we’ve integrated open-source dashboards taking advantage of the newest features in Grafana to our setup. These dashboards are designed to help you monitor your services and infrastructure more effectively. They are available in your Grafana under the SRE section. Here is a quick overview of the new dashboards:
We’re excited to announce that we are now using OpenTofu version 1.8.3 to deploy our environments. This release includes several bug fixes and new features that we can leverage going forward. No action is needed on your part, as the upgrade is part of our automation processes. Most of our codebases still allow using OpenTofu >= 1.6. If you encounter any issues or have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact us.
More …We’re excited to announce that Dependabot has been integrated into our GitHub repositories to ensure our Terragrunt and OpenTofu modules stay up to date. Dependabot will automatically scan our repositories for outdated dependencies and generate pull requests to update them. This proactive approach helps us maintain the security and stability of our modules while keeping them current with the latest features and bug fixes. No action is needed on your part, Dependabot will handle the pull requests, and we’ll take care of reviewing, adjusting, and merging them.
The following updates have been rolled out to non-production clusters, and will be pushed to production in the coming week. Notable updates include the major release of Karpenter v1 and improvements across various add-ons, ensuring enhanced performance and security. This is also a reminder to for Actions to take regarding the Grafana AngularJS deprecation!
More …We’re happy to announce we’re finally upgrading to the latest version of Concourse CI, v7.11.2, which brings a lot of new features and improvements. Considering this is quite a substantial upgrade, we will get in touch with each customer individually in the coming weeks to start the upgrade process. This will also incur Concourse downtime, so we will work with you to find the best time to do this.
More …We’ve upgraded all Teleport clusters to 15.4.16. 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 to the new version when new instances are launched. You can find more information on this release in the Teleport changelog.
Update 2024-08-20: These changes have been rolled out to all clusters.
More …In an effort to improve our documentation for the cloud resources we deploy for our customers, we are pleased to announce the integration of a GitHub action into your repositories, streamlining the generation of documentation for your cloud resources ensuring up-to-date and accurate documentation with minimal manual intervention.
More …We’ve upgraded all Teleport clusters to 15.4.9. 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 to the new version when new instances are launched. You can find more information on this release in the Teleport changelog.
We are happy to announce that we have integrated Atlantis into our GitHub repositories. Atlantis is a tool that helps us all to automate Terragrunt/OpenTofu workflows by running commands in response to GitHub pull requests.
More …Update 2024-07-17: These changes have been rolled out to all clusters.
More …In an effort to improve our documentation and make it more accessible, we are excited to announce that our documentation is now available on https://docs.skyscrapers.eu.
In the face of DockerHub’s rate limits and the need for more integrated automation, the decision was made to migrate our Docker images from DockerHub to GitHub Container Registry (GHCR). This transition not only avoids DockerHub’s constraints but also leverages GitHub Actions for seamless build automation.
More …We are rolling out EKS v1.30. Please make sure to update to our recommended client versions matching this upgrade.
We’ve upgraded several components, most notably Karpenter, mid cycle to fix several bugs. This resolves the AWS notice regarding a defect in Karpenter’s AMI drift detection logic, which could lead to unexpected, unneeded, node replacements. We have rolled out the update to all our managed environments.
More …We are excited to announce that we have configured the CloudWatch integration in Grafana by default. This allows you to query and visualize your AWS CloudWatch metrics in Grafana. This is especially useful if you are already using Grafana for monitoring and want to have all your metrics in one place.
More …We are excited to introduce Flux, a powerful GitOps tool for Kubernetes, to our platform. It is designed to keep your Kubernetes clusters in sync based on the configuration in git and to automate updates to configuration when Flux detects it. If you think this could be useful for your team, get in touch with us so we can enable it on your cluster(s), and offer you guidance and training on how to leverage it for your use-case.
More …We’ve upgraded all Teleport clusters to 15.3.7. 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 to the new version when new instances are launched. You can find more information on this release in the Teleport changelog. In particular, several high-level security fixes were done in 15.3.6
As part of our regular upgrade cycle, the following Kubernetes cluster components have been updated and have been rolled out to all our managed clusters. Highlight of this update is Loki v3.0, which brings a lot of new features and performance improvements, one of which is the enabling of query results and chunk caching. If you haven’t done yet, please also make sure to verify the actions to take from our previous changelog regarding Grafana deprecations!
More …In the ever-evolving landscape of infrastructure as code (IaC), staying adaptable and proactive is crucial. Our latest initiative involves transitioning from Terraform to OpenTofu, driven primarily by the recent licensing changes introduced in Terraform version 1.6.0 and beyond. Today we are happy to announce we have fully migrated to OpenTofu with version 1.6.2.
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