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Explanation 5

Updated 2026-05-12
Dynamic, whitelabel-style Ingress to your application
#kubernetes #kubernetes_ingress
Updated 2026-05-12
ECR Pull-Through Cache
#kubernetes #aws #ecr #DR/BC
Updated 2026-05-12
Helm
#kubernetes
Updated 2026-05-12
Ingress
#aws #alb #traefik #kubernetes #kubernetes_ingress
Updated 2026-05-12
Kube-green
#kubernetes #finops

How-to guides 7

Updated 2026-05-12
AWS Load Balancer Controller
#aws #alb #kubernetes #kubernetes_ingress
Updated 2026-05-12
Cert-Manager
#cert-manager #kubernetes #kubernetes_ingress
Updated 2026-05-12
How-to use the ECR Pull-Through Cache
#kubernetes #aws #ecr #DR/BC
Updated 2026-05-12
Kube-green Setup
#kubernetes #finops
Updated 2026-05-12
OpenVPN
#kubernetes #vpn
Updated 2026-05-12
Traefik Ingress
#traefik #kubernetes #kubernetes_ingress
Updated 2026-05-12
Wireguard VPN
#kubernetes #vpn

Changelog

2026-05-13 Maintenance
More reliable K8s Event logging
2026-05-12 Kubernetes
Mitigation for the DirtyFrag kernel vulnerabilities on EKS nodes
2026-05-05 New Features
ECR Pull-Through Cache for platform system images
2026-04-22 Maintenance
Upgraded cluster add-ons and resilience improvements
2026-03-31 Maintenance
Upgrading EKS clusters to v1.35
2026-03-23 Maintenance
Upgraded cluster add-ons
2026-03-10 Announcements
Kube-green is now available
2026-03-04 Maintenance
Upgrading EKS clusters to v1.34
2026-02-18 Maintenance
Upgraded cluster add-ons
2026-01-27 Maintenance
Upgraded cluster add-ons
2026-01-16 Announcements
Kube-green added to our roadmap
2026-01-15 Maintenance
Enhanced automatic scaling for cluster components
2025-12-08 Maintenance
Upgraded cluster add-ons
2025-12-04 New Features
New Feature: Seekable OCI Parallel Pull mode for Amazon EKS
2025-12-04 New Features
New Feature: S3 CSI Driver for EKS Clusters
2025-11-13 Maintenance
Upgrading EKS clusters to v1.33 + node auto repair feature
2025-09-25 Maintenance
Upgraded cluster add-ons
2025-08-06 Maintenance
Upgraded cluster add-ons
2025-07-31 Announcements
[ACTION REQUIRED] Bitnami deprecates free container support
2025-07-04 Maintenance
Upgraded cluster add-ons
2025-06-25 Maintenance
Loki label optimisations to improve performance, rollout finished
2025-06-10 Maintenance
Grafana CVE-2025-4123 mitigation
2025-05-26 Announcements
Addons migration from OpenTofu to Flux complete and next steps
2025-05-20 Maintenance
[ACTION REQUIRED] Upgraded cluster add-ons
2025-05-08 Maintenance
[ACTION REQUIRED] Loki label optimisations to improve performance
2025-04-17 Maintenance
Upgraded cluster add-ons
2025-03-25 Maintenance
All clusters patched against IngressNightmare (CVE-2025-1097, CVE-2025-1098, CVE-2025-1974, CVE-2025-24513, CVE-2025-24514)
2025-03-12 Maintenance
Upgraded cluster add-ons
2025-03-05 Announcements
Migrating from OpenTofu to Flux: A leap forward in our Kubernetes management
2025-02-27 Announcements
DockerHub rate limits - system components updated
2025-02-21 Announcements
[ACTION REQUIRED] Change in DockerHub rate limits on March 1st 2025
2025-02-05 Maintenance
Upgrading EKS clusters to v1.32
2025-01-30 New Features
New Dex onboarding docs and support for Google Group scope
2025-01-23 Maintenance
[ACTION REQUIRED] Upgraded cluster add-ons
2025-01-07 Maintenance
Upgrading EKS clusters to v1.31
2024-12-09 Announcements
Migrated to Tailscale for internal remote access to our managed environments
2024-12-06 Maintenance
Loki optimisations to mitigate recurring performance issues
2024-12-03 Maintenance
[ACTION REQUIRED] Upgraded cluster add-ons
2024-09-19 Maintenance
[ACTION REQUIRED] Upgraded cluster add-ons
2024-08-12 Maintenance
[ACTION REQUIRED] Upgraded cluster add-ons
2024-07-11 Maintenance
[ACTION REQUIRED] Upgraded cluster add-ons
2024-06-19 Maintenance
Upgrading EKS clusters to v1.30
2024-06-13 Maintenance
Upgraded cluster add-ons - hotfixes
2024-05-23 Maintenance
Upgraded cluster add-ons
2024-05-02 Maintenance
