Cut v1.29.0-rc.2 release about sig-release

[xmudrii]

Testgrid dashboards for master

Boards checked for FAILING:

• sig-release-master-blocking
• sig-release-master-informing

No FAILING Jobs

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[xmudrii]

Testgrid dashboards for 1.29

Boards checked for FAILING:

• sig-release-1.29-blocking
• sig-release-1.29-informing

No FAILING Jobs

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[saschagrunert]

Doing a performance benchmark for the release cut, here are the results:

Step	Duration	Notes
Issue creation, testgrid shots, slack announcement	5min
Mock stage	1h 10min
Mock release	20min
NoMock stage (building release)	1h 12min
NoMock stage (building packages)	+4h	Waiting for packages to be published timed out and took hours after the step
Image promotion (time to merge)	4h	Handover between timezones
Image promotion (waiting for job)	5min	Was the only job in the merge queue
Image promotion (job duration)	33min	Failed on signature replication because of too many requests
NoMock release	20min

[marosset]

Image promo job kubernetes/k8s.io#6174

[xmudrii]

The release is out. 🎉
/close

[k8s-ci-robot]

@xmudrii: Closing this issue.

In response to this:

The release is out. 🎉
/close

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