Upgraded several cluster components
As part of our regular upgrade cycle, the following Kubernetes cluster components have been updated. We’ve already rolled these out to all non-prod clusters and production will follow in the coming days.
More …Adding support for EFS backed Persistent Volumes in Kubernetes
We’ve added a new component to our AWS Kubernetes reference solution, the EFS CSI driver. This adds support for using EFS file systems in EKS clusters with PersistentVolumes.
Concourse upgraded to v7.2.0
We have upgraded our Concourse setups to the latest version 7.2.0
More …Vault upgraded to 1.7.1
We are in the process of upgrading our Kubernetes based Vault setups to the latest version 1.7.1.
Extra alerts for excessive resource usage
Our monitoring solution fires a number of alerts notifying of the application and cluster’s health.
More …Updated Teleport to version 4.4.9
We’ve updated all Teleport clusters and nodes to version 4.4.9. This update mainly contains bug fixes and performance improvements.
More …Merging AKS and EKS reference solution codebases and improving automation
Since the end of 2020 we’ve started supporting Azure AKS environments, next to our already fleshed out offering around Amazon EKS. What initially started as a proof of concept has become bigger and bigger.
More …Adding support for Istio service mesh
We now support Istio service mesh for all customers using our Kubernetes Reference Solution (AWS EKS and Azure AKS). A service mesh makes it easier to connect, secure and observe micro-services.
More …Upgraded several cluster components (patch-level)
We’ve upgraded several addons to their latest patch-level so important bugfixes are included:
More …Vault upgraded to 1.7.0
We are in the process of upgrading our Kubernetes based Vault setups to the latest version 1.7.0.
Upgrade AKS and EKS clusters to 1.19
We have started rolling out AKS and EKS 1.19. This brings AKS on Kubernetes v1.19.7 and EKS on Kubernetes v1.19.6-eks-49a6c0.
Monitoring upgrades
As part of our regular upgrade cycle, the following Kubernetes cluster components will be updated in the next rollout. These updates are being rolled out to all clusters and will be finished by the end of the week.
More …Concourse upgraded to v7.1.0
We have upgraded our Concourse setups to the latest version 7.1.0
More …Upgraded several cluster components
As part of our regular upgrade cycle, the following Kubernetes cluster components have been updated. We’ve already rolled these out to all clusters.
More …Improved monitoring alerts on Slack
We have updated the format of the monitoring Slack notifications. We now differentiate between warning and critical alerts with a visual color and we changed the output of the alert from the summary to the full description to give more information in the alert.
More …Fixed regression in Elasticsearch monitoring for Prometheus
We discovered an issue with our Elasticsearch monitoring for Prometheus that was introduced a while back in a rutinary chart upgrade. Because of this problem some Elasticsearch metrics were not being reported into Prometheus, like available storage space for example, and as a result there were some problematic situations in an Elasticsearch cluster that we didn’t pick up in time.
More …You can now use local NVMe Instance Storage with your Pods on EKS
Certain AWS EC2 instances come with fast local NVMe Instance Storage and can usually be recognized with the d suffix (eg. m5d.large). Our platform will now automatically mount these volumes under the /ephemeralX paths (eg. /ephemeral0, /ephemeral1, …).
Option to run the K8s API private
As of today we have the option to only allow access to the Kubernetes API over a private network connection.
More …New container to authenticate to aws-ecr
We added a new docker image called concourse-ecr-login. This image has the AWS cli and docker installed.
Upgraded several cluster components
As part of our regular upgrade cycle, the following Kubernetes cluster components have been updated. We’ve already rolled these out to all clusters.
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