Akuity Platform Changelog
Information on the latest updates and additions to the Akuity Platform.
2024-12-05
KubeVision CVE Scanning
The KubeVision feature now supports scanning container images in your Kubernetes clusters for Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs).
Kubevision Tree View
KubeVision Explorer now supports visualization of Kubernetes resources in a tree view.
2024-11-18
Timeline View
The Timeline feature is a new addition to KubeVision. It enables developers to view workload-related events directly in the KubeVision dashboard and the Argo CD UI, enhancing visibility and integration.
KubeVision Enhancements
A new “Stuck-In-Deletion” dashboard has been introduced in KubeVision. This dashboard provides a comprehensive view of resources stuck in the deletion process across the organization’s clusters, helping teams identify and resolve issues more efficiently.
Additionally the KubeVision Argo CD extension now support dark theme.
2024-10-20
Pods Views In KubeVision Infrastructure Dashboard
KubeVision Infrastructure Dashboard now provides a visualizatoin of the pods running on the Kubernetes cluster nodes.
Webhooks Instance Filters
The Webhook configuration now supports instance filters that allow you to specify different webhook configurations for different Argo CD instances.
User Interface For Selective Cluster Upgrades
The Akuity Platform now provides a user interface for selecting specific clusters for upgrade.
Argo CD Azure Webhooks Settings Wizard
The Akuity Platform now provides a wizard for configuring Azure Webhooks secrets for Argo CD instances.
2024-10-01
View Usage of Deprecated Kuberetes APIs
KubeVision functionality now provides a dashboard that shows deprecated Kubernetes APIs in use across the organization's clusters.
Kubernetes Events And Audit Log Tabs In KubeVision
KubeVision dashboards have been enhanced with the Kubernetes Events and Audit Log tabs that provide detailed information about the events and audit logs in the organization's clusters.
Navigation History In KubeVision Resource Explorer
KubeVision resource explorer now provides the navigation history component that allows users to navigate back and forth between previously visited resources.
2024-09-17
KubeVision Infrastructure Dashboard
KubeVision now includes an Infrastructure Dashboard that provides a comprehensive view of the Kubernetes cluster nodes and their resource utilization.
KubeVision AI Assistant
AI Assistant functionality is now available in KubeVision dashboards.
DORA Metrics
The DORA metrics are a set of key performance indicators that help organizations measure the effectiveness of their software delivery process. DORA metrics are now available in the Akuity Platform for Kargo users.
Image Updater Versioning
Akuity Platform now supports selecting version of the Argo CD Image Updater component.
Declarative Management Of KubeVision Settings
Akuity Platform declarative management now supports KubeVision settings.
2024-09-04
KubeVision
KubeVision is a new feature that enhances the visibility capabilities of the Akuity Platform. It offers a collection of use-case-specific dashboards that empower platform administrators and engineers to monitor and troubleshoot Kubernetes clusters across the entire organization.
Cluster Agent Auto-scaling
The Akuity Platform now allows you to enable cluster agent auto-scaling for your managed clusters. The feature automatically scales the cluster agent requests based on the size of the managed cluster.
Audit and Usage Webhooks
An ability to forward audit and usage events to external systems using webhooks.
2024-08-06
Notifications
The ability to get notified about important cloud-hosted instances events and new Akuity Platform features.
Custom Domain Name For Kargo
The Akuity Platform now supports custom domain names for Kargo instances.
2024-07-08
Custom Domain Name For Argo CD
The Akuity Platform now supports custom domain names for Argo CD instances.
Akuity Portal UI Enhancements
Various user interface enhancements including improved organization members invite form, new audit log filters and more.
2024-06-20
Workspaces And Teams
The feature that provides a way to group resources and users within an organization.
2024-05-24
Akuity Portal Enhancements
The Akuity Portal UI has been enhanced with a new look and feel, improved navigation, and better user experience.
Crossplane Extension
An Argo CD extension for Crossplane custom Kubernetes resources is now available on the Akuity Platform.