Improving self-hoster GitHub Actions runners reliability
2024-04-11 Maintenance
[Action required] Upgraded cluster add-ons
2024-04-03 Maintenance
Overhauled EKS access control
2024-03-28 Maintenance
Upgrading EKS clusters to v1.29
2024-03-14 Maintenance
Secret envelope encryption enabled on EKS
2024-03-08 Maintenance
Migration of GitHub actions-runner-controller to gha-runner-scale-set
2024-02-29 Maintenance
Upgraded cluster add-ons
2024-02-08 New Features
Introducing Thanos as an experimental feature to the k8s reference solution
2024-01-22 Maintenance
Use direct AWS EKS AMI instead of SkS custom-build
2024-01-19 Maintenance
Upgraded cluster add-ons
2023-12-14 Maintenance
Vault upgraded to 1.15.4
2023-12-05 Maintenance
Upgrading EKS clusters to v1.28
2023-11-16 Announcements
Don't notify customers of infra/platform related alerts by default
2023-11-07 Maintenance
Upgraded cluster add-ons
2023-10-05 Maintenance
Upgraded cluster add-ons
2023-09-29 Maintenance
Support for GPU node pools on AWS (EKS)
2023-09-29 Maintenance
Removed Calico as NetworkPolicies engine - this functionality has merged with the AWS VPC CNI
2023-09-20 Maintenance
Upgrading K8s clusters to v1.27
2023-07-19 Maintenance
Disable kubernetes-dashboard by default
2023-07-14 Maintenance
Upgraded cluster add-ons
2023-07-07 Maintenance
Upgraded cluster add-ons
2023-07-05 Maintenance
Dedicated system node pool + reduced system component footprint
2023-06-22 Maintenance
Upgrading K8s clusters to v1.26
2023-06-09 Maintenance
Vault upgraded to 1.13.3
2023-05-30 Maintenance
Post-mortem - A word on Pods stuck with ContainerCreating status problems
2023-05-25 Maintenance
Upgraded fluent-bit and moving to built-in loki output
2023-05-11 Maintenance
Upgraded cluster add-ons for monitoring & logging
2023-05-10 Maintenance
[Action required] Update external-dns behavior for private Route53 zones
2023-05-04 Maintenance
Upgraded cluster add-ons
2023-04-17 Maintenance
Istio upgraded to version 1.16.4
2023-03-30 Maintenance
[Action required] Upgrades starting for K8s clusters to 1.25
2023-03-16 Maintenance
Istio upgraded to version 1.16.3
2023-03-13 Maintenance
Vault upgraded to 1.13.0
2023-03-01 Maintenance
INFO - Empty response for external.metrics.k8s.io/v1beta1 errors with kubectl and helm
2023-02-28 Maintenance
Post Mortem - Loki log loss
2023-02-20 Maintenance
Upgraded cluster add-ons
2023-02-13 Maintenance
Improving Loki performance & scalability
2023-02-03 Maintenance
Node Termination Handler Slack notifications disabled by default (AWS EKS)
2023-01-27 Maintenance
Upgraded K8s clusters to 1.24
2022-12-21 Maintenance
Upgraded cluster add-ons
2022-12-13 Maintenance
Vault upgraded to 1.12.2
2022-12-13 Maintenance
New feature: Use External-DNS for managing custom DNS records
2022-12-13 Maintenance
Istio upgraded to version 1.16.1
2022-11-21 Maintenance
New feature: Kubernetes descheduler
2022-11-18 Maintenance
Upgraded cluster add-ons
2022-11-17 Maintenance
Upgraded K8s clusters to 1.23
2022-11-10 Maintenance
Upgraded ingress-nginx, fixing CVE-2022-32149, CVE-2022-27664 and CVE-2022-1996
2022-11-09 Maintenance
Upgraded monitoring add-ons, fixing Grafana CVE-2022-32149
2022-10-25 Maintenance
Vault upgraded to 1.12.0
2022-10-17 Maintenance
NLB compatibility in Nginx Ingress
2022-10-17 Maintenance
Istio upgraded to version 1.15.2
2022-10-06 Maintenance
Upgraded cluster add-ons
2022-08-10 Maintenance
Upgraded cluster add-ons
2022-07-25 Maintenance
Upgraded AKS and EKS clusters to 1.22
2022-07-12 Maintenance
Upgraded cluster add-ons
2022-06-23 Maintenance
Calico NetworkPolicy controller upgraded on EKS
2022-06-14 Maintenance
Major Nginx Ingress Controller upgrade
2022-06-07 Maintenance
Replacing eventrouter component for persisting K8s events
2022-05-25 Maintenance
Improving Loki performance and usability
2022-05-12 Maintenance
Upgraded cluster add-ons
2022-05-05 Maintenance
[Action required] Final call - Deprecated API removal, upgrade your Ingresses etc.
