Release v0.17.4

[marquiz]

Release Checklist

• Verify that the changelog in this issue is up-to-date
• Run hack/prepare-release.sh $VERSION to turn references to point to the upcoming release
  (README, deployment templates, docs configuration, test/e2e flags), submit a PR against the release branch
• An OWNER prepares a draft release
  • Create a draft release at Github releases page
  • Write the change log into the draft release
  • Upload release artefacts generated by prepare-release.sh script above to the draft release
• An OWNER runs
  git tag -s -m "NFD release $VERSION" $VERSION
• An OWNER runs
  git tag -s -m "NFD API release $VERSION" api/nfd/$VERSION
• An OWNER pushes the tag with
  git push $VERSION api/nfd/$VERSION
  • Triggers prow to build and publish a staging container image
    gcr.io/k8s-staging-nfd/node-feature-discovery:$VERSION
  • Triggers build of the documentation and publish it at
    https://kubernetes-sigs.github.io/node-feature-discovery/0.$MAJ/
• Submit a PR against k8s.io, updating registry.k8s.io/images/k8s-staging-nfd/images.yaml to promote the container images (both "full" and "minimal" variants) to production
• Wait for the PR to be merged and verify that the image (registry.k8s.io/nfd/node-feature-discovery:$VERSION) is available.
• Publish the draft release prepared at the Github releases page
  which will also trigger a Helm repo index update to add the latest release
• Add a link to the tagged release in this issue.
• For a point release of the latest newest release branch, update README in master branch
  • Update references e.g. by running hack/prepare-release.sh $VERSION but only committing README.md, and,
    submit a PR
  • Wait for the PR to be merged
• Close this issue

Changelog

[fmuyassarov]

LGTM