Changes related to our Kubernetes offering

• Overhauled EKS access control 03 Apr 2024

• Upgrading EKS clusters to v1.29 28 Mar 2024

• Use direct AWS EKS AMI instead of SkS custom-build 22 Jan 2024

• Upgraded cluster add-ons 19 Jan 2024

• Karpenter now deployed by default and migrated system pool 11 Jan 2024

• Upgrading EKS clusters to v1.28 05 Dec 2023

• Upgraded cluster add-ons 07 Nov 2023

• Upgraded cluster add-ons 05 Oct 2023

• Removed Calico as NetworkPolicies engine - this functionality has merged with the AWS VPC CNI 29 Sep 2023

• Support for GPU node pools on AWS (EKS) 29 Sep 2023

• Upgrading K8s clusters to v1.27 20 Sep 2023

• New experimental component Karpenter for cost-effective node scaling 11 Sep 2023

• Disable kubernetes-dashboard by default 19 Jul 2023

• Upgraded cluster add-ons 14 Jul 2023

• Upgraded cluster add-ons 07 Jul 2023

• Dedicated system node pool + reduced system component footprint 05 Jul 2023

• Upgrading K8s clusters to v1.26 22 Jun 2023

• Post-mortem - A word on Pods stuck with ContainerCreating status problems 30 May 2023

• Upgraded fluent-bit and moving to built-in loki output 25 May 2023

• Upgraded cluster add-ons for monitoring & logging 11 May 2023

• [Action required] Update external-dns behavior for private Route53 zones 10 May 2023

• Upgraded cluster add-ons 04 May 2023

• Istio upgraded to version 1.16.4 17 Apr 2023

• Defaulting to capacity-optimized for Spot nodepools 31 Mar 2023

• [Action required] Upgrades starting for K8s clusters to 1.25 30 Mar 2023

• Upgraded EKS cluster add-ons 27 Mar 2023

• Istio upgraded to version 1.16.3 16 Mar 2023

• INFO - Empty response for external.metrics.k8s.io/v1beta1 errors with kubectl and helm 01 Mar 2023

• Post Mortem - Loki log loss 28 Feb 2023

• Upgraded cluster add-ons 20 Feb 2023

• Improving Loki performance & scalability 13 Feb 2023

• Node Termination Handler Slack notifications disabled by default (AWS EKS) 03 Feb 2023

• Upgraded K8s clusters to 1.24 27 Jan 2023

• Upgraded cluster add-ons 21 Dec 2022

• Istio upgraded to version 1.16.1 13 Dec 2022

• New feature: Use External-DNS for managing custom DNS records 13 Dec 2022

• New feature: Kubernetes descheduler 21 Nov 2022

• Upgraded cluster add-ons 18 Nov 2022

• Upgraded K8s clusters to 1.23 17 Nov 2022

• Upgraded ingress-nginx, fixing CVE-2022-32149, CVE-2022-27664 and CVE-2022-1996 10 Nov 2022

• Upgraded monitoring add-ons, fixing Grafana CVE-2022-32149 09 Nov 2022

• AWS EKS AMI recalled 04 Nov 2022

• CVE-2022-27665 patches 18 Oct 2022

• NLB compatibility in Nginx Ingress 17 Oct 2022

• Istio upgraded to version 1.15.2 17 Oct 2022

• Upgraded cluster add-ons 06 Oct 2022

• New feature: Jaeger tracing 06 Oct 2022

• Add support for hierarchical namespaces 27 Sep 2022

• Upgraded cluster add-ons 10 Aug 2022

• Upgraded AKS and EKS clusters to 1.22 25 Jul 2022

• Upgraded cluster add-ons 12 Jul 2022

• Calico NetworkPolicy controller upgraded on EKS 23 Jun 2022

• Major Nginx Ingress Controller upgrade 14 Jun 2022

• Replacing eventrouter component for persisting K8s events 07 Jun 2022

• Improving Loki performance and usability 25 May 2022

• Upgraded cluster add-ons 12 May 2022

• [Action required] Final call - Deprecated API removal, upgrade your Ingresses etc. 05 May 2022