2022-04-26 Maintenance
Improved node termination handling (AWS EKS)
2022-04-13 Maintenance
Add support for GP3 volumes through the AWS EBS CSI driver
2022-04-08 Maintenance
Internal refactor of monitoring addons
2022-04-04 Maintenance
Upgrade Nginx Ingress, fixing CVEs
2022-04-01 Maintenance
Upgrade to Grafana v8 - take 2
2022-03-21 Maintenance
Istio upgraded to version 1.13.2
2022-03-18 Maintenance
Vault upgraded to 1.9.4
2022-03-17 Maintenance
Upgraded cluster add-ons
2022-02-07 Maintenance
Github Actions Runner Controller
2022-02-07 Maintenance
AKS rollouts are now automated
2022-02-02 Maintenance
Calico NetworkPolicy controller upgraded on EKS
2022-01-28 Maintenance
VPA enabled by for metrics-server
2022-01-27 Maintenance
Adding support for the AWS Load Balancer controller
2022-01-21 Maintenance
Standardizing on Fluent Bit and Loki updates
2022-01-07 Maintenance
VPA enabled for Vault
2021-12-16 Maintenance
Monitoring for Grafana Loki in case of discarded logs
2021-12-16 Maintenance
Add support for mixed node pools in EKS
2021-12-10 Maintenance
Add support for AWS Secrets Manager in EKS
2021-12-06 Maintenance
Upgraded cluster add-ons
2021-11-25 Maintenance
Istio upgraded to version 1.12.0
2021-11-15 Maintenance
Introducing alerts for Fluent Bit errors
2021-10-11 Maintenance
A note on Let's Encrypt chain issues due to DST Root CA X3 expiry
2021-09-27 Maintenance
Upgraded cluster add-ons
2021-09-27 Maintenance
Guaranteed QoS for all critical system and infrastructure Pods
2021-09-20 Maintenance
Improved EC2 instance interruption notifications
2021-09-16 Maintenance
Upgrade AKS and EKS clusters to 1.21. Actions to take!
2021-09-13 Maintenance
Istio upgraded to version 1.11.2
2021-09-09 Maintenance
VPA enabled by default
2021-09-07 Maintenance
Downgraded Grafana to v7.5
2021-09-06 Maintenance
Cert-manager upgraded to 1.4.4
2021-08-31 Maintenance
Vault upgraded to 1.8.2
2021-08-26 Maintenance
Vault upgraded to 1.8.1
2021-08-10 Maintenance
Upgraded cluster components & increased Pod density. Actions to take!
