates by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/grafana/grafana-operator/pull/2212
- chore(deps): bump the gha group with 2 updates by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/grafana/grafana-operator/pull/2219
- chore(deps): bump sigs.k8s.io/controller-runtime from 0.22.1 to 0.22.3 in the gomod group by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/grafana/grafana-operator/pull/2218
New Contributors
- @ndk made their first contribution in https://github.com/grafana/grafana-operator/pull/2125
- @vignesh-codes made their first contribution in https://github.com/grafana/grafana-operator/pull/2178
- @denis-ryzhkov made their first contribution in https://github.com/grafana/grafana-operator/pull/2192
- @RaviTejaNalluri made their first contribution in https://github.com/grafana/grafana-operator/pull/2173
- @Duologic made their first contribution in https://github.com/grafana/grafana-operator/pull/2205
Full Changelog: https://github.com/grafana/grafana-operator/compare/v5.19.4...v5.20.0
