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Highlights

  • Highlights

    Highlights for the week ending February 19, 2021

    Managed apps

    • KEDA (Kubernetes Event-Driven Autoscaling) is now available as an app in the Playground Catalog. Some customers report significant resource optimizations and cost savings from using KEDA.

    • Fluent log shipping v0.5.5 was fixed to run using AWS Cloudwatch and S3. We also added the ability to use KIAM for Cloudwatch and updated the fluentd image.

    Web interface

    • The Apps section has been re-designed completely to provide faster access to all apps, independent of the catalog they belong to.

    Documentation

  • Highlights

    Highlights for the week ending February 5, 2021

    Managed apps

    External DNS v2.1.0 adds guardrails (dry-run mode, etc.) to help prevent misconfigurations to the recently released v2.0.0. External DNS v2.0.0 allows customers to install and use External DNS for their own purpose, separate from the preinstalled app in AWS and Azure clusters. :warning: Requires NGINX IC v1.14.0+.

    NGINX IC v1.14.0 is released to work with customer’s separate External DNS (see above).

    Cert Manager v2.4.2 provides the option to automatically delete secrets when the parent Certificate is deleted, reducing unnecessary alerts.

    K8s Initiator v0.9.2. adds flexibility by adding support for user-specific tolerations and customer RBAC rules. We also added usage examples to increase user-friendliness.

    Documentation

    We re-organized our documentation to make it easier for you to find the content you need. The new left-hand-side menu gives you a better overview and allows to jump quickly. Please visit https://docs.giantswarm.io/ and let us know what you think!

  • Highlights

    Highlights for the week ending January 29, 2021

    Managed apps

    NGINX Ingress Controller v1.13.0 now delivers upstream version 0.43.0.

    Prometheus Operator v0.6.0 fixes an out-of-memory issue that could occur on startup.

    Velero, an app that helps to backup, restore, and migrate clusters, is now available in the Playground Catalog.

    Documentation

    We added an article about more flexible IP address management using network pools, which was introduced on AWS with release v12.7.0.

  • Highlights

    Highlights for the week ending January 22, 2021

    General

    Please note that we are aligning some key terms in our product communication with the Kubernetes project’s terminology:

    • The term management cluster replaces the term control plane. The Kubernetes project uses the term control plane when dealing with the master nodes (as they were called formerly) of a cluster, so we are removing an ambiguity that confused people.
    • The API formerly called Control Plane Kubernetes API is now called Management API.
    • What we called tenant cluster is now called a workload cluster.

    For a comprehensive and always-updated view of all new features and changes for apps, tenant clusters, UI, and documentation, please check out Changes and Releases. Below are the highlights.

    Managed Apps

    Loki v0.1.0-alpha, our preferred app for log management is now available. Promtail, the logging client, is coming soon. Interested in Loki? We’d like to hear from you.

    Prometheus Operator v0.5.2 introduces a new AlertmanagerConfig CRD and upgrades to Prometheus v2.22.1.

    EFK Stack v0.4.1 came quickly after v0.4.0 to fix a small oversight. With v0.4.x Elasticsearch and Kibana are running in version v7.10.0.

    Cert Manager v2.4.1 fixes an issue causing Cert Manager to fail (makes backoffLimit for clusterissuer job configurable).

    Aqua v5.3.0 upgrades all charts to upstream 5.3 and introduces schema for validation of user values.

    Playground Apps

    Jaeger Operator v0.2.2 upgrades to the upstream chart v1.21.2 and jaeger-all-in-one to v1.21.0.

    kubectl gs

    • Added support for getting nodepools and removed mention of the unexistent ‘create cluster’ command.

This part of our documentation refers to our vintage product. The content may be not valid anymore for our current product. Please check our new documentation hub for the latest state of our docs.