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.
2025 Q1
- 2025-01-07
Maintenance
Upgrading EKS clusters to v1.31
We are rolling out EKS v1.31. Please make sure to update to our recommended client versions matching this upgrade. Timeline: Testing & rollout to non-production clusters has happened in the past days Production rollouts are expected to finish at the …
2024 Q4
- 2024-12-11
Maintenance
Cleanup of Teleport
As mentioned in our previous post, we removed Teleport from our environments (apart from the ones that were not ready to move away from it). For customers that had nothing else running on the tools environment we also cleaned up the networking. This will …
- 2024-12-09
Maintenance
Upgrading Concourse CI to version 7.12.0
Concourse CI has been upgraded to version 7.12.0. This update brings some small new features and improvements. Relevant Concourse CI changelog: https://github.com/concourse/concourse/releases/tag/v7.12.0
- 2024-12-09
Announcements
Migrated to Tailscale for internal remote access to our managed environments
In order to streamline our colleague’s experiences, we are excited to announce that we have moved to Tailscale for secure remote access to our managed environments. Tailscale is a Zero Trust network that provides a lightweight, seamless yet secure …
- 2024-12-06
Maintenance
Loki optimisations to mitigate recurring performance issues
Over the past months, we’ve gathered customer feedback and monitored Loki’s performance within our Kubernetes clusters. This process has highlighted recurring performance challenges. To address these, we are rolling out optimizations designed …
- 2024-12-03
Maintenance
[ACTION REQUIRED] Upgraded cluster add-ons
The following updates have been rolled out to all clusters. Notable updates include improvements across various add-ons, ensuring enhanced performance and security. This is also a reminder to for Actions to take regarding the Grafana AngularJS deprecation! …
- 2024-11-13
Announcements
Our newest version of the Skyscrapers Security Policy is publicly available
We are excited to announce a new version of our Security Policy to reflect the latest changes in our organization, continously improving our security practices. There are some significant changes, with emphasis on the introduction of the “Data …
- 2024-11-12
Maintenance
Upgraded Teleport to version 15.4.21
We’ve upgraded all Teleport clusters to 15.4.21. Teleport is a tool we mostly use internally to provide secure and auditted access to (EC2) instances, Kubernetes clusters and several dashboards. The nodes will gradually be upgraded to the new version …
- 2024-11-06
New Features
Extra Notes now included in wiki
Feature: Automated Wiki Creation for Extra Notes The auto-creation script has been updated to scan Terraform component directories, identifying .MD files and automatically adding them to the wiki under the “Extra Notes” section. This …
- 2024-10-18
New Features
New Grafana SRE dashboards
we’ve integrated open-source dashboards taking advantage of the newest features in Grafana to our setup. These dashboards are designed to help you monitor your services and infrastructure more effectively. They are available in your Grafana under the …
- 2024-10-15
Maintenance
Maintenance: OpenTofu upgraded to 1.8.3
We’re excited to announce that we are now using OpenTofu version 1.8.3 to deploy our environments. This release includes several bug fixes and new features that we can leverage going forward. No action is needed on your part, as the upgrade is part …
- 2024-10-03
New Features
New feature: Dependabot scanning for Terragrunt/OpenTofu
We’re excited to announce that Dependabot has been integrated into our GitHub repositories to ensure our Terragrunt and OpenTofu modules stay up to date. Dependabot will automatically scan our repositories for outdated dependencies and generate pull …
2024 Q3
- 2024-09-19
Maintenance
[ACTION REQUIRED] Upgraded cluster add-ons
The following updates have been rolled out to non-production clusters, and will be pushed to production in the coming week. Notable updates include the major release of Karpenter v1 and improvements across various add-ons, ensuring enhanced performance and …
- 2024-09-03
Maintenance
Upgrading Concourse CI to version 7.11.2
We’re happy to announce we’re finally upgrading to the latest version of Concourse CI, v7.11.2, which brings a lot of new features and improvements. Considering this is quite a substantial upgrade, we will get in touch with each customer …
- 2024-08-26
Maintenance
Upgraded Teleport to version 15.4.16
We’ve upgraded all Teleport clusters to 15.4.16. Teleport is a tool we mostly use internally to provide secure and auditted access to (EC2) instances, Kubernetes clusters and several dashboards. The nodes will gradually be upgraded to the new version …
- 2024-08-12
Maintenance
[ACTION REQUIRED] Upgraded cluster add-ons
Update 2024-08-20: These changes have been rolled out to all clusters. As part of our regular upgrade cycle, the following Kubernetes cluster components have been updated and have been rolled out to all our managed clusters. The following updates have been …
- 2024-07-29
New Features
New feature: Automation of Terragrunt documentation generation
In an effort to improve our documentation for the cloud resources we deploy for our customers, we are pleased to announce the integration of a GitHub action into your repositories, streamlining the generation of documentation for your cloud resources …
- 2024-07-22
Maintenance
Upgraded Teleport to version 15.4.9
We’ve upgraded all Teleport clusters to 15.4.9. Teleport is a tool we mostly use internally to provide secure and auditted access to (EC2) instances, Kubernetes clusters and several dashboards. The nodes will gradually be upgraded to the new version …
- 2024-07-17
New Features
New feature: Atlantis in GitHub PRs
We are happy to announce that we have integrated Atlantis into our GitHub repositories. Atlantis is a tool that helps us all to automate Terragrunt/OpenTofu workflows by running commands in response to GitHub pull requests. This integration will help us to …
- 2024-07-11
Maintenance
[ACTION REQUIRED] Upgraded cluster add-ons
Update 2024-07-17: These changes have been rolled out to all clusters. As part of our regular upgrade cycle, the following Kubernetes cluster components have been updated and have been rolled out to all our managed clusters. Highlight of this update is …
2024 Q2
- 2024-06-27
Maintenance
Our documentation is now available on https://docs.skyscrapers.eu
In an effort to improve our documentation and make it more accessible, we are excited to announce that our documentation is now available on https://docs.skyscrapers.eu.
- 2024-06-24
Maintenance
Migrating Docker Images from DockerHub to GitHub Container Registry (GHCR)
In the face of DockerHub’s rate limits and the need for more integrated automation, the decision was made to migrate our Docker images from DockerHub to GitHub Container Registry (GHCR). This transition not only avoids DockerHub’s constraints …
- 2024-06-19
Maintenance
Upgrading EKS clusters to v1.30
We are rolling out EKS v1.30. Please make sure to update to our recommended client versions matching this upgrade. Timeline: Testing & rollout to non-production clusters has happened in the past days Production rollouts are expected to finish at the …
- 2024-06-13
Maintenance
Upgraded cluster add-ons - hotfixes
We’ve upgraded several components, most notably Karpenter, mid cycle to fix several bugs. This resolves the AWS notice regarding a defect in Karpenter’s AMI drift detection logic, which could lead to unexpected, unneeded, node replacements. We …
- 2024-06-03
New Features
New feature CloudWatch integration in Grafana
We are excited to announce that we have configured the CloudWatch integration in Grafana by default. This allows you to query and visualize your AWS CloudWatch metrics in Grafana. This is especially useful if you are already using Grafana for monitoring …