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 Q1

2024-01-22
Use direct AWS EKS AMI instead of SkS custom-build
#kubernetes #eks #ami
2024-01-19
Upgraded cluster add-ons
#add-on #kubernetes #update #upgrade #component #eks
2024-01-11
Karpenter now deployed by default and migrated system pool
#component #karpenter #addon #eks #aws

2023 Q4

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

2023 Q3

2023-09-29
Support for GPU node pools on AWS (EKS)
#kubernetes #k8s #aws #eks #gpu #nvidia
2023-09-29
Removed Calico as NetworkPolicies engine - this functionality has merged with the AWS VPC CNI
#kubernetes #eks #networkpolicies #calico #tigera #cni
2023-09-20
Upgrading K8s clusters to v1.27
#kubernetes #upgrade #eks #aks
2023-09-11
New experimental component Karpenter for cost-effective node scaling
#component #karpenter #addon #eks #aws
2023-09-07
Upgraded Teleport to version 13.3.8
#upgrades #teleport #ssh #updates #tools
2023-08-04
Upgraded Teleport to version 13.3.0
#upgrades #teleport #ssh #updates #tools
2023-07-19
Disable kubernetes-dashboard by default
#add-on #kubernetes #update #upgrade #component #eks
2023-07-14
Upgraded cluster add-ons
#add-on #kubernetes #update #upgrade #component #aks #eks
2023-07-07
Upgraded cluster add-ons
#add-on #kubernetes #update #upgrade #component #aks #eks
2023-07-05
Dedicated system node pool + reduced system component footprint
#add-on #kubernetes #update #upgrade #component #aks #eks

2023 Q2

2023-06-22
Upgrading K8s clusters to v1.26
#kubernetes #upgrade #eks #aks
2023-06-09
Vault upgraded to 1.13.3
#vault #kubernetes
2023-06-09
Upgrading OpenSearch clusters to 2.5
#upgrades #opensearch #elasticsearch #updates #database
2023-05-31
Upgraded Teleport to version 13.0.3
#upgrades #teleport #ssh #updates #tools
2023-05-30
Post-mortem - A word on Pods stuck with ContainerCreating status problems
#kubernetes #eks #postmortem #kernel-bug