2024-04-26
Kargo Early Access
Akuity Platform now supports provisioning and managing Kargo instances.
Audit Log Aggregation and Log Archives
The Akuity Platform now groups repeated events and allows archiving audit logs to store them indefinitely.
Cluster Customizations
Cluster customization user interface has been improved and now allows customizing all images used by the Akuity Agent.
2024-03-26
Akuity Agent As An EKS Addon
An ability to install Akuity Agent as an EKS Addon.
Ability To Change Agent Installation Namespace And Permissions
Akuity Platform now allows changing Akuity Agent installation namespace and cluster permissions.
Datadog Integration for Akuity Agent
An ability to enable Datadog metrics collection of Application Controller and Repo Server components of the Akuity Agent.
2024-02-26
API Key Custom Roles
An ability to create custom roles for API keys.
Argo CD CDK8S Config Management Plugin
One click configuration of the Argo CD CDK8S Config Management Plugin is now available on 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.
2023-02-07
Argo CD v2.6
🎉 Argo CD v2.6 is generally available! 🎉
OpenShift 4 Support
Support for Red Hat OpenShift 4
2023-01-19
Audit Extension
The audit extension allows users to see the Argo CD related audit log in Argo CD user interface.
2023-01-09
Image Updater Support
The Argo CD Image Updater is now supported out-of-the box. The new component can be enabled using the Argo CD Instance settings page.
Notifications Wizard Enhancement
Notifications Wizard now provides web forms for configuring Argo CD Notifications triggers and templates.
Git Delegate
Akuity Platform now allows you to specify a "delegate" git cluster agent. This feature allows specifying a single cluster agent to use as the sole agent to access the git server. This is useful for environments where the git server can only be accessed from a single location.
2022-11-22
Renaming Organizations
Organization names can now be changed.
IP Allowlist for Cluster Agents
The IP allowlist can now be optionally applied to cluster agents attempting to connect to the control plane.
Schema Validation for Dex Configuration
Dex configuration is now validated for errors before persisting.
Migrating to Quay.io for Redis Images
The Redis image installed in cluster agents will now pull from Quay.io (previously Docker Hub) to avoid rate limiting.
2022-11-15
Argo CD Custom Style Wizard
This new wizard allows users to customize Argo CD styling, including the logo image and color palette.
Displaying and Exporting Audit Details
Organization audit functionality now provides detailed information about events. In addition, the audit log can be exported as a CSV file.
Improved Management of Organization's Members
The organization member management functionality has been improved and no longer requires using an invitation code. Once invited, the user just needs to click the 'Accept' button in the Akuity Dashboard to join the new organization.
2022-11-04
Argo CD v2.5
🎉 Argo CD v2.5 is generally available 🎉
2022-10-14
Getting Started Wizard
A Getting Started Wizard is available to walk new users through the process of creating and using their first Argo CD instance.
Organization Audit Filtering
The Organization Audit page now supports filtering based on a range of time, the object type, the actor, and the action. Its overall look and feel has been improved.
Multi-Line Secrets
Argo CD Instance Notifications and SSO Wizards now support multi-line secrets.
Conflicting Agent Installation Detection
The Clusters dashboard for an Argo CD instance will now display a warning if the Akuity Agent for one of the clusters has been installed in additional clusters.
2022-10-04
Customizable Agent Manifests
You can now override the Akuity Agent target namespace and configure custom image registries. The customizations can be configured per cluster or globally at the Argo CD instance level.
Disable Agent Auto-Upgrades
Now you can disable Akuity Agent auto-upgrading after changing the installed Argo CD version and apply new manifests manually instead.
Argo CD Settings UI Improvements
The Argo CD settings section now reminds you to save the changes you've made if you haven't done so already.
2022-09-14
General Availability
🎉 Akuity Platform is generally available! 🎉
2022-07-22
Early Access
Akuity Platform is available in early access with select design partners.