Online Boutique v0.5.0 is out. We’ve bumped the minor version (from v0.4.2 to v0.5.0) because Online Boutique now supports Online Boutique's default and advanced deployments via Helm.

Notable Changes

• You can now use Helm to deploy Online Boutique, with advanced deployment variations. For more info, check out helm-chart/README.md or read Use Helm to simplify and secure the deployment of Online Boutique, with Service Mesh, GitOps, and more!. Thank you, @mathieu-benoit, for implementing!
• Online Boutique can now be run on a IPv6-only Kubernetes environment. Thank you, @naoki9911, for rigorously testing and thank you, @mathieu-benoit, for the implementation!
• The guidance for external contributors has been updated. Please see CONTRIBUTING.md.
• Google Cloud Debugger support has been removed.

What's Changed

• Online Boutique's Helm chart by @mathieu-benoit in #1353
• More Online Boutique variations / Kustomize components by @mathieu-benoit in #1346
• IPv6 support by @mathieu-benoit in #1340
• make recommendation service optional by @katzio in #1332
• Update guidance for contributors by @NimJay in #1301
• Python 3.10 by @mathieu-benoit in #1316
• Remove Google Cloud Debugger by @NimJay in #1281
• Use digest instead of tag for container base images by @mathieu-benoit in #1312
• Clarify product-requirements.md by @NimJay in #1309
• Remove latest tag by @vaishnavi-ramanujapuram in #1394
• Vary Cymbal buttons' style based on state by @NimJay in #1304
• Use --pull flag when building images for releases by @NimJay in #1293
• Remove redundant COLLECTOR_SERVICE_ADDR by @NimJay in #1294
• Change colour of logo from Cyan to Maroon by @NimJay in #1303
• Renovate for container images in Kubernetes manifests by @mathieu-benoit in #1310
• Renovate: update VERSION in Dockerfile vars by @mathieu-benoit in #1311
• fix: Deploystack test enable test proejcts by @tpryan in #1367
• adservice - Java 19 by @mathieu-benoit in #1132
• Update GitHub action setup-dotnet@v3 in CIs by @mathieu-benoit in #1120
• Update renovate.json for Kubernetes manifests (ignorePaths) by @mathieu-benoit in #1321
• Update renovate.json - test ignorePaths for pinDigests by @mathieu-benoit in #1322
• Fix Helm chart with advanced scenarios by @mathieu-benoit in #1385
• loadgenerator - Python 3.11 by @mathieu-benoit in #1320
• Update renovate.json - to avoid too much digests in manifests by @mathieu-benoit in #1325
• Specify name of kustomize-build-ci job by @NimJay in #1338
• Remove kustomization Kind in release/kubernetes-manifests.yaml in main branch by @mathieu-benoit in #1349
• More docs by @mathieu-benoit in #1393
• Use strings for severity of currencyservice log output by @NimJay in #1344
• many dependency updates via @renovate-bot. Examples: #1391,#1307, #1354 https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/microservices-demo/pull/1308

New Contributors

• @katzio made their first contribution in #1332
• @vaishnavi-ramanujapuram made their first contribution in #1394

Full Changelog: https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/microservices-demo/compare/v0.4.2...v0.5.0