As of now as an experimental feature, we added support for Thanos to enable multi-cluster Prometheus monitoring. This enables you to store your Prometheus metrics in a central place, which can be used to query, visualize metrics and write alerts based on data of multiple environments.
More …We have stopped building our own custom EKS AMI. As of now we directly rely on the upstream, AWS-provided image for EKS.
More …Update 2024-01-25: All changes have been rolled out.
More …In September last year we announced the addition of Karpenter as experimental feature. Since then we have been making improvements to our implementation and gradually used some pilots internally and with some customers. We are happy to announce that Karpenter is now deployed by default (via AWS Fargate) on all our EKS clusters and we’ve migrated the system NodePool to use it instead of the standard Cluster Autoscaler.
All Vault setups have been updated to the latest version 1.15.4. Please refer to the upstream changelogs to see what’s changed:
Update 2023-09-28: All clusters have been upgraded to v1.28.
After internal reflection and based on customer feedback, we’re disabling customer Slack notifications for infra level alerts by default. These are alerts which Skyscrapers is responsible for follow-up, and caused confusion with customers whether they needed to take action or not.
As part of our regular upgrade cycle, the following Kubernetes cluster components have been updated and our gradually rolling out to all our managed clusters.
More …We uncovered a bug in our VPA deployments were the VPA was no longer updating its recommendations. As effect the VPA was no longer updating the deployments it was managing.
More …We’ve upgraded all Teleport clusters from version 13.3.8 to 14.0.1. 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.
Update 2023-10-10: Upgrades have been applied on all clusters.
More …Historically we’ve been using Calico as controller to provide NetworkPolicies support. This was offered as an optional feature only, considering the resource (and thus possible cost) impact of running this component. As announced in our K8s 1.27 upgrade post, the latest version of the AWS VPC CNI, responsible for providing cluster networking, now has native support for NetworkPolicies built-in.
We’re adding support for GPU node pools in EKS. GPU nodes are great for compute-intensive workloads such as graphics and visualization workloads, or machine-learning processes. AWS uses the NVIDIA device plugin to make the GPU capacity of a node available to Kubernetes workloads.
More …Update 2023-09-28: All clusters have been upgraded to v1.27.
Karpenter is a new big feature that we offer in our AWS reference solution
More …We’ve upgraded all Teleport clusters from version 13.3.0 to 13.3.8. 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.
We’ve upgraded all Teleport clusters from version 13.0.3 to13.3.0. 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.
In an effort to further reduce the footprint of the reference solution we are no longer going to deploy the kubernetes-dashboard* by default. The Skyscrapers team is using k9s as a tool to manage our clusters and we think its a worhty replacement. This tool can just run in your terminal and doesn’t require any deployments on the K8s side. If you have this workload enabled today we will reach out to you to check if you are using this and take action based on your input.
More …Update 2023-07-18: These updates have been rolled out to all environments.
More …Update 2023-07-18: These updates have been rolled out to all environments.
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