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.

2024 Q2

2024-04-03 • Maintenance
Overhauled EKS access control
#kubernetes #upgrade #eks

2024 Q1

2024-03-28 • Maintenance
Upgrading EKS clusters to v1.29
#kubernetes #upgrade #eks
2024-03-14 • Maintenance
Secret envelope encryption enabled on EKS
#kubernetes #encryption #secrets
2024-03-08 • Maintenance
Migration of GitHub actions-runner-controller to gha-runner-scale-set
#kubernetes #automation #cicd #github #actions #runner #controller
2024-02-29 • Maintenance
Upgraded cluster add-ons
#add-on #kubernetes #update #upgrade #component #eks
2024-02-16 • Maintenance
Upgraded Teleport to version 15.0.1
#upgrades #teleport #ssh #updates #tools
2024-02-08 • New Features
Introducing Thanos as an experimental feature to the k8s reference solution
#kubernetes #eks #prometheus #monitoring #thanos
2024-01-22 • Maintenance
Use direct AWS EKS AMI instead of SkS custom-build
#kubernetes #eks #ami
2024-01-19 • Maintenance
Upgraded cluster add-ons
#add-on #kubernetes #update #upgrade #component #eks
2024-01-11 • Maintenance
Karpenter now deployed by default and migrated system pool
#component #karpenter #addon #eks #aws

2023 Q4

2023-12-14 • Maintenance
Vault upgraded to 1.15.4
#vault #kubernetes
2023-12-05 • Maintenance
Upgrading EKS clusters to v1.28
#kubernetes #upgrade #eks
2023-11-16 • Announcements
Don't notify customers of infra/platform related alerts by default
#kubernetes #monitoring #alerts
2023-11-07 • Maintenance
Upgraded cluster add-ons
#add-on #kubernetes #update #upgrade #component #aks #eks
2023-10-10 • Maintenance
Upgraded Vertical Pod Autoscaler to version 1.0.0
#upgrades #vpa #k8s #updates
2023-10-10 • Maintenance
Upgraded Teleport to version 14.0.1
#upgrades #teleport #ssh #updates #tools
2023-10-05 • Maintenance
Upgraded cluster add-ons
#add-on #kubernetes #update #upgrade #component #aks #eks

2023 Q3

2023-09-29 • Maintenance
Support for GPU node pools on AWS (EKS)
#kubernetes #k8s #aws #eks #gpu #nvidia
2023-09-29 • Maintenance
Removed Calico as NetworkPolicies engine - this functionality has merged with the AWS VPC CNI
#kubernetes #eks #networkpolicies #calico #tigera #cni
2023-09-20 • Maintenance
Upgrading K8s clusters to v1.27
#kubernetes #upgrade #eks #aks
2023-09-11 • Maintenance
New experimental component Karpenter for cost-effective node scaling
#component #karpenter #addon #eks #aws
2023-09-07 • Maintenance
Upgraded Teleport to version 13.3.8
#upgrades #teleport #ssh #updates #tools
2023-08-04 • Maintenance
Upgraded Teleport to version 13.3.0
#upgrades #teleport #ssh #updates #tools
2023-07-19 • Maintenance
Disable kubernetes-dashboard by default
#add-on #kubernetes #update #upgrade #component #eks
2023-07-14 • Maintenance
Upgraded cluster add-ons
#add-on #kubernetes #update #upgrade #component #aks #eks