Platform September 2024 Release

Adds preview environment controls (pause/resume, scheduling), two US regions, OCI Cloud support (incl GPUs), GCP & Azure BYOC enhancements, enhanced UI/performance, better resource management, new addon features, and various bug fixes for GitHub deployments and builds.

Preview Environments

• Added support for pausing and resuming preview environments
  • Clicking pause scales down all resources belonging to that environment
• Preview templates in BYOC projects can have active hours assigned
  • Previews automatically scale up/down at set times and days
  • Configurable for entire pipeline or individual previews
• Added automatic deletion configuration for previews
  • Timer can be reset when template is run
  • Configurable for pipeline or individual previews
• Improved concurrency policy enforcement on environment level, runs are now queued per environment
• Added option to toggle ignoring draft pull requests in preview template/release flow git triggers

Performance Improvements

• Improved template visual editor performance for large templates
• Enhanced platform performance when loading project contexts
• Improved template validation speed
• Fixed slow loading of release flow run overrides UI when many overrides were present

Cloud Infrastructure

• Added two new PaaS regions: us-west and us-east
• Added support for Azure local NVMe disks enhancing performance and reduces costs
• Added support for OCI cloud clusters and OCI GPUs
• Added cross-account service accounts for GCP BYOC integrations making it more secure and easier to adopt
• Improved handling of Azure provisioning errors
• Added validation for adequate Azure system node pool resources
• Added support for draining and cordoning nodes and node pools

Resource Management

• Fixed deletion of dangling platform resources on deleted BYOC clusters
• Made volume storage requirements clearer for templates and API
• Fixed race condition where builds could trigger twice for same commit
• Enhanced validation of custom BYOA annotations, ensuring only string values can be submitted
• Added live certificate renewal for addons allowing certificate refresh without downtime

User Experience

• Improved error display in templates showing brief error summary without clicking individual nodes
• Added clipboard options when viewing template runs:
  • Copy node's spec
  • Copy node's response
  • Copy entire node
• Added link to create new cluster when viewing BYOC integration
• Improved error messaging for expired Azure credentials
• Added user alerts for BYOC cluster and node pool provisioning errors via notifications

Addons and Integration

• Added support for RabbitMQ Web-MQTT and Web-AMQP plugins
• Added "latest" as fork source option for addon provisioning via templates enabling preview environments to always use latest data
• Added support for searching backup selection dropdown

Bug Fixes

• Fixed issue preventing resource selection in template 'action' node
• Resolved build initiation failures for old commits
• Improved GitHub deployment cleanup preventing orphaned deployments when Northflank resources are deleted