Changelog
This changelog lists all updates, improvements and new features our Engineering team develops for our Skyscrapers Reference Developer Platform. These are rolled out automatically to all DevOps-as-a-Service customers.
2021 Q2
- 2021-05-11
Maintenance
Vault upgraded to 1.7.1
We are in the process of upgrading our Kubernetes based Vault setups to the latest version 1.7.1. This release contains features, bug fixes and 2 CVE fixes (nobody was affected by this). For full details and other changes, please refer to the upstream …
- 2021-05-11
Maintenance
Updated Teleport to version 4.4.9
We’ve updated all Teleport clusters and nodes to version 4.4.9. This update mainly contains bug fixes and performance improvements. You can find the full changelog on the teleport repository.
- 2021-05-11
Maintenance
Extra alerts for excessive resource usage
Our monitoring solution fires a number of alerts notifying of the application and cluster’s health. We have added extra alerts to warn when containers use more than 200% of it’s resource requests for 30 minutes. This has already been rolled out …
- 2021-05-10
Maintenance
Merging AKS and EKS reference solution codebases and improving automation
Since the end of 2020 we’ve started supporting Azure AKS environments, next to our already fleshed out offering around Amazon EKS. What initially started as a proof of concept has become bigger and bigger. In the background we’ve been working …
- 2021-04-14
Maintenance
Adding support for Istio service mesh
We now support Istio service mesh for all customers using our Kubernetes Reference Solution (AWS EKS and Azure AKS). A service mesh makes it easier to connect, secure and observe micro-services. Based on conversations with our customers, we considered …
- 2021-04-06
Maintenance
Upgraded several cluster components (patch-level)
We’ve upgraded several addons to their latest patch-level so important bugfixes are included: aws-node-termination-handler 1.12.1 -> 1.12.2 dex 2.28.0 -> 2.28.1 fluent-bit 1.7.2 -> 1.7.3 loki 2.2.0 -> 2.2.1 velero 1.5.3 -> 1.5.4
2021 Q1
- 2021-03-30
Maintenance
Vault upgraded to 1.7.0
We are in the process of upgrading our Kubernetes based Vault setups to the latest version 1.7.0. This release contains features, bug fixes and 4 CVE fixes (nobody was affected by this). For full details and other changes, please refer to the upstream …
- 2021-03-30
Maintenance
Upgrade AKS and EKS clusters to 1.19
We have started rolling out AKS and EKS 1.19. This brings AKS on Kubernetes v1.19.7 and EKS on Kubernetes v1.19.6-eks-49a6c0. In the process of upgrading EKS the following components have also been upgraded: KubeProxy from 1.18.9 to 1.19.6 CoreDNS from …
- 2021-03-23
Maintenance
Monitoring upgrades
As part of our regular upgrade cycle, the following Kubernetes cluster components will be updated in the next rollout. These updates are being rolled out to all clusters and will be finished by the end of the week. Most notable changes include bug fixes …
- 2021-03-18
Maintenance
Concourse upgraded to v7.1.0
We have upgraded our Concourse setups to the latest version 7.1.0 This upgrade includes the following breaking changes: Removing the aggregate step as planned. It is succeeded by the in_parallel step. You can check the full changelog here. We also took the …
- 2021-03-16
Maintenance
Upgraded several cluster components
As part of our regular upgrade cycle, the following Kubernetes cluster components have been updated. We’ve already rolled these out to all clusters. Most notable changes include bug fixes and minor improvements. Click each link to go to the full …
- 2021-03-10
Maintenance
Improved monitoring alerts on Slack
We have updated the format of the monitoring Slack notifications. We now differentiate between warning and critical alerts with a visual color and we changed the output of the alert from the summary to the full description to give more information in the …
- 2021-03-05
Maintenance
Fixed regression in Elasticsearch monitoring for Prometheus
We discovered an issue with our Elasticsearch monitoring for Prometheus that was introduced a while back in a rutinary chart upgrade. Because of this problem some Elasticsearch metrics were not being reported into Prometheus, like available storage space …
- 2021-03-04
Maintenance
You can now use local NVMe Instance Storage with your Pods on EKS
Certain AWS EC2 instances come with fast local NVMe Instance Storage and can usually be recognized with the d suffix (eg. m5d.large). Our platform will now automatically mount these volumes under the /ephemeralX paths (eg. /ephemeral0, /ephemeral1, …
- 2021-02-23
Maintenance
Option to run the K8s API private
As of today we have the option to only allow access to the Kubernetes API over a private network connection. Currently the Kubernetes API is available over the public internet. We can now configure your cluster to only be accessable over a private network …
- 2021-02-16
Maintenance
New container to authenticate to aws-ecr
We added a new docker image called concourse-ecr-login. This image has the AWS cli and docker installed. This image can be used to fetch credentials from AWS to authenticate to ECR when using the registry-image in Concourse. See our documentation on how to …
- 2021-02-09
Maintenance
Upgraded several cluster components
As part of our regular upgrade cycle, the following Kubernetes cluster components have been updated. We’ve already rolled these out to all clusters. Most notable changes include many bug fixes and minor improvements. Click each link to go to the full …
- 2021-02-05
Maintenance
Auto-assigned Elastic IPs for K8s nodes (optional)
We’re releasing an optional feature where it’s possible to assign Elastic IPs to nodepools. This can be useful for whitelisting purposes. For example when nodes, running in public subnets, need to connect to services behind enterprise …
- 2021-02-02
Maintenance
Striving for more automation on the K8s reference solution
We’ve recently improved in the automation of our Kubernetes reference solution in several ways. Automation is very important for us to be able to quickly deliver new features and bug fixes to our customers, while performing seamless rollouts that …
- 2021-01-26
Maintenance
Grafana main dashboard updated
By default we integrated our Grafana deployments with Dex for handling authentication. We’ve now also made it possible to configure any other supported Grafana authentication backend, for example to use Azure AD directly.
- 2021-01-26
Maintenance
Automated AWS ELasticsearch Service backups to S3
By default, the AWS Elasticsearch Service already comes with regular automated snapshots. However these snapshots can not be used for recovery or migration to a new Elasticsearch cluster and furthermore can only be accessed as long as the Elasticsearch API …
- 2021-01-21
Maintenance
Velero S3 backups replication
Our reference solution eks-based Velero backups on AWS S3 now supports automatic replication to an additional S3 bucket on an AWS region of choice. The feature is disabled by default, contact your lead engineer to discuss about enabling it for your …
- 2021-01-20
Maintenance
Monitoring upgrades
As part of our regular upgrade cycle, the following Kubernetes cluster components have been updated. These updates are being rolled out to all clusters and will be finished by the end of the week. Most notable changes include bug fixes and minor …
- 2021-01-19
Maintenance
Concourse upgraded to v6.7.3
We have upgraded our Concourse setups to the latest version 6.7.3. This upgrade mainly contains minor new features and some bug fixes and performance improvements. You can check the full changelog here.
- 2021-01-12
Maintenance
Vault upgraded to 1.6.1
We have updated our Kubernetes based Vault setups to the latest version 1.6.1 in the past days. This release contains mostly bug fixes and 2 CVE fixes (nobody was affected by this). For full details and other changes, please refer to the upstream Vault …