2021-07-19 Maintenance
Using encryption at rest for Prometheus and Alertmanager
2021-07-06 Maintenance
Pod Disruption Budget for CoreDNS
2021-06-24 Maintenance
Using Telepresence in our Reference Solution
2021-06-10 Maintenance
Support for RabbitMQ and AmazonMQ monitoring
2021-06-09 Maintenance
Initial support for Milvus database
2021-06-04 Maintenance
Upgrade AKS and EKS clusters to 1.20
2021-06-03 Maintenance
Istio dashboards in Grafana
2021-05-27 Maintenance
Istio upgraded to version 1.10.0
2021-05-25 Maintenance
Vault upgraded to 1.7.2
2021-05-18 Maintenance
Upgraded several cluster components
2021-05-18 Maintenance
Adding support for EFS backed Persistent Volumes in Kubernetes
2021-05-11 Maintenance
Vault upgraded to 1.7.1
2021-05-10 Maintenance
Merging AKS and EKS reference solution codebases and improving automation
2021-04-14 Maintenance
Adding support for Istio service mesh
2021-04-06 Maintenance
Upgraded several cluster components (patch-level)
2021-03-30 Maintenance
Vault upgraded to 1.7.0
2021-03-30 Maintenance
Upgrade AKS and EKS clusters to 1.19
2021-03-23 Maintenance
Monitoring upgrades
2021-03-16 Maintenance
Upgraded several cluster components
2021-03-10 Maintenance
Improved monitoring alerts on Slack
2021-03-05 Maintenance
Fixed regression in Elasticsearch monitoring for Prometheus
2021-03-04 Maintenance
You can now use local NVMe Instance Storage with your Pods on EKS
2021-02-23 Maintenance
Option to run the K8s API private
2021-02-09 Maintenance
Upgraded several cluster components
2021-02-05 Maintenance
Auto-assigned Elastic IPs for K8s nodes (optional)
2021-02-02 Maintenance
Striving for more automation on the K8s reference solution
2021-01-26 Maintenance
Grafana main dashboard updated
2021-01-21 Maintenance
Velero S3 backups replication
2021-01-20 Maintenance
Monitoring upgrades
2021-01-12 Maintenance
Vault upgraded to 1.6.1
2020-12-18 Maintenance
Grafana main dashboard updated
2020-12-15 Maintenance
Upgraded Dex version with security patch
2020-12-14 Maintenance
New log shipper added - Fluent Bit
2020-12-14 Maintenance
Configurable default certificate and default backend on nginx-ingress
2020-12-08 Maintenance
Upgrade EKS to 1.18
2020-11-30 Maintenance
Fall component upgrades
2020-11-18 Maintenance
Support for GPU node pools in Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
2020-11-06 Maintenance
Support for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
2020-10-12 Maintenance
Vault upgraded to 1.5.4
2020-09-11 Maintenance
Grafana main dashboard updated
2020-09-03 Maintenance
Vault upgraded to 1.5.3
2020-09-03 Maintenance
Upgraded several cluster components
2020-09-03 Maintenance
Feature: NodeLocal DNSCache
2020-08-27 Maintenance
Monitoring for External-DNS
2020-08-14 Maintenance
Disable Nginx server token
2020-08-05 Maintenance
Updates for addons
2020-07-22 Maintenance
Vault upgraded to 1.5.0
2020-07-22 Maintenance
Upgrade EKS to 1.17
2020-07-10 Maintenance
Support Loki log-based alerting and metrics in Grafana
2020-06-18 Maintenance
Updates for authorization addons
2020-06-17 Maintenance
Update of ingress-nginx
2020-06-16 Maintenance
Upgraded monitoring plugins
2020-06-16 Maintenance
Update of Velero
2020-06-16 Maintenance
Migrating from kube2iam to IAM roles for Service Accounts (IRSA)
2020-06-05 Maintenance
Vault upgraded to 1.4.2
2020-06-05 Maintenance
Upgrade EKS to 1.16
2020-06-05 Maintenance
Cert-manger updated to 0.15.1
2020-05-20 Maintenance
Resizable persistent volumes
2020-05-19 Maintenance
Automated OpenVPN deployments
2020-05-13 Maintenance
Upgrades to monitoring & logging components
2020-05-13 Maintenance
Fix Services without Endpoints timeout instead of reject
2020-04-27 Maintenance
Update of cluster components
2020-04-16 Maintenance
Upgrade EKS to 1.15
2020-04-10 Maintenance
Migration to Helm 3
2020-04-01 Maintenance
Help fight COVID-19 with your Kubernetes cluster
2020-03-31 Maintenance
Upgrades to monitoring components
2020-03-27 Maintenance
Cluster addons upgrades
2020-03-27 Maintenance
Alert and documentation for NodeWithImpairedVolumes
2020-03-26 Maintenance
