build(deps): bump sigs.k8s.io/cluster-api-provider-azure from 1.17.1 to 1.18.0

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Bumps sigs.k8s.io/cluster-api-provider-azure from 1.17.1 to 1.18.0.

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v1.18.0

Changes by Kind

Feature

• Add new flavor flatcar-sysext for Flatcar Container Linux cluster deployments. (#4575, @​sayanchowdhury)
• Allows Service Principal with Certificate authentication to work with a path to the certificate. (#5200, @​bryan-cox)
• CAPZ now caches credentials to reduce the number of authentication requests it makes to Entra (#5283, @​nojnhuh)
• Enable Tilt development for apiserver-ilb templates (#5288, @​nawazkh)
• Enable the use of an external control plane (#4611, @​rpahli)
• Feat APIServerILB: create ILB when feature flag APIServerILB is enabled (#5311, @​nawazkh)
• Feat APIServerILB: private IP of the internal LB can be customized (#5332, @​nawazkh)
• Private IP of the Internal LB of the API Server will be configurable (#5274, @​nawazkh)
• Use community gallery for default VM images (#5167, @​mboersma)
• Use internal LB's IP for intra-node communication (#5209, @​nawazkh)

Documentation

• Added docs describing how to migrate existing AKS clusters managed by CAPZ to the new ASO-based API (#5305, @​nojnhuh)
• Overhaul Quickstart UX using AzureASOManagedCluster (#5319, @​willie-yao)

Failing Test

• Bump CAPI to v1.8.8 (#5371, @​willie-yao)
• Custom build templates to use curl when az login fails (#5109, @​nawazkh)
• Default to Marketplace images for old Kubernetes versions (#5266, @​mboersma)

Bug or Regression

• Refactor(manager): set machinepool true as default (#5146, @​KOREAN139)
• AKS extensions removed from an AzureManagedControlPlane's spec.extensions will now be deleted. (#5139, @​nojnhuh)
• Fixed a bug preventing Cluster API from authenticating to ASOAPI Managed Clusters with local accounts disabled. (#5211, @​nojnhuh)
• Fixed an issue where CAPZ was accumulating memory over time that could never be garbage collected. (#5284, @​nojnhuh)
• Improves MachinePool scale up/down to avoid unnecessary VMSS VM model updates (#5164, @​mweibel)
• Improves state update handling when running long operations on VMSS (#5292, @​mweibel)
• Moves webhook registration behind feature gate flags like controller registration already does. (#5099, @​bryan-cox)
• Perform nil check on private lb (#5378, @​nawazkh)

Other (Cleanup or Flake)

• Bump CAPI to v1.8.4 (#5186, @​mboersma)
• Bump CAPI to v1.8.5 (#5255, @​mboersma)
• Bump CAPI to v1.9.4 (#5316, @​mboersma)
• CAPZ now installs Azure Service Operator v2.9.0. (#5170, @​nojnhuh)
• Removes default values previously set in webhooks and adds the default values directly in the API through the kubebuilder annotation, kubebuilder:default. (#5111, @​bryan-cox)
• Update Golangci-lint to v1.60.2 and add golangci-lint PR GitHub workflow (#5158, @​nawazkh)
• Update pre-commit hooks (#5213, @​nawazkh)
• Update self-managed templates to use internal LB for node-to-node communication (#5210, @​nawazkh)
• Use regular Flatcar images from Azure marketplace for flatcar-sysext template (#5263, @​tormath1)

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Commits

• 1957fc6 Merge pull request #5395 from willie-yao/changelog-v1.18.0
• ce2dbec Add changelog for v1.18.0
• 4b545d2 Merge pull request #5394 from willie-yao/add-1.18-metadata
• c7adf26 Add release 1.18 to metadata.yaml
• 2329218 Merge pull request #5390 from nawazkh/fix_Project_file
• a7b9fe9 Merge pull request #5393 from mboersma/bump-go-compiler
• 268808b Bump go to v1.22.11
• afa0bbe Merge pull request #5389 from kubernetes-sigs/dependabot/go_modules/hack/tool...
• aac663c Merge pull request #5316 from mboersma/bump-capi-one-nine-zero
• ebf4bd4 Bump CAPI to v1.9.4
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