v1.44.0: Future Reservations in Slurm, Topology Aware GKE, Expanded GPU RDMA Support

What's Changed

Key New Features 🎉

• update terraform provider to 6.12.0 by @ighosh98 in #3356
• Add future reservation support by @abbas1902 in #3227
• Update terraform provider to 6.13.0 by @alyssa-sm in #3367
• GKE clusters can now be duplicated by changing only the deployment name by @annuay-google in #3322
• GPU-VPC module by @cdunbar13 in #3391

Module Improvements 🔨

• Add dynamic setup of gpu_limit in gke-job-template module by @mohitchaurasia91 in #3319
• Add reservations to vm-instance by @cdunbar13 in #3327
• Revert "integrate tas plugin bug fixes" by @ighosh98 in #3344
• Add change to conditionally perform pip install based on gke_node_pool machine_type by @mohitchaurasia91 in #3341
• Update gke-cluster module addon-config for enabling parallelstrore csi driver by @mohitchaurasia91 in #3357
• make upgrade settings configurable by @ighosh98 in #3359
• gke v1.31 added to acceptable list for a3-mega by @sharabiani in #3388
• An option added to disable/enable workload script execution by @sharabiani in #3389
• Adding network_profile to the VPC modules by @cdunbar13 in #3387
• TopologyAwareScheduling enabled by default for Kueue v0.9.1 by @sharabiani in #3396

Improvements 🛠

• Implemented kueue tests by @ighosh98 in #3315
• add support for kueue v0.9.1 by @ighosh98 in #3321
• Bump jobset version to 0.7.1 by @annuay-google in #3318
• Update custom TAS scripts to support A3U by @ighosh98 in #3295
• integrate tas plugin bug fixes by @ighosh98 in #3339
• Add multi-mount parallelstore support by @harshthakkar01 in #3256
• Update image-builder.yaml link in README by @ighosh98 in #3373
• Update OpenFOAM tutorial by @wkharold in #3342
• [Cherry Pick] add reservations for kueue integration tests by @ighosh98 in #3431
• [Cherry Pick] Update README and related test setup for GKE managed parallelstore blueprint by @mohitchaurasia91 in #3437

Version Updates ⏫

• Promote the new nic-types in vm-instance by @cdunbar13 in #3288

Bug fixes 🐞

• Fix default ssd config to ephemeral storage by @ankitkinra in #3317
• Set 'enable_private_endpoint' to false by @pawloch00 in #3364

Full Changelog: v1.43.1...v1.44.0