Use NetworkPolicies
2020-03-26 Maintenance
Upgrade of core EKS components
2020-02-25 Maintenance
Vault on K8s
2020-02-21 Maintenance
All secret data is now encrypted in our Kubernetes definition files
2020-02-11 Maintenance
Bugfix - Velero backups failing on some clusters
2020-02-11 Maintenance
Bugfix - Raise fs.inotify limits
2020-01-16 Maintenance
Allow runing K8s nodes and Concourse workers in public subnets
2020-01-15 Maintenance
Bugfix - loki-promtail wasn't scheduled on tainted nodes
2020-01-15 Maintenance
Bugfix - Grafana instability, increased memory request/limit
2019-12-12 Maintenance
Spot termination alerts on Slack
2019-12-12 Maintenance
Improved Prometheus-based ElasticSearch monitoring
2019-12-12 Maintenance
Fixed Kubernetes cluster-autoscaler ASG auto-detectionn
2019-12-05 Maintenance
Several other K8s Reference Solution improvemens
2019-12-05 Maintenance
Kubernetes monitoring upgrades
2019-12-05 Maintenance
Heavily reduced resource reservations for our default cluster Add-ons
2019-12-05 Maintenance
Better support for different AWS regions and AZs for our Kubernetes reference solution
2019-10-17 Maintenance
CVE-2019-11253
2019-09-30 Maintenance
Improved Kubernetes clusters automation
2019-09-25 Maintenance
Upgrade EKS to 1.14
2019-09-24 Maintenance
Upgrade Calico to 3.8.2
2019-09-05 Maintenance
Upgrade kops-based clusters to Kubernetes 1.11.10
2019-09-02 Maintenance
Upgrade to EKS 1.13
2019-08-29 Maintenance
Prometheus-blackbox-exporter available as optional cluster addon
2019-08-28 Maintenance
Redshift monitoring via Prometheus
2019-08-26 Maintenance
Neo4j monitoring via Prometheus
2019-08-20 Maintenance
Fix for dashboards HTTP 500 error when refreshing token
2019-08-19 Maintenance
A note on CVE-2019-11247
2019-08-12 Maintenance
Kubernetes dashboards ERR_TOO_MANY_REDIRECTS bug
2019-08-06 Maintenance
Kubernetes add-on upgrades
2019-08-01 Maintenance
We're moving to EKS
2019-07-16 Maintenance
Cluster and Persistent Volume backups with Velero 1.0
2019-07-09 Maintenance
SSO / OAuth2 overhaul
2019-04-17 Maintenance
Move to the AWS provided Kibana
2019-04-16 Maintenance
Update kube2iam to 0.10.7
2019-04-08 Maintenance
Increased monitoring alerts visibility
2019-03-29 Maintenance
Upgrade to Kubernetes 1.11.9 [CVE-2019-1002100, CVE-2019-9946, CVE-2019-3874, CVE-2019-1002101]
2019-03-19 Maintenance
Create simple AWS resources from K8s via the AWS Service Operator
2019-03-18 Maintenance
Support for cronjob monitoring
2019-03-06 Maintenance
Upgrade Kubernetes components
2019-03-06 Maintenance
Improved monitoring alerts on Slack
2019-02-21 Maintenance
Mongodb monitoring and dashboards
2019-02-19 Maintenance
Improved etcd backups
2019-02-18 Maintenance
CVE-2019-5736 - Rolling out patched runc
2019-01-21 Maintenance
Use encrypted EBS volumes for etcd storage and (optionally) encrypt k8s node root volumes
2019-01-15 Maintenance
Move to CoreDNS dns server and add gp2-encrypted StorageClass
2019-01-03 Maintenance
Upgrade to Kubernetes 1.11.6 [updated]
2018-12-03 Maintenance
Upgrade to Kubernetes 1.10.11 [updated]
2018-11-27 Maintenance
Set resource reservations for kubelet and other system processes
2018-11-21 Maintenance
Updated Prometheus & Grafana monitoring stack - update
2018-11-19 Maintenance
Updated Prometheus & Grafana monitoring stack
2018-11-13 Maintenance
Set resource requests and limits for all infrastructure pods
2018-11-13 Maintenance
Moving from kube-lego to cert-manager for automatic TLS certificates
2018-11-05 Maintenance
Grafana Pods dashboard updated memory metrics
2018-10-30 Maintenance
Releasing our user-level documentation repository
2018-10-23 Maintenance
K8S upgrade to stretch
2018-09-28 Maintenance
Teleport upgrade to 2.7.5
2018-09-28 Maintenance
Kubernetes cluster-autoscaler enabled
2018-09-25 Maintenance
Reduced number of NAT gateways
2018-09-25 Maintenance
Kubernetes Infrastructure Tools Upgraded
2018-09-20 Maintenance
Upgrade logging to Kibana and Elasticsearch 6.3
2018-09-12 Maintenance
Upgrade to Kubernetes 1.10
2018-08-25 Maintenance
Added AWS Inspector on Kubernetes cluster nodes