W2: Cilium 1.17.18->1.18.13 (+GW-API CRDs v1.3.0), Longhorn 1.8->1.9 (pre-k8s-1.33)

Gateway API CRDs bumped v1.2.1->v1.3.0 (required by Cilium 1.18; applied server-side).
Land on current k8s 1.32 before the 1.33 hop.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <[email protected]>

infra/ansible/roles/cilium/defaults/main.yml

@@ -5,14 +5,14 @@
 # (kubeProxyReplacement, k8sServiceHost/Port) are templated from k3s_api_host.
 
 # Pin inside the platform/cilium HelmRelease window (>=1.16.0 <1.17.0).
-cilium_version: "1.17.18"
+cilium_version: "1.18.13"
 cilium_chart_repo_name: "cilium"
 cilium_chart_repo_url: "https://helm.cilium.io/"
 cilium_namespace: "kube-system"
 
 # Gateway API CRDs (standard channel) must exist BEFORE Cilium with gatewayAPI.enabled.
 # Cilium 1.16 targets Gateway API v1.2.x.
-gateway_api_version: "v1.2.1"
+gateway_api_version: "v1.3.0"
 gateway_api_crd_urls:
   - "https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/gateway-api/releases/download/{{ gateway_api_version }}/standard-install.yaml"
   # TLSRoute (experimental) is required by Cilium's Gateway API support.

platform/cilium/helmrelease.yaml

@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ spec:
       chart: cilium
       # [parity] Pinned to the exact version the Ansible bootstrap installs
       # (cilium_version in roles/cilium/defaults/main.yml). Renovate bumps both together.
-      version: "1.17.18"
+      version: "1.18.13"
       sourceRef:
         kind: HelmRepository
         name: cilium

platform/longhorn/helmrelease.yaml

@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ spec:
   chart:
     spec:
       chart: longhorn
-      version: ">=1.8.0 <1.9.0"   # W1 upgrade 1.7->1.8 (resolves 1.8.2; avoid buggy 1.8.0). Renovate maintains
+      version: ">=1.9.0 <1.10.0"   # W2 upgrade 1.8->1.9 (resolves 1.9.2). Renovate maintains
       sourceRef:
         kind: HelmRepository
         name: longhorn