Highlights for the week ending April 30, 2021

General

Upstream recently announced another change to the end of life (EOL) date of Kubernetes 1.18. The last patch for v1.18 will be published May 12th 2021. Our interfaces have been updated to reflect that.

Managed apps

EFK v0.5.1 upgrades to Open Distro for Elasticsearch v1.13.2.

Prometheus Operator v0.8.0 upgrades to kube-prometheus-stack v15.2.0, which includes Prometheus v2.26.0.

NGINX IC v1.16.1 is now more flexible, allowing you to change any annotation you want, for example, the AWS LoadBalancer Type.

Cert Manager v2.6.0 adds support for DNS01 challenge, allowing gigantic.io certificates to work behind a firewall. It simplifies creation of installations on-premises. Prior, Cert Manager v2.5.0 upgrades to upstream v1.2.0.

Aqua v5.3.5 upgrades to container image v5.3.21119.

Docs

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We updated these docs to reflect recent improvements: Advanced ingress configuration, The Giant Swarm App Platform, and Prepare an Azure subscription to run Giant Swarm workload clusters.