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
- 2025-03-17
New Features
Flux Image Reflector and Automation controllers
We are excited to announce that we have added two new controllers to our Flux setup: the Flux Image reflector and the Flux Image automation controller. These work together to update a Git repository when new container images are available. The Image …
- 2025-03-12
Maintenance
Upgraded cluster add-ons
Update 2025-03-24: These changes have been rolled out to all clusters. The following updates have been rolled out to all non-production clusters. As usual there’s also improvements across various other add-ons, ensuring enhanced performance and …
- 2025-03-05
Announcements
Migrating from OpenTofu to Flux: A leap forward in our Kubernetes management
In this post, we’re excited to announce our plans to shift the management of Kubernetes (K8s) add-ons from our existing OpenTofu-based approach (using Terragrunt and Concourse CI) to Flux. This change is part of our broader effort to simplify our platform …
- 2025-02-27
Announcements
DockerHub rate limits - system components updated
Since our previous announcement regarding the new DockerHub rate limits starting March 1st, we have updated and made sure that all system workloads managed by Skyscrapers, like ingress controllers, monitoring, istio etc., will not be affected by these new …
- 2025-02-21
Announcements
[ACTION REQUIRED] Change in DockerHub rate limits on March 1st 2025
Starting March 1, 2025 DockerHub will limit unauthenticated image pulls further from 100 per 6-hours per IP address to 10 per hour per IP address: https://docs.docker.com/docker-hub/usage/. This is a reduction of 40%! Please read this post carefully to …
- 2025-02-10
Maintenance
Upgrading Concourse CI to version 7.12.1
Concourse CI has been upgraded to version 7.12.1. This update brings some small improvements. Relevant Concourse CI changelog: https://github.com/concourse/concourse/releases/tag/v7.12.1
- 2025-02-05
Maintenance
Upgrading EKS clusters to v1.32
We are rolling out EKS v1.32. Please make sure to update to our recommended client versions matching this upgrade. This upgrade includes an important change in how PersistentVolumeClaims (PVCs) are handled by StatefulSets. When a StatefulSet is deleted, …
- 2025-01-30
New Features
New Dex onboarding docs and support for Google Group scope
We are excited to announce that we have completely rewritten our Dex onboarding documentation. This documentation will guide you through the steps required to configure your Identity Provider (like Google, Microsoft or Github) so we can integrate it as …
- 2025-01-23
Maintenance
[ACTION REQUIRED] Upgraded cluster add-ons
The following updates have been rolled out to all non-production clusters. Notable updates include a major release for Prometheus, bringing a new UI. As usual there’s also improvements across various other add-ons, ensuring enhanced performance and …
- 2025-01-22
New Features
New beta feature: Kubecost
We are excited to announce that we have added Kubecost as an optional feature to our Platform. Kubecost is a tool that helps you to manage your Kubernetes costs by providing visibility into your AWS and Kubernetes resource usage and costs. At the moment we …
- 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 …