Akuity Platform Changelog
Information on the latest updates and additions to the Akuity Platform.
2024-02-16
Argo CD v2.10 support
Argo CD v2.10+ is now available on the Akuity Platform.
Audit Log Archive
Audit log archives can be downloaded using the Akuity Platform portal.
Cluster Customizations
Cluster customization user interface has been improved and now allows customizing all images used by the Akuity Agent.
2023-12-06
ApplicationSet caching improvement and refresh action
The ApplicationSet caching mechanism has been improved, allowing for quicker discovery of changes in Git repositories. Additionally, the Argo CD UI now provides a "Refresh" action for ApplicationSets, allowing manual triggering of the ApplicationSet reconciliation.
2023-11-27
Argo CD Instance Level Audit Log
The Audit Log is now available at the Argo CD instance level.
2023-11-16
Unified declarative management of Akuity Platform
The akuity
CLI/API allows for declaratively manage Argo CD custom Kubernetes resources such as Applications, ApplicationSets,
and AppProjects. This makes Akuity Platform declarative management feature complete and allows to declarative defining of
all Akuity Managed Argo CD instances as well as all instance settings.
feat: support declarative management of argocd applications, applicationsets, appprojects via akuity cli #3411
Additional SSO providers support
Akuity Platform portal now supports Google, SAML, and OIDC identity providers in addition to Okta and Azure.
2023-10-24
UI Wizard For Agent Manifests Customizations
In addition to a generic YAML editor, the Akuity Platform now provides a UI wizard. The wizard covers the most common Akuity Agent manifests customizations such as workload resource requests, environment variables, and log levels.
Custom SSO support
It is now possible to use a custom SSO provider to access the Akuity Platform.
Audit Log Improvements
The Audit Log component received several improvements and now provides more details about audit events. The changes include information about Kubernetes resources group and kind, Git revision in sync events, and proper visualization of API key actors.
AI Assistant Improvements
AI Assistant prompts have been fine-tuned which ensures more useful answers. The AI Assistant user interface has been improved as well. The interface is now compatible with Argo CD dark mode and enables users to provide feedback about conversations for further analysis.
Repo Server Delegate Improvements
Repo Server Delegate is a feature that allows "delegating" Git operations to a particular cluster agent. The implementation has been significantly improved and provides better performance and reliability with much less traffic between managed clusters and the control plane.
Argo CD Instance Settings Enhancements
The Akuity Platform user interface allows managing more Argo CD instance settings. The new settings include expiration time for SSO tokens, egress settings for control plane components, as well as improved validation of RBAC policies.
Declarative Management
Declarative Management functionality allows managing an additional set of settings, such as config management plugins and
ApplicationSet
secrets holding credentials for interaction with Git service providers. The declarative management functionality
is now available by default and doesn't need to be explicitly enabled.
2023-07-25
Tanka and Helmfile First Class Support
Akuity Platform now allows configuring Tanka and Helmfile with one click of a button.
AI Assistant Extension
AI Assistant helps engineers to explore and troubleshoot Argo CD applications inside the Argo CD UI.
2023-06-28
Enhanced Argo CD Version with Server Side Pagination
Starting with Argo CD v2.7.3 Akuity Platform provides an enhanced Akuity version of Argo CD with additional features. The most notable feature is the server-side pagination for the Argo CD Applications page. This feature significantly improves Argo CD API and UI scalability and allows you to manage up to 50,000 Argo CD applications!
Improved Declarative Configuration Management of Argo CD Instances
The Akuity CLI now supports managing all Argo CD instance settings declaratively, including accounts, repository credentials, secrets, and clusters.
Agent Behind HTTPS Proxy
All Akuity Agent components are now able to work behind an HTTPS proxy. Note: Redis Tunneling needs to be enabled in Cluster settings to ensure Redis access from the agent.
2023-05-12
Config Management Plugins
Configuring Argo CD Config Management plugins is now possible using the Akuity Platform user interface.
Declarative Management
The Akuity Platform now supports declarative management of Argo CD instances using akuity argocd <apply|diff> commands
. Check out the docs to learn more.
Synchronization History Reports
The Akuity Platform now provides powerful application synchronization history reports. The feature is available in the Akuity Platform dashboard as well as via an extension in the Argo CD user interface.
Agent State Replication
The Agent State Replication feature on the Akuity Platform allows you to disconnect a managed cluster from the platform without losing core Argo CD features.
Agent Token Rotation
The Akuity Platform dashboard provides a way to rotate the Akuity Agent token with one button click.
Flexible Argo CD Architecture
Akuity Platform allows you dynamically choose host cluster for Argo CD components. The following components' location is configurable: Application Set, Repo Server or Image Updater.
Argo CD Instance Security
The Akuity Platform provides information about CVEs detected in Argo CD releases and suggests upgrading to non-vulnerable versions.
2023-03-22
Deep Links Settings Management
The Akuity Platform dashboard allows configuring Argo CD Deep Links.
General Argo CD Settings Improvements
The dashboard for managing Argo CD secrets is greatly improved and allows users to provide secret values without making unnecessary clicks. Generate Argo CD Settings wizard allows enabling and disabling RBAC that controls logs access in managed clusters.
2023-02-28
Declarative Argo CD Instance Management
Akuity CLI supports akuity argocd apply
command, which allows declaratively managing Argo CD instances.
The command accepts a YAML file with the Argo CD instance settings and applies it to the Akuity Platform.
2023-02-21
Agent Version Management
The Akuity platform dashboard now allows installing a specific version of the Akuity Cluster Agent on the cluster.
Cluster Filters & Pagination
Cluster management UI has been improved to allow filtering and pagination, which in turn makes managing a very large number of clusters more friendly.
Agent Manifest Kustomization
The Akuity platform now allows for customizing the Akuity Cluster Agent manifests using Kustomize.
ApplicationSet Webhook
The GitHub webhook requests are now forwarded to the Argo CD Server and ApplicationSet components.
UI Polishing
The overall user interface is now more polished and consistent.