Inject CPI image tag into manifest

ansible/roles/assets/tasks/manifests.yml

@@ -73,6 +73,12 @@
   delay: 5
   until: clusterapi_manifests is not failed
 
+- name: Update cluster-template with image tags
+  ansible.builtin.replace:
+    dest: infrastructure-vsphere/{{ components.clusterapi.management.version.infrastructure_vsphere }}/cluster-template.yaml
+    regexp: ':\${CPI_IMAGE_K8S_VERSION}'
+    replace: ":{{ components.clusterapi.management.version.cpi_vsphere }}"
+
 - name: Download kube-vip RBAC manifest
   ansible.builtin.get_url:
     url: https://kube-vip.io/manifests/rbac.yaml

ansible/vars/metacluster.yml

@@ -90,6 +90,8 @@ components:
         cert_manager: v1.11.0
         infrastructure_vsphere: v1.6.0
         ipam_incluster: v0.1.0-alpha.2
+        # Refer to `https://console.cloud.google.com/gcr/images/cloud-provider-vsphere/GLOBAL/cpi/release/manager` for available tags
+        cpi_vsphere: v1.26.0
     workload:
       version:
         calico: v3.25.0