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.
2026 Q1
- 2026-01-16
Announcements
Kube-green added to our roadmap
We are announcing that we have added kube-green as a viable component into our roadmap. kube-green is a simple kubernetes addon that automatically shuts down (some of) your resources when you don’t need them.
- 2026-01-15
Maintenance
Enhanced automatic scaling for cluster components
We have rolled out improvements to our platform’s automatic scaling capabilities. These optimizations allow cluster components to better adapt to the varying workloads and demands of our customers’ environments without the need for manual …
- 2026-01-08
Announcements
New team members in Customer Enablement Circle
We’re excited to welcome two new cloud engineers to our Customer Enablement circle: Besfort Haxhani and Arman Harutunyan. With this addition, our team is growing stronger and better equipped to support you. You’ll likely see them pop up in your support …
- 2026-01-07
New Features
New storage dashboard for better resource management
We’ve added a new Grafana dashboard to help you track and manage unused storage resources across your Kubernetes clusters! This dashboard provides clear visibility into PersistentVolumes and PersistentVolumeClaims that are no longer in use but still …
2025 Q4
- 2025-12-22
Announcements
Kickstarting support improvements with Pylon
We’re launching the implementation of a new customer engagement platform at Skyscrapers! We are continuously aiming to improve how we handle support across different digital channels and will position Pylon as our central tool for managing all of your …
- 2025-12-11
Announcements
Updated support processes
We’ve updated our support processes and dashboards for all your requests. These changes will improve clarity in day-to-day support and operations. You can read more here: https://docs.skyscrapers.eu/docs/reference/support-process/. Feel free to tell …
- 2025-12-08
Maintenance
Upgraded cluster add-ons
The following updates have been rolled out to all non-production clusters. As usual there are also improvements across various other add-ons, ensuring enhanced performance and security: amazon-eks-ami v20251120 Root block volume has been migrated from gp2 …
- 2025-12-08
Maintenance
Migrated to new ECR Basic Scanning version
We have successfully migrated all managed AWS accounts to the new version of ECR Basic Scanning, which uses Amazon’s native scanning technology. What Changed ECR Basic Scanning: Upgraded from the previous version to AWS_NATIVE scanning technology …
- 2025-12-04
New Features
New Feature: Seekable OCI Parallel Pull mode for Amazon EKS
We have implemented support for an experimental feature called Seekable OCI (SOCI) parallel pull mode in our node pools. This enhancement allows for faster and more efficient container image pulls by enabling parallel downloads of image layers, …
- 2025-12-04
New Features
New Feature: S3 CSI Driver for EKS Clusters
We are excited to announce support for the S3 Container Storage Interface (CSI) Driver on our EKS clusters. This new feature allows Kubernetes workloads to seamlessly interact with Amazon S3 storage, enabling applications to read and write data directly to …
- 2025-11-13
New Features
Creation of a yaml validator github workflow
New Feature: YAML Validator for EKS Cluster Configurations We’ve introduced a new YAML validation tool integrated into our GitHub workflows! This validator automatically checks all YAML configuration files (especially EKS cluster definitions) to prevent …
- 2025-11-13
Maintenance
Upgrading EKS clusters to v1.33 + node auto repair feature
Update 2025-10-21: These changes have been rolled out to all clusters. We are rolling out EKS v1.33. Please make sure to update to our recommended client versions matching this upgrade. This upgrade promotes the in-place resource resize API to beta, …
- 2025-10-13
Maintenance
Upgraded Concourse CI to version 7.14.2
Concourse CI has been upgraded to version 7.14.2. This release comes with a UI bugfix for Chrome v141. You can find the full changelog on GitHub: Concourse v7.14.2 Release Notes
2025 Q3
- 2025-09-25
Maintenance
Upgraded cluster add-ons
The following updates have been rolled out to all non-production clusters. As usual there are also improvements across various other add-ons, ensuring enhanced performance and security: amazon-eks-ami v20250904 aws-ebs-csi-driver v1.48.0-eksbuild.2 …
- 2025-09-23
Maintenance
OpenSearch maintenance: improved monitoring and upgrading to 2.19
We have redone our OpenSearch monitoring setup to rely on the CloudWatch integration instead of using elasticsearch-exporter. This allows us to monitor metrics more reliably and closer to the AWS setup. You will also notice a brand new Grafana dashboard …
- 2025-09-22
New Features
Enhanced AWS Backup Mechanism Released
We are excited to announce a new and improved backup mechanism for AWS resources, powered by AWS Backup. This allows us to create backups on custom intervals and custom retention periods (next to the built in backups of the components). Next to that the …
- 2025-08-21
Maintenance
Upgraded Concourse CI to version 7.14.1
Concourse CI has been upgraded to version 7.14.1. This release comes with several improvements and bug fixes. In addition, we have updated our Concourse authentication flow by plugging it into the same Dex instance that is used for other services like …
- 2025-08-20
Announcements
Expanding our Customer Enablement Team (know anybody?)
Two people recently left our Customer Enablement team. As a result, we’ve had some capacity challenges: service has been a bit slower at times, and progress on internal improvements hasn’t moved as quickly as we’d like. To address this, we’ve opened up a …
- 2025-08-06
Maintenance
Upgraded cluster add-ons
The following updates have been rolled out to all non-production clusters. As usual there are also improvements across various other add-ons, ensuring enhanced performance and security: amazon-eks-ami v20250715 aws-ebs-csi-driver v1.46.0-eksbuild.1 …
- 2025-07-31
Announcements
[ACTION REQUIRED] Bitnami deprecates free container support
Bitnami has announced that starting August 28 2025, it will stop publishing free-of-charge supported container images and Helm charts. (Announcement: https://github.com/bitnami/charts/issues/35164) What’s changing? Bitnami will stop updating and supporting …
- 2025-07-04
Maintenance
Upgraded cluster add-ons
Update 2025-07-15: These changes have been rolled out to all clusters. The following updates have been rolled out to all non-production clusters. As usual there are also improvements across various other add-ons, ensuring enhanced performance and security: …
- 2025-07-02
Maintenance
Skyscrapers report on security incident
We’re choosing to share this incident publicly, although not without hesitation. Being transparent about security issues is uncomfortable and feels scary. But we believe it’s important to follow our own values. Trust is built not by hiding mistakes, but by …
2025 Q2
- 2025-06-25
Maintenance
Loki label optimisations to improve performance, rollout finished
We have finished deploying our announced changes to the default indexed labels and structured metadata we assign to Loki logs. Please read on to know what changes have been made and how this impacts you. Please reach out if you have any questions, need …
- 2025-06-25
New Features
Introducing the "Platform Info" file
We’re rolling out a small new feature which cretes a file called ${cluster-name}-platform-info.yaml in the k8s-clusters directory of our customer git repositories. This file contains some basic, non-sensitive, information about the platform, such as …
- 2025-06-16
Maintenance
Fixed subnet & route association bug
Last week we rolled out a fix for a bug in our VPC route table association logic. This bug could cause some EKS worker node subnets to not be associated with the correct route table for its respective Availability Zone (AZ). This could lead to non-optimal …