v1.38.0: Slurm GCP v6 for a3-highgpu-8g and added ability to disable automatic updates

What's Changed

Key New Features 🎉

• Add Slurm-GCP v6 based solution for provisioning a3-highgpu-8g compute nodes by @tpdownes in #2859
• Add allow_automatic_updates flag by @rohitramu in #2778
• Update slurm-gcp module to use custom endpoints. by @cdunbar13 in #2653
• Add local ssd RAID0 startup script by @alyssa-sm in #2720

New Modules 🧱

• Move GKE Modules to Core by @chengcongdu in #2758

Module Improvements 🔨

• Move slurm_files to the repo. by @mr0re1 in #2739
• Fix cleanup compute for different versions of gcloud by @cdunbar13 in #2794
• change default disk_type for GKE nodepool to null by @chengcongdu in #2818
• Add instance_properties var to nodeset by @mr0re1 in #2843
• Enable local SSD formatting solution to set POSIX permissions by @tpdownes in #2863
• support for min_cpu_platform usage on vm-instance by @RachaelSTamakloe in #2873

Improvements 🛠

• Gke optional accelerator by @ankitkinra in #2736
• add test for gke n2 pool with default driver by @chengcongdu in #2811
• Update local ssd examples to use local ssd startup solution by @alyssa-sm in #2870
• Update a3-megagpu-8 example to use local ssd solution by @alyssa-sm in #2871

Deprecations 💤

• Deprecate enable_devel by @mr0re1 in #2764

Version Updates ⏫

• Update to SlurmGCP 6.6.0 by @mr0re1 in #2830
• SlurmGCP move to 5.12 by @mr0re1 in #2848

Bug fixes 🐞

• Fix construction of cloud.conf by @mr0re1 in #2810
• SlurmGCP. Fix broken --trace-api flag. by @mr0re1 in #2817
• SlurmGCP6. Fix nodes stack in down* state. by @mr0re1 in #2856
• SlurmGCP. Fix bugs around nodeset zones by @mr0re1 in #2864
• Roll back changes in go.mod to release v1.37.2 by @nick-stroud in #2934

New Contributors

• @chengcongdu made their first contribution in #2758
• @ctk21 made their first contribution in #2761
• @arajmane-g made their first contribution in #2854

Full Changelog: v1.37.2...v1.38.0