As mentioned in our previous post, we removed Teleport from our environments (apart from the ones that were not ready to move away from it). For customers that had nothing else running on the tools environment we also cleaned up the networking. This will also save some costs for those customers.
Concourse CI has been upgraded to version 7.12.0. This update brings some small new features and improvements. Relevant Concourse CI changelog: https://github.com/concourse/concourse/releases/tag/v7.12.0
In order to streamline our colleague’s experiences, we are excited to announce that we have moved to Tailscale for secure remote access to our managed environments. Tailscale is a Zero Trust network that provides a lightweight, seamless yet secure experience for connecting to all the different networks and services we manage. This replaces the use of Teleport and OpenVPN for internal Skyscrapers’ use. Next up, we plan to evaluate replacement options for our customers’ VPN offering in the coming months.
More …Over the past months, we’ve gathered customer feedback and monitored Loki’s performance within our Kubernetes clusters. This process has highlighted recurring performance challenges. To address these, we are rolling out optimizations designed to enhance stability and performance. This post outlines the changes we’re making and the reasoning behind them. If you have any feedback or questions please don’t hesitate to reach out to us.
More …The following updates have been rolled out to all clusters. Notable updates include 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 are excited to announce a new version of our Security Policy to reflect the latest changes in our organization, continously improving our security practices. There are some significant changes, with emphasis on the introduction of the “Data Classification and Handling” and “Asset Management” policies. Furthermore, following these new policies, we have made this new version available via our public documentation website.
We’ve upgraded all Teleport clusters to 15.4.21. 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.
Feature: Automated Wiki Creation for Extra Notes
More …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.