• Improved node termination handling (AWS EKS) 26 Apr 2022

• Add support for GP3 volumes through the AWS EBS CSI driver 13 Apr 2022

• Internal refactor of monitoring addons 08 Apr 2022

• Upgrade Nginx Ingress, fixing CVEs 04 Apr 2022

• Upgrade to Grafana v8 - take 2 01 Apr 2022

• Istio upgraded to version 1.13.2 21 Mar 2022

• Upgraded cluster add-ons 17 Mar 2022

• Horizontal event-based scaling with KEDA 11 Mar 2022

• Hotfix for Grafana and InfoInhibitor alert info 03 Mar 2022

• Allow for more fine-tuning of cluster-autoscaler params 01 Mar 2022

• AKS component upgrades 01 Mar 2022

• EKS component upgrades 01 Mar 2022

• Upgraded Grafana and Prometheus 24 Feb 2022

• Github Actions Runner Controller 07 Feb 2022

• AKS rollouts are now automated 07 Feb 2022

• Calico NetworkPolicy controller upgraded on EKS 02 Feb 2022

• VPA enabled by for metrics-server 28 Jan 2022

• Adding support for the AWS Load Balancer controller 27 Jan 2022

• Standardizing on Fluent Bit and Loki updates 21 Jan 2022

• VPA enabled for Vault 07 Jan 2022

• Add support for mixed node pools in EKS 16 Dec 2021

• Monitoring for Grafana Loki in case of discarded logs 16 Dec 2021

• Add support for AWS Secrets Manager in EKS 10 Dec 2021

• Upgraded cluster add-ons 06 Dec 2021

• Istio upgraded to version 1.12.0 25 Nov 2021

• Introducing alerts for Fluent Bit errors 15 Nov 2021

• A note on Let's Encrypt chain issues due to DST Root CA X3 expiry 11 Oct 2021

• Grafana security patch following High Severity CVE-2021-39226 07 Oct 2021

• Upgraded cluster add-ons 27 Sep 2021

• Guaranteed QoS for all critical system and infrastructure Pods 27 Sep 2021

• Improved EC2 instance interruption notifications 20 Sep 2021

• Upgrade AKS and EKS clusters to 1.21. Actions to take! 16 Sep 2021

• Istio upgraded to version 1.11.2 13 Sep 2021

• Mute critical KubeAPIErrorBudgetBurn alerts 10 Sep 2021

• VPA enabled by default 09 Sep 2021

• Downgraded Grafana to v7.5 07 Sep 2021

• Cert-manager upgraded to 1.4.4 06 Sep 2021

• Upgraded cluster components & increased Pod density. Actions to take! 10 Aug 2021

• Reduced memory usage of Cluster Autoscaler 04 Aug 2021

• Using encryption at rest for Prometheus and Alertmanager 19 Jul 2021

• Pod Disruption Budget for CoreDNS 06 Jul 2021

• Using Telepresence in our Reference Solution 24 Jun 2021

• GP2-encrypted is now the default storageclass 18 Jun 2021

• Always use encryption at rest for OpenVPN storage 14 Jun 2021

• Support for RabbitMQ and AmazonMQ monitoring 10 Jun 2021

• Upgrade AKS and EKS clusters to 1.20 04 Jun 2021

• Istio dashboards in Grafana 03 Jun 2021

• Istio upgraded to version 1.10.0 27 May 2021

• Upgraded several cluster components 18 May 2021

• Adding support for EFS backed Persistent Volumes in Kubernetes 18 May 2021

• Extra alerts for excessive resource usage 11 May 2021

• Merging AKS and EKS reference solution codebases and improving automation 10 May 2021

