Christian Schlotter

Govmomi v0.36.1 got released. So bumping to that version should bring in support for sha256 thumbprints.

Documented sha256 and using it in code now since merging: - #3076 However, not yet using it completely in CI, because it would currently break old CAPV branches and also...

/close This is done and CI still green

I think this makes sense. This does not need an additional implementation for vm operator mode. VM operator mode seems to already support it via `VirtualMachineClass`: https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/vm-operator/blob/main/api/v1alpha1/virtualmachineclass_types.go#L23

> Thanks for the follow up, @fabriziopandini you mentioned handling unreachable cluster "gracefully" in the machinePool, Would you elaborate more. Cause I was thinking that we should have unreachable state...

I think this one goes into a different direction then described in: * https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api/issues/10544#issuecomment-2090384205 and * https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api/issues/10544#issuecomment-2095356357 /hold

/retitle ✨ MachinePools: Use NodeDeletionTimeout and default it to 10s /approve /hold cancel

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I did hit this issue in a local setup. However, its quite hard to triage, because the machine already got replaced by a new one (I guess because of MHC...

I was able to hit it again and triage a bit. It turns out that the node itself came up, except the parts which try to hit the load balanced...