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
Update 2024-04-04: These changes have been rolled out to all clusters. We’re overhauling the EKS auth system, which will result in a more flexible setup. This change should be transparent for you, but if you notice any new access-related issues, …
2024 Q1
- 2024-03-28
Maintenance
Upgrading EKS clusters to v1.29
Update 2024-04-04: All clusters have been upgraded to v1.29. We are rolling out EKS v1.29. Please make sure to update to our recommended client versions matching this upgrade Timeline: Testing & rollout to non-production clusters has happened in the …
- 2024-03-14
Maintenance
Secret envelope encryption enabled on EKS
Update 2024-03-21: This change is applied on all clusters. Today all data is already encrypted at rest in the AWS Managed EKS control plane. In an effort of improving the security of our EKS clusters we will be enabling Secret envelope encryption on EKS. …
- 2024-03-08
Maintenance
Migration of GitHub actions-runner-controller to gha-runner-scale-set
As of today we are supporting the new (officially by GitHub supported) deployment method of GitHub Actions runners, the gha-runner-scale-set-controller. This new controller is a more efficient and scalable way to deploy self-hosted GitHub runners …
- 2024-02-29
Maintenance
Upgraded cluster add-ons
Update 2024-03-07: Upgrades have been applied on all clusters. As part of our regular upgrade cycle, the following Kubernetes cluster components have been updated and are gradually rolling out to all our managed clusters. One of the main updates included …
- 2024-02-16
Maintenance
Upgraded Teleport to version 15.0.1
We’ve upgraded all Teleport clusters from version 14.0.1 to 15.0.1. 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 …
- 2024-02-08
New Features
Introducing Thanos as an experimental feature to the k8s reference solution
As of now as an experimental feature, we added support for Thanos to enable multi-cluster Prometheus monitoring. This enables you to store your Prometheus metrics in a central place, which can be used to query, visualize metrics and write alerts based on …
- 2024-01-22
Maintenance
Use direct AWS EKS AMI instead of SkS custom-build
We have stopped building our own custom EKS AMI. As of now we directly rely on the upstream, AWS-provided image for EKS. One of the main reasons for our custom build was the inclusion of our Teleport node agent, to allow audited SSH access for debugging. …
- 2024-01-19
Maintenance
Upgraded cluster add-ons
Update 2024-01-25: All changes have been rolled out. As part of our regular upgrade cycle, the following Kubernetes cluster components have been updated and our gradually rolling out to all our managed clusters. There are no major version changes, mostly …
- 2024-01-11
Maintenance
Karpenter now deployed by default and migrated system pool
In September last year we announced the addition of Karpenter as experimental feature. Since then we have been making improvements to our implementation and gradually used some pilots internally and with some customers. We are happy to announce that …
2023 Q4
- 2023-12-14
Maintenance
Vault upgraded to 1.15.4
All Vault setups have been updated to the latest version 1.15.4. Please refer to the upstream changelogs to see what’s changed: Vault 1.15.4 Release notes
- 2023-12-05
Maintenance
Upgrading EKS clusters to v1.28
Update 2023-09-28: All clusters have been upgraded to v1.28. We are rolling out EKS v1.28. This brings our supported platforms to v1.28(.3). Please make sure to update to our recommended client versions matching this upgrade Timeline: Testing & rollout …
- 2023-11-16
Announcements
Don't notify customers of infra/platform related alerts by default
After internal reflection and based on customer feedback, we’re disabling customer Slack notifications for infra level alerts by default. These are alerts which Skyscrapers is responsible for follow-up, and caused confusion with customers whether …
- 2023-11-07
Maintenance
Upgraded cluster add-ons
As part of our regular upgrade cycle, the following Kubernetes cluster components have been updated and our gradually rolling out to all our managed clusters. There are no major version changes, mostly patch and minor versions. Focus of most changes …
- 2023-10-10
Maintenance
Upgraded Vertical Pod Autoscaler to version 1.0.0
We uncovered a bug in our VPA deployments were the VPA was no longer updating its recommendations. As effect the VPA was no longer updating the deployments it was managing. We have now fixed this and while at it we upgraded the VPA from version 0.14.0 to …
- 2023-10-10
Maintenance
Upgraded Teleport to version 14.0.1
We’ve upgraded all Teleport clusters from version 13.3.8 to 14.0.1. 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 …
- 2023-10-05
Maintenance
Upgraded cluster add-ons
Update 2023-10-10: Upgrades have been applied on all clusters. As part of our regular upgrade cycle, the following Kubernetes cluster components have been updated and our gradually rolling out to all our managed clusters. There are no major version …
2023 Q3
- 2023-09-29
Maintenance
Support for GPU node pools on AWS (EKS)
We’re adding support for GPU node pools in EKS. GPU nodes are great for compute-intensive workloads such as graphics and visualization workloads, or machine-learning processes. AWS uses the NVIDIA device plugin to make the GPU capacity of a node …
- 2023-09-29
Maintenance
Removed Calico as NetworkPolicies engine - this functionality has merged with the AWS VPC CNI
Historically we’ve been using Calico as controller to provide NetworkPolicies support. This was offered as an optional feature only, considering the resource (and thus possible cost) impact of running this component. As announced in our K8s 1.27 …
- 2023-09-20
Maintenance
Upgrading K8s clusters to v1.27
Update 2023-09-28: All clusters have been upgraded to v1.27. We are rolling out AKS and EKS v1.27. This brings our supported AKS platforms to v1.27.3 and EKS to v1.27(.4). Please make sure to update to our recommended client versions matching this upgrade …
- 2023-09-11
Maintenance
New experimental component Karpenter for cost-effective node scaling
Karpenter is a new big feature that we offer in our AWS reference solution Today we manage Kubernetes nodes in a classic way through AWS autoscaling groups. However doing it this way brings a couple restrictions, most importantly that nodes are not …
- 2023-09-07
Maintenance
Upgraded Teleport to version 13.3.8
We’ve upgraded all Teleport clusters from version 13.3.0 to 13.3.8. 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 …
- 2023-08-04
Maintenance
Upgraded Teleport to version 13.3.0
We’ve upgraded all Teleport clusters from version 13.0.3 to13.3.0. 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 …
- 2023-07-19
Maintenance
Disable kubernetes-dashboard by default
In an effort to further reduce the footprint of the reference solution we are no longer going to deploy the kubernetes-dashboard* by default. The Skyscrapers team is using k9s as a tool to manage our clusters and we think its a worhty replacement. This …
- 2023-07-14
Maintenance
Upgraded cluster add-ons
Update 2023-07-18: These updates have been rolled out to all environments. As part of our regular upgrade cycle, the following Kubernetes cluster components have been updated and our gradually rolling out to all our managed clusters. Click each link to go …