v0.18.0

[etcd-druid]

✨ New Features

• [DEVELOPER] Run make ci-e2e-kind to run the e2e tests on local machine (gardener/etcd-druid#547, @abdasgupta)
• [DEVELOPER] Eliminated Role helm charts and converted into Golang component with added unit tests. (gardener/etcd-druid#538, @seshachalam-yv)
• [DEVELOPER] Eliminated RoleBinding helm charts and converted into Golang component with added unit tests. (gardener/etcd-druid#539, @seshachalam-yv)

🐛 Bug Fixes

• [OPERATOR] Added check to ensure that the scale up annotation is removed from the etcd statefulset only when scale-up succeeds (gardener/etcd-druid#587, @ishan16696)

🏃 Others

• [OPERATOR] etcd-custom-image updates from v3.4.13-bootstrap-9 to v3.4.13-bootstrap-10 (gardener/etcd-druid#575, @aaronfern)
• [DEVELOPER] Upgrade to go 1.20.3. (gardener/etcd-druid#579, @shreyas-s-rao)
• [DEVELOPER] Block public access for S3 buckets created by e2e tests. (gardener/etcd-druid#581, @shreyas-s-rao)

[etcd-backup-restore]

🐛 Bug Fixes

• [OPERATOR] Fixes a bug in backup-restore which falsely detects scale-up scenario incase of rolling update of statefulset. (gardener/etcd-backup-restore#614, @ishan16696)

🏃 Others

• [OPERATOR] Base alpine image upgraded from 3.15.7 to 3.15.8 (gardener/etcd-backup-restore#612, @aaronfern)
• [OPERATOR] Add a learner with backoff in case of scale-up feature is triggered. (gardener/etcd-backup-restore#617, @ishan16696)
• [OPERATOR] Added a safety check before adding a learner(non-voting) member in etcd cluster. (gardener/etcd-backup-restore#605, @ishan16696)
• [DEVELOPER] Upgrade to go 1.20.3 (gardener/etcd-backup-restore#613, @shreyas-s-rao)
• [DEVELOPER] Block public access for S3 buckets created by integration tests. (gardener/etcd-backup-restore#615, @shreyas-s-rao)

[etcd-custom-image]

🏃 Others

• [OPERATOR] Base alpine image for etcd-custom-image upgraded from 3.15.7 to 3.15.8 (gardener/etcd-custom-image#32, @aaronfern)