Release Spotlight: Percona Everest 1.2.0
Everest is a new Open Source project from Percona: its first public release occurred earlier this year. It is a Cloud Native platform that should deployed on Kubernetes (EKS and GKE are currently recommended) and implements DBaaS (Database as a Service) for PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and MySQL.
The most recent version of Everest, v1.2.0, was released on October 1st. It introduced RBAC (technical preview) to manage users' roles and permissions. Other changes include retention copies for PostgreSQL when setting up backup schedules, an improved Database overview page in UI, and new operators for PostgreSQL (2.4.1) and MySQL (1.15.0).
Other noticeable updates in the Cloud Native space:
1. Volcano, a Cloud Native Batch System (a CNCF Incubating project), released its v1.10.0 with numerous new features. It got support for the queue priority scheduling strategy