VPA release 1.5.0

[kamarabbas99]

Please follow instructions in
RELEASE.md and note each
completed step on this issue.

[kamarabbas99]

The tests suites have ran and are reporting healthy on the last commit.

[kamarabbas99]

Branch created - https://github.com/kubernetes/autoscaler/tree/vpa-release-1.5

[kamarabbas99]

export BUILD_TAG=v20250906-cluster-autoscaler-chart-9.50.1-34-g45d513d8e
export TAG=1.5.0
./hack/tag-release.sh

Adding tag 1.5.0 based on built tag v20250906-cluster-autoscaler-chart-9.50.1-34-g45d513d8e
Press enter to continue
ERROR: Error during upload of: gcr.io/k8s-staging-autoscaling/vpa-admission-controller:1.5.0
ERROR: (gcloud.container.images.add-tag) Access denied: response: {'content-type': 'application/json; charset=utf-8', 'docker-distribution-api-version': 'registry/2.0', 'x-content-type-options': 'nosniff', 'x-frame-options': 'SAMEORIGIN', 'x-xss-protection': '0', 'date': 'Mon, 08 Sep 2025 00:57:07 GMT', 'x-gcr-using-artifact-registry': 'true', 'content-encoding': 'gzip', 'server': 'Docker Registry', 'transfer-encoding': 'chunked', 'status': 403}
Permission "artifactregistry.repositories.uploadArtifacts" denied on resource "projects/k8s-staging-autoscaling/locations/us/repositories/gcr.io" (or it may not exist): None

Missing Permission..

[kamarabbas99]

/area vertical-pod-autoscaler

[kamarabbas99]

/assign @kamarabbas99

[kamarabbas99]

Hey @jackfrancis can you please help run this script?

[adrianmoisey]

Hey @kubernetes/sig-autoscaling-leads
I believe that Jack is out. Is anyone able to help out here?

[raywainman]

@kamarabbas99 you can add yourself here to get access: https://github.com/kubernetes/k8s.io/blob/df8ee804f49de7cfbb6435e626bc9945c40fecb8/groups/sig-autoscaling/groups.yaml#L84

Ping me the PR and I can take a look.