…Version / Datacenter into release/1.15.x (#18639)

* Reference hashicorp/consul instead of consul for Docker image (#17914)

* Reference hashicorp/consul instead of consul for Docker image

* Update Make targets that pull consul directly

* Update Consul K8s Upgrade Doc Updates (#17921)

Updating upgrade procedures to encompass expected errors during upgrade process from v1.13.x to v1.14.x.

* Update sameness-group.mdx (#17915)

* Update create-sameness-groups.mdx (#17927)

* deps: coredns v1.10.1 (#17912)

* Ensure RSA keys are at least 2048 bits in length (#17911)

* Ensure RSA keys are at least 2048 bits in length

* Add changelog

* update key length check for FIPS compliance

* Fix no new variables error and failing to return when error exists from
validating

* clean up code for better readability

* actually return value

* tlsutil: Fix check TLS configuration (#17481)

* tlsutil: Fix check TLS configuration
* Rewording docs.
* Update website/content/docs/services/configuration/checks-configuration-reference.mdx
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* Fix typos and add changelog entry.
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* docs: Deprecations for connect-native SDK and specific connect native APIs (#17937)

* Update v1_16_x.mdx
* Update connect native golang page

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* Revert "Add workflow to verify linux release packages (#17904)" (#17942)

This reverts commit 3368f14fab500ebe9f6aeab5631dd1d5f5a453e5.

* Fixes Secondary ConnectCA update (#17846)

This fixes a bug that was identified which resulted in subsequent
ConnectCA configuration update not to persist in the cluster.

* fixing typo in link to jwt-validations-with-intentions doc (#17955)

* Fix streaming backend link (#17958)

* Fix streaming backend link
* Update health.mdx

* Dynamically create jwks clusters for jwt-providers (#17944)

* website: remove deprecated agent rpc docs (#17962)

* Fix missing BalanceOutboundConnections in v2 catalog. (#17964)

* feature - [NET - 4005]  - [Supportability] Reloadable Configuration - enable_debug (#17565)

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* parent 10f500e895d92cc3691ade7b74a33db755d22039
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init without tests

change log

fix tests

fix tests

added tests

change log breaking change

removed breaking change

fix test

keeping the test behaviour same

made enable debug atomic bool

fix lint

fix test true enable debug

using enable debug in agent as atomic bool

test fixes

fix tests

fix tests

added update on correct locaiton

fix tests

fix reloadable config enable debug

fix tests

fix init and acl 403

* revert commit

* Fix formatting codeblocks on APIgw docs (#17970)

* fix formatting codeblocks

* remove unnecessary indents

* Remove POC code (#17974)

* update doc (#17910)

* update doc

* update link

* Remove duplicate and unused newDecodeConfigEntry func (#17979)

* docs: samenessGroup YAML examples (#17984)

* configuration entry syntax

* Example config

* Add changelog entry for 1.16.0 (#17987)

* Fix typo (#17198)

servcies => services

* Expose JWKS cluster config through JWTProviderConfigEntry (#17978)

* Expose JWKS cluster config through JWTProviderConfigEntry

* fix typos, rename trustedCa to trustedCA

* Integration test for ext-authz Envoy extension (#17980)

* Fix incorrect protocol for transparent proxy upstreams. (#17894)

This PR fixes a bug that was introduced in:
https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/16021

A user setting a protocol in proxy-defaults would cause tproxy implicit
upstreams to not honor the upstream service's protocol set in its
`ServiceDefaults.Protocol` field, and would instead always use the
proxy-defaults value.

Due to the fact that upstreams configured with "tcp" can successfully contact
upstream "http" services, this issue was not recognized until recently (a
proxy-defaults with "tcp" and a listening service with "http" would make
successful requests, but not the opposite).

As a temporary work-around, users experiencing this issue can explicitly set
the protocol on the `ServiceDefaults.UpstreamConfig.Overrides`, which should
take precedence.

The fix in this PR removes the proxy-defaults protocol from the wildcard
upstream that tproxy uses to configure implicit upstreams. When the protocol
was included, it would always overwrite the value during discovery chain
compilation, which was not correct. The discovery chain compiler also consumes
proxy defaults to determine the protocol, so simply excluding it from the
wildcard upstream config map resolves the issue.

* feat: include nodes count in operator usage endpoint and cli command (#17939)

* feat: update operator usage api endpoint to include nodes count

* feat: update operator usange cli command to includes nodes count

* [OSS] Improve Gateway Test Coverage of Catalog Health (#18011)

* fix(cli): remove failing check from 'connect envoy' registration for api gateway

* test(integration): add tests to check catalog statsus of gateways on startup

* remove extra sleep comment

* Update test/integration/consul-container/libs/assert/service.go

* changelog

* Fixes Traffic rate limitting docs (#17997)

* Fix removed service-to-service peering links (#17221)

* docs: fix removed service-to-service peering links

* docs: extend peering-via-mesh-gateways intro (thanks @trujillo-adam)

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* docs: Sameness "beta" warning (#18017)

* Warning updates

* .x

* updated typo in tab heading (#18022)

* updated typo in tab heading

* updated tab group typo, too

* Document that DNS lookups can target cluster peers (#17990)

Static DNS lookups, in addition to explicitly targeting a datacenter,
can target a cluster peer. This was added in 95dc0c7b301b70a6b955a8b7c9737c9b86f03df6 but didn't make the documentation.

The driving function for the change is `parseLocality` here: https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/blob/0b1299c28d8127129d61310ee4280055298438e0/agent/dns_oss.go#L25

The biggest change in this is to adjust the standard lookup syntax to tie
`.<datacenter>` to `.dc` as required-together, and to append in the similar `.<cluster-peer>.peer` optional argumen