v1.45.0

[gardener/machine-controller-manager-provider-azure]

📰 Noteworthy

• [USER] The cloud instance to connect to can now be configured via the provider spec by @AndreasBurger [gardener/machine-controller-manager-provider-azure#148]

🏃 Others

• [USER] Machine-Controller-Manager Provider-Azure now supports enabling of vm boot diagnostics. by @hebelsan [gardener/machine-controller-manager-provider-azure#136]
• [USER] Add support for ConfidentialVM types in Azure. by @kon-angelo [gardener/machine-controller-manager-provider-azure#146]
• [USER] Error Code is now extracted from azcore.ResponseError.ErrorCode by @rishabh-11 [gardener/machine-controller-manager-provider-azure#153]
• [USER] Fix passing data disk caching method by @hebelsan [gardener/machine-controller-manager-provider-azure#149]
• [DEVELOPER] Removed vendor directory by @rishabh-11 [gardener/machine-controller-manager-provider-azure#140]
• [DEVELOPER] Switch AzureDataDisk.Lun from pointer to value by @hebelsan [gardener/machine-controller-manager-provider-azure#150]

[gardener/gardener-extension-provider-azure]

✨ New Features

• [USER] Extension-Provider-Azure now supports enabling of vm boot diagnostics in the worker providerConfig. by @hebelsan [#808]

🏃 Others

• [OPERATOR] Add support for confidential VMs by @kon-angelo [#835]
• [OPERATOR] The CIDR blocks used for shoot egress will now be provided via the status of the shoot's infrastructure-resource by @AndreasBurger [#852]
• [OPERATOR] OverconstrainedZonalAllocationRequest is now classified as ERR_RETRYABLE_CONFIGURATION_PROBLEM by @Kostov6 [#881]
• [OPERATOR] Improve flow shoot deletion with custom vnet by @hebelsan [#896]
• [OPERATOR] A problem with deploying MachineClasses that reference an operating system image whose version contains a + character was fixed. by @AndreasBurger [#898]

[gardener/machine-controller-manager]

⚠️ Breaking Changes

• [DEVELOPER] New provider method Driver.InitializeMachine added for Post-Creation VM Instance Initialization steps. by @elankath [gardener/machine-controller-manager#898]

🏃 Others

• [OPERATOR] Updated k8s dependencies to v0.29.3 by @rishabh-11 [gardener/machine-controller-manager#907]
• [OPERATOR] Removed vendor directory by @rishabh-11 [gardener/machine-controller-manager#903]

Docker Images

• gardener-extension-admission-azure: europe-docker.pkg.dev/gardener-project/releases/gardener/extensions/admission-azure:v1.45.0
• gardener-extension-provider-azure: europe-docker.pkg.dev/gardener-project/releases/gardener/extensions/provider-azure:v1.45.0