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.

2021 Q4

2021-10-07 • Maintenance
Grafana security patch following High Severity CVE-2021-39226
#k8s #grafana #cve
2021-10-06 • Maintenance
RDS snapshots cross-account replication available
#rds #aws #snapshots #disaster-recovery #replication #backup

2021 Q3

2021-09-27 • Maintenance
Upgraded cluster add-ons
#add-on #kubernetes #update #upgrade #component #aks #eks #monitoring
2021-09-27 • Maintenance
Guaranteed QoS for all critical system and infrastructure Pods
#kubernetes
2021-09-20 • Maintenance
Improved EC2 instance interruption notifications
#kubernetes #ec2 #spot #slack #notifications #monitoring
2021-09-16 • Maintenance
Upgrade AKS and EKS clusters to 1.21. Actions to take!
#kubernetes #upgrade #eks #aks
2021-09-13 • Maintenance
Istio upgraded to version 1.11.2
#kubernetes #istio #service-mesh #upgrade #add-on #kiali
2021-09-10 • Maintenance
Mute critical KubeAPIErrorBudgetBurn alerts
#feature #monitoring
2021-09-09 • Maintenance
VPA enabled by default
#add-on #kubernetes #VPA #eks
2021-09-07 • Maintenance
Downgraded Grafana to v7.5
#add-on #kubernetes #downgrade #grafana #aks #eks
2021-09-06 • Maintenance
Cert-manager upgraded to 1.4.4
#cert-manager #kubernetes #certificates #ssl #letsencrypt
2021-08-31 • Maintenance
Vault upgraded to 1.8.2
#vault #kubernetes
2021-08-26 • Maintenance
Vault upgraded to 1.8.1
#vault #kubernetes
2021-08-10 • Maintenance
Upgraded cluster components & increased Pod density. Actions to take!
#add-on #kubernetes #update #upgrade #component #aks #eks
2021-08-04 • Maintenance
Reduced memory usage of Cluster Autoscaler
#memory #resources #optimization #cluster-autoscaler #autoscaler
2021-08-02 • Maintenance
Upgraded Teleport to version 6.2.8
#upgrades #teleport #ssh #updates #tools
2021-07-22 • Maintenance
Concourse upgraded to v7.3.2
#concourse #cicd #upgrades #pipelines
2021-07-19 • Maintenance
Using encryption at rest for Prometheus and Alertmanager
#add-on #kubernetes #monitoring #prometheus #alertmanager #encryption #security
2021-07-06 • Maintenance
Pod Disruption Budget for CoreDNS
#add-on #kubernetes #coredns #feature

2021 Q2

2021-06-24 • Maintenance
Using Telepresence in our Reference Solution
#development #telepresence #debugging #access #kubernetes
2021-06-18 • Maintenance
GP2-encrypted is now the default storageclass
#encryption #ebs #persistentvolume #security
2021-06-14 • Maintenance
Always use encryption at rest for OpenVPN storage
#openvpn #encryption #ebs #persistentvolume #security
2021-06-10 • Maintenance
Support for RabbitMQ and AmazonMQ monitoring
#rabbitmq #amazonmq #kubernetes #cloudwatch #prometheus #monitoring #alerting
2021-06-09 • Maintenance
Initial support for Milvus database
#kubernetes #milvus #database
2021-06-04 • Maintenance
Upgrade AKS and EKS clusters to 1.20
#kubernetes #upgrade #eks #aks