• Adding support for Istio service mesh 14 Apr 2021

• Upgraded several cluster components (patch-level) 06 Apr 2021

• Upgrade AKS and EKS clusters to 1.19 30 Mar 2021

• Monitoring upgrades 23 Mar 2021

• Upgraded several cluster components 16 Mar 2021

• Improved monitoring alerts on Slack 10 Mar 2021

• Fixed regression in Elasticsearch monitoring for Prometheus 05 Mar 2021

• You can now use local NVMe Instance Storage with your Pods on EKS 04 Mar 2021

• Option to run the K8s API private 23 Feb 2021

• Upgraded several cluster components 09 Feb 2021

• Auto-assigned Elastic IPs for K8s nodes (optional) 05 Feb 2021

• Striving for more automation on the K8s reference solution 02 Feb 2021

• Grafana main dashboard updated 26 Jan 2021

• Grafana main dashboard updated 18 Dec 2020

• Upgraded Dex version with security patch 15 Dec 2020

• Configurable default certificate and default backend on nginx-ingress 14 Dec 2020

• New log shipper added - Fluent Bit 14 Dec 2020

• Upgrade EKS to 1.18 08 Dec 2020

• Fall component upgrades 30 Nov 2020

• Support for GPU node pools in Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) 18 Nov 2020

• Support for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) 06 Nov 2020

• Improved monitoring for Kubernetes backups 16 Oct 2020

• Use the Vertical Pod Autoscaler to make your life easier and optimise cluster costs 08 Oct 2020

• Kubernetes events now available in Loki 17 Sep 2020

• Grafana main dashboard updated 11 Sep 2020

• Feature: NodeLocal DNSCache 03 Sep 2020

• Upgraded several cluster components 03 Sep 2020

• Monitoring for External-DNS 27 Aug 2020

• Disable Nginx server token 14 Aug 2020

• Updates for addons 05 Aug 2020

• Upgrade EKS to 1.17 22 Jul 2020

• Support Loki log-based alerting and metrics in Grafana 10 Jul 2020

• Update of ingress-nginx 17 Jun 2020

• Migrating from kube2iam to IAM roles for Service Accounts (IRSA) 16 Jun 2020

• Update of Velero 16 Jun 2020

• Upgrade EKS to 1.16 05 Jun 2020

• Additional Concourse monitoring 05 Jun 2020

• Cert-manger updated to 0.15.1 05 Jun 2020

• Resizable persistent volumes 20 May 2020

• Monitoring RDS instances through Prometheus 19 May 2020

• Automated OpenVPN deployments 19 May 2020

• Upgrades to monitoring & logging components 13 May 2020

• Fix Services without Endpoints timeout instead of reject 13 May 2020

• Option to configure custom routes and endpoints in Alertmanager 12 May 2020

• Option to add an internal-only Ingress controller 07 May 2020

• Loki - Option to set custom labels in Promtail 06 May 2020

• Oauth-proxy security fix following High Severity CVE-20200-11052 06 May 2020

• Update of cluster components 27 Apr 2020

• Upgrade EKS to 1.15 16 Apr 2020

• Adjusting the NodeFilesystemSpaceFillingUp Prometheus alert 16 Apr 2020

• Improved Slack notifications for Prometheus alerts 16 Apr 2020

• Migration to Helm 3 10 Apr 2020

• Help fight COVID-19 with your Kubernetes cluster 01 Apr 2020

• Upgrades to monitoring components 31 Mar 2020

• Cluster addons upgrades 27 Mar 2020

• Alert and documentation for NodeWithImpairedVolumes 27 Mar 2020

• Upgrade of core EKS components 26 Mar 2020

• Use NetworkPolicies 26 Mar 2020

• All secret data is now encrypted in our Kubernetes definition files 21 Feb 2020

• Bugfix - Velero backups failing on some clusters 11 Feb 2020

• Bugfix - Raise fs.inotify limits 11 Feb 2020

• Bugfix - loki-promtail wasn't scheduled on tainted nodes 15 Jan 2020

• Bugfix - Grafana instability, increased memory request/limit 15 Jan 2020

• Fixed Kubernetes cluster-autoscaler ASG auto-detectionn 12 Dec 2019

• Improved Prometheus-based ElasticSearch monitoring 12 Dec 2019

• Spot termination alerts on Slack 12 Dec 2019

• Several other K8s Reference Solution improvemens 05 Dec 2019

• Better support for different AWS regions and AZs for our Kubernetes reference solution 05 Dec 2019

• Heavily reduced resource reservations for our default cluster Add-ons 05 Dec 2019

• Kubernetes monitoring upgrades 05 Dec 2019

• Moving from Calico to the AWS VPC CNI for EKS clusters 22 Oct 2019

• Introducing Grafana Loki to the k8s reference solution 17 Oct 2019

• CVE-2019-11253 17 Oct 2019

• Improved Kubernetes clusters automation 30 Sep 2019

• Upgrade EKS to 1.14 25 Sep 2019

• Upgrade Calico to 3.8.2 24 Sep 2019

• Upgrade kops-based clusters to Kubernetes 1.11.10 05 Sep 2019

• Upgrade to EKS 1.13 02 Sep 2019

• Prometheus-blackbox-exporter available as optional cluster addon 29 Aug 2019

• Redshift monitoring via Prometheus 28 Aug 2019

• Neo4j monitoring via Prometheus 26 Aug 2019

• Fix for dashboards HTTP 500 error when refreshing token 20 Aug 2019

• A note on CVE-2019-11247 19 Aug 2019

• Kubernetes dashboards ERR_TOO_MANY_REDIRECTS bug 12 Aug 2019

• Kubernetes add-on upgrades 06 Aug 2019

• We're moving to EKS 01 Aug 2019

• Cluster and Persistent Volume backups with Velero 1.0 16 Jul 2019

• SSO / OAuth2 overhaul 09 Jul 2019

• Move to the AWS provided Kibana 17 Apr 2019

• Update kube2iam to 0.10.7 16 Apr 2019

• Increased monitoring alerts visibility 08 Apr 2019

• Upgrade to Kubernetes 1.11.9 [CVE-2019-1002100, CVE-2019-9946, CVE-2019-3874, CVE-2019-1002101] 29 Mar 2019

• Create simple AWS resources from K8s via the AWS Service Operator 19 Mar 2019

• Support for cronjob monitoring 18 Mar 2019

• Upgrade Kubernetes components 06 Mar 2019

• Improved monitoring alerts on Slack 06 Mar 2019

• Mongodb monitoring and dashboards 21 Feb 2019

• Improved etcd backups 19 Feb 2019

• CVE-2019-5736 - Rolling out patched runc 18 Feb 2019

• Use encrypted EBS volumes for etcd storage and (optionally) encrypt k8s node root volumes 21 Jan 2019

• Move to CoreDNS dns server and add gp2-encrypted StorageClass 15 Jan 2019

• Upgrade to Kubernetes 1.11.6 [updated] 03 Jan 2019

• Upgrade to Kubernetes 1.10.11 [updated] 03 Dec 2018

• Set resource reservations for kubelet and other system processes 27 Nov 2018

• Updated Prometheus & Grafana monitoring stack - update 21 Nov 2018

• Updated Prometheus & Grafana monitoring stack 19 Nov 2018

• Moving from kube-lego to cert-manager for automatic TLS certificates 13 Nov 2018

• Set resource requests and limits for all infrastructure pods 13 Nov 2018

• Grafana Pods dashboard updated memory metrics 05 Nov 2018

• Kubernetes cluster-autoscaler enabled 28 Sep 2018

• Kubernetes Infrastructure Tools Upgraded 25 Sep 2018

• Reduced number of NAT gateways 25 Sep 2018

• Upgrade logging to Kibana and Elasticsearch 6.3 20 Sep 2018

• Upgrade to Kubernetes 1.10 12 Sep 2018

• Reduced logging verbosity for system components 29 Aug 2018

• Better networking monitoring 28 Aug 2018

• Added AWS Inspector on Kubernetes cluster nodes 25 Aug 2018

• OIDC proxy for Kubernetes dashboard and other endpoints 31 Jul 2018