Observe Only - Kubernetes < 1.25 they will no longer get a validation error at the API server level

[haarchri]

What problem are you facing?

since #672 is merged - we missing some information in readme about this fact:
crossplane/crossplane#3531 (comment)

Once we do this change here for a given resource, Observe Only resources would immediately work without needing all required fields to be provided, whether CEL is available or not. What users with k8s <= 1.24 (without the alpha feature enabled) lose is that when, management policy is not ObserveOnly, they will no longer get a validation error at the API server level, during CR creation when they didn't provide a required field.

This would definitely be a UX degradation; however, it shouldn't be a huge deal assuming the reconciler will report the error from cloud API indicating that a required field is missing.

for example:
AWS EKS - 1.24 end of support in January 2024
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/eks/latest/userguide/kubernetes-versions.html

[turkenh]

@haarchri, thanks for the ticket, and sorry for the inconvenience.

Yes, this is expected behavior.
Would adding this information to the provider readme's and in the release notes for the relevant release be sufficient? Do you have other places in mind?

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