Release Notes

Release 1.4 (June 2022)

• Migrated MCaaS Documentation to MKDocs
• Soft launch of Rancher for MCaas in Dev/test environments
  • Tenant read-only access to tenant namespaces
  • Helix Github OAuth integration
  • Rancher's Prometheus + Grafana monitoring and logging integration
• Tenant SSH tunnel data jumpboxes
• New methods added to MCaaS Jenkins Templating Engine Pipeline Libraries
  • JMeter
  • Migrate-Mongo
• Introduced S3 and ECR VPC endpoints to tenant environments
• Streamlined Route53 DNS configuration with the use of wildcard records
• Migrated to EKS managed node groups
• Updated mcaas-backend helm charts:
  • aws-calico - 0.3.10
  • aws-cloudwatch-metrics - 0.0.7
  • aws-ebs-csi-driver - 2.6.9
  • aws-efs-csi-driver - 2.2.6
  • aws-for-fluent-bit - 0.1.17
  • aws-load-balancer-controller - 1.4.2
  • cert-manager - v1.8.0
  • cluster-autoscaler - 9.19.1
  • datadog - 2.35.0
  • flagger - 1.21.0
  • fluxcd - 1.13.1
  • helm-operator - 1.4.2
  • ingress-nginx - 4.1.3
  • istio - 1.14.0
  • jenkins - 4.1.6
  • kube-state-metrics - 4.8.1
  • kubernetes-external-secrets - 8.5.5
  • metrics-server - 6.0.6
  • rancher - 2.6.5
  • sonarqube - 3.0.4

Release 1.36 (January 2022)

• Upgraded AWS EKS version from 1.20 to 1.21
• Migrated from ntp to chrony for server clock sync
• Built ami from aws eks ami v20211206
• Migrated Datadog accounts into datadog-gov.com
• Added support for AWS DocumentDB
• Added option for Linux ssh data jumpboxes
• Updated Jenkins Templating Engine from 1.7. to 2.3
• Updated mcaas-backend helm charts:
  • aws-calico - 0.3.10
  • aws-ebs-csi-driver - 2.6.2
  • aws-efs-csi-driver - 2.2.1
  • cert-manager - v1.6.1
  • cluster-autoscaler - 9.11.0
  • datadog - 2.28.13
  • flagger - 1.16.1
  • fluxcd - 1.11.4
  • helm-operator - 1.4.1
  • ingress-nginx - 4.0.13
  • istio - 1.12.1
  • jenkins - 3.10.2
  • kube-state-metrics - 4.2.2
  • kubernetes-external-secrets - 8.5.1
  • metrics-server - 5.10.12
  • mongodb-ea-operator - 1.12.0

Release 1.33 (July 2021)

• Upgraded AWS EKS version from 1.19 to 1.20
• Added new Kubernetes resource, Job
• Implemented various platform enhancements, security updates and bug fixes
• Added support for MongoDB

Release 1.32 (May 2021)

• Upgraded AWS EKS version from 1.18 to 1.19
• Added support for Persistent Volumes (EFS)
• Enabled CloudTrail across all environments for better logging
• Implemented Datadog upgrades to enable more dashboarding capability
• Implemented various platform enhancements and bug fixes

Release 1.31 (March 2021)

MCaaS:

• Upgraded AWS EKS version from 1.17 to 1.18
• Added MSK data service (Beta)
• Added ElastiCache data service (Beta)
• Added ElasticSearch data service (Beta)
• Added SNS data service (Beta)
• Added SQS data service(Beta)
• Implemented Datadog upgrades to enable more dashboarding capability
• Implemented various platform enhancements and bug fixes

GSA-SecDevOps:

• Replaced Cylance agent with Endgame agent

Release 1.0 (Nov 2020)

New Features

• Implemented Service Mesh
• Implemented Advanced Deployment Strategies
• Added Datadog as our primary Observability tool
• Added the ability for autoscaling
• Misc. backend configurations