Release version 5.1.0 with all changes in master since 5.0.0 and #800

[yurnov]

As Ansible 11 was released and included kubernetes.core collections 5.0.0 means that branch stable-5 become the default one for the most of users who install ansible comunity package as pip install ansible, and documentation from the branch stable-5 (more specifically, to the released versions 5.x.y from that branch) appeared in the ansible documentation site.

However, since Jun 10 when 5.0.0 was released, we have had a lot of smaller and bigger changes that are not included in any released version of the collection kubernetes.core, and some of them have even not been cherry-picked to the stable-5 branch, which led, for the example that ansible galaxy contains deprecated communication channels.

So, it's time to release a new release from the branch stable-5 (that should be 5.1.0) and, probably stable-3 (that should be 3.2.0 in this case) but it's less important.

SUMMARY

Release a new version 5.1.0

To do that, some PRs that weren't cherry-picked to stable-5 should be merged in that branch (label backport-5 to be added):

• Doc: update changelog with release 3.2.0 #750
• fix shields.io badges in README.md #749
• Fix waiting for daemonset when desired number of pods is 0 #756
• Bump the ansible-lint version to 24.7.0 #765 (optional, it can be skipped as it does not affect final build, however, it is nice to have for consistency between branches)
• Update Readme to match the template #767
• README: Add Communication section with Forum information #774
• CONTRIBUTING.md remove IRC #778
• Make k8s_drain work when only one pod is present #770
• Update README.md with removing outdated communication channels #790
• Remove kubevirt integration test workflow #806

The listed PRs are merged to main but don't have the label backport-5 and are missed in branch stable-5.

It will be nice to add, on the top of above, PRs that is a fully ready, and passed CI testing, so, it will be nice to review and merge (with backport-5 label) following PRs:

• helm_registry_auth module to authenticate in OCI registry #800 (this one is important for me, I have it already in my staging environment but want to switch to officially released version)
• add reset_then_reuse_values support to helm module #802
• helm_pull: Silence false no_log warning #796
• k8s_cluster_info.py Add warn for resorce missing kind field #795 (comments from @gravesm should be considered)
• Add support of local environment variables in kustomize lookup plugin #786

Other PRs should be checked as they were relatively old.

Maintainers can consider releases from both, stable-3 and stable-5 branches, in this case, it's better to have 3.3.0 and then 5.1.0, but I don't see a reason for release 3.3.0 as ansible-core versions 2.14 and 2.15 is not maintained anymore. However, the previous release of Ansible community package (Ansible 10) included 3.x.y version of the collection which meant that the release branch stable-3 should be kept maintained.

ISSUE TYPE

• Feature Idea

COMPONENT NAME

kubernetes.core

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

I can help with PR for the release (similar to #746), but I haven't rights to place labels (which means that I can't trigger CI job for cherry-pic), and action from maintainers is required.

[yurnov]

Backport of #767 to stable-3 created as #822 due to merge conflict resolved manually

[yurnov]

backport of #774 to stable-5 created as #823 due to patchback bot fail