One more ceph-csi release ? Yeah, v2.1.0 is here!

The Ceph-CSI team is excited that it has reached the next milestone with the release of v2.1.0! [1] This is another great release with many improvements for Ceph and CSI integration to use in production with Kubernetes/openshift clusters. Of all the many features and bug fixes here are just a few of the highlights.

Release Issue # https://github.com/ceph/ceph-csi/issues/816


# Changelog or Highlights:

## Features:
Add support for rbd static PVC
Move cephfs subvolume support from `Alpha` to `Beta`.
Added support for rbd topology-based provisioning.
Support externally managed configmap.
Updated Base image to ceph Octopus
Added csiImageKey to keep track of the image name in RADOS omap
Added E2E for helm charts
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## Enhancements:
Implement CreateVolume with go-ceph which boosts performance.
Migrated from `dep` to `go modules`
Updated Kubernetes version to v1.18.0
Updated golang version to 1.13.9
Updated Kubernetes sidecar containers to latest version
E2E: Add Ability to test with non root user
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## Bug Fixes:
Log an error message if cephfs mounter fails during init
Aligned with klog standards for logging
Added support in to run E2E in a different namespace
Removed cache functionality for cephfs plugin restart
rbd: fallback to inline image deletion if adding it as a task fails
code cleanup for static errors and unwanted code blocks
Fix mountoption issue in rbd
travis: re-enable running on arm64
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## Deprecated:
GRPC metrics in cephcsi

## Documentation:
Added Document to cleanup stale resources
Updated ceph-csi support matrix
dev-guide: add reference to required go-ceph dependencies
Update upgrade doc for node hang issue
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Many other bug fixes, code improvements, README updates are also part of this release. The container image is tagged with “v2.1.0” and its downloadable by #docker pull quay.io/cephcsi/cephcsi:v2.1.0

Kudos to the Ceph CSI community for all the hard work to reach this critical milestone!
The Ceph-CSI project ( https://github.com/ceph/ceph-csi/), as well as its thriving community, has continued to grow and we are happy to share that, this is our 7th release since Jul 12, 2019!!

Happy Hacking!

Release Issue #
https://github.com/ceph/ceph-csi/issues/806
[1] https://github.com/ceph/ceph-csi/releases/tag/v2.1.0

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