Release Flatcar Container Linux Alpha 3654.0.0, Beta 3602.1.2, Stable 3510.2.4

[sayanchowdhury]

Release Flatcar Container Linux Alpha 3654.0.0, Beta 3602.1.2, Stable 3510.2.4

The release of Flatcar Container Linux of the following version is planned for July 4th, 2023.

• Alpha 3654.0.0
• Beta 3602.1.2
• Stable 3510.2.4

Tasks

• Go / No Go hackmd doc created from previous one for test tracking and release notes: link (@dongsupark )
• Check that the kernel PR are merged for the channel(s) to be released. (@dongsupark )
• All planned changes are merged & blocker bugs are fixed, last nightly reviewed for problems (@dongsupark )
• Branch off main (only new major) (@dongsupark )
• Tag build branch (@dongsupark )
• Start Jenkins builds, post links as comment (@dongsupark)
• Test status captured in hackmd doc (@sayanchowdhury)
• All tests are green (@sayanchowdhury)
• Release notes / announcements added to Go/No Go doc from container/image_changes job by selecting Timestamps: None (@dongsupark )
• QA: check diff for image file list, packages, and image size in the image job output (@dongsupark)
• Matrix Go/No Go meeting (inc. release notes review) (@sayanchowdhury)
• Update payload signed/uploaded (@dongsupark)
• scripts release created on GitHub (@sayanchowdhury)
• Release job container/release ran (@sayanchowdhury)
• Images uploaded with copy-to-origin.sh (@sayanchowdhury)
• Azure offer updated & publishing started (@tormath1)
• Azure Go Live (@tormath1)
• GCP Offer deployment package uploaded to Google bucket and submitted for verification ()
• GCP Offer submit for verification ()
• GCP Offer Publish ()
• For new Stable: Manually run ./azure-sig.sh to create new Shared Community Gallery Images (@pothos)
• For new Stable: build and provide images for supported Cluster API providers (@tormath1 for CAPO: 🌱 ci: bump flatcar to latest stable kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api-provider-openstack#1607)
• Symlink to "current" updated with set-symlink.sh (@sayanchowdhury)
• Website updated with ./update-flatcar-versions.sh and PR merged (@sayanchowdhury)
• Release package published in Nebraska (@dongsupark)
• Send announcement to Mailing Lists (@sayanchowdhury)
• Send Tweet out (@ahrkrak)
• Brief version announcement in slack (k8s slack #flatcar) and the Flatcar matrix channel (@sayanchowdhury)

[dongsupark]

• Alpha 3654.0.0: http://jenkins.infra.kinvolk.io:8080/job/container/job/sdk/896/cldsv/
• Beta 3602.1.2 http://jenkins.infra.kinvolk.io:8080/job/container/job/packages_all_arches/2101/cldsv/
• Stable 3510.2.4 http://jenkins.infra.kinvolk.io:8080/job/container/job/packages_all_arches/2100/cldsv/

[sayanchowdhury]

Flatcar website PR: flatcar/flatcar-website#270

[sayanchowdhury]

Marking the release as Complete 🎉