How to override MachineController version?

[syphernl]

I recently added new functionality to MachineController, which got released last month in MC v1.63.0.

I expected this to be included in KubeOne by now, but it looks like the v1.11.x branch only receives fixes, not new features.
With some luck, the change could land in KubeOne 1.12, scheduled for November 13. Unfortunately, we need this functionality in our cluster sooner.

From what I can tell, the MC image versions are hardcoded in pkg/templates/images/images.go.
Is there a way to override this version so we can run the v1.63.x release of MC with our current KubeOne setup instead of the v1.62.x release that is currently included?

It seems I could probably copy over https://github.com/kubermatic/kubeone/blob/main/addons/machinecontroller/ and replace https://github.com/kubermatic/kubeone/blob/main/addons/machinecontroller/deployment-controller.yaml#L41 with the desired version?

[kron4eg]

Yeah, the standard way would be to make an addon copy with own images. This is normal.

[syphernl]

Works like a charm!
Was hoping to do it with Kustomize to make it more clean (which is being done by many other addons as well) but it complained that the YAML was not valid (probably due to the .InternalImages.Get part) so just went with a copy of the directory with replaced image values.