Updates for addons
We have updated the following components on our Kubernetes clusters:
More …Concourse upgraded to v6.4.0
We have upgraded our Concourse setups to the latest version 6.4.0 (from version 6.2.0).
More …Vault upgraded to 1.5.0
We have updated our Kubernetes based Vault setups from 1.4.2 to the latest version 1.5.0.
Upgrade EKS to 1.17
With the major K8s 1.16 from last month just behind us, we now have updated our EKS control planes and nodes to the latest supported version: 1.17. This brings EKS on K8s v1.17.6.
Support Loki log-based alerting and metrics in Grafana
It’s now possible to use Loki log metrics in standard Grafana panels (i.e. gauges, simple graphs, bar graphs, etc.). Additionally, you can also create alerts based on those graphs, with the built-in alerting system in Grafana.
More …Updated docker images
We have updated the docker images that we internally use. We have made the following changes:
More …Updated Teleport to version 4.2.10
We’ve updated all Teleport clusters and nodes to version 4.2.10. This update mainly contains bug fixes and performance improvements.
More …Upgraded all ECS clusters
We’ve rolled out all our ECS worker nodes with updated OS and ECS agent. These updates mainly contained bug fixes, security patches and performance improvements.
More …Updates for authorization addons
We have updated our monitoring plugins on our Kubernetes clusters.
More …Update of ingress-nginx
We have updated the ingress-nginx component to 0.33.0 and its chart to the latest version (2.6.0)
More …Migrating from kube2iam to IAM roles for Service Accounts (IRSA)
Since the beginnning when we started rolling out our K8s-based reference solution towards customers, we’ve been handling application access to AWS resources via kube2iam.
More …Update of Velero
We have updated the Velero cluster components to 1.4.0. Velero is responsible for taking cluster backups.
Upgraded monitoring plugins
We have updated our monitoring plugins on our Kubernetes clusters.
More …Vault upgraded to 1.4.2
We have updated our Kubernetes based Vault setups from 1.3.2 to the latest version 1.4.2.
More …Upgrade EKS to 1.16
We have updated our EKS control planes and nodes to the latest supported version: 1.16. This brings EKS on K8s v1.16.8.
More …Additional Concourse monitoring
We’ve enhanced the way we monitoring Concourse setups by adding new alerts for workers state along with endpoint monitoring for the Concourse web UI.
More …Cert-manger updated to 0.15.1
We have updated cert-manager from v0.13.1 to v0.15.1, bringing a number of new features and improvements. Cert-manager is the component responsible for providing you automatic certificates through for example LetsEncrypt.
More …Upgrade Concourse to version 6.2.0 and other improvements
We have upgraded our Concourse solution to the latest version V6.2.0. In the meanwhile we have changed the workers from Ubuntu 16.04 based AMIs to Amazon Linux AMIs so its more in line with our offering.
More …Resizable persistent volumes
We updated the defaults for our persistent volume storage classes to allow for volume expansion. This allows you to Modify the volume in your PersistentVolumeClaim without the need to replace the existing volume.
More …Monitoring RDS instances through Prometheus
Up until now we’ve been monitoring our managed RDS instances through Icinga, which has been working great. But for Kubernetes customers, we’ve been relying on Prometheus more and more to monitor external services, as well as the cluster itself. So it just makes sense that we also monitor RDS instances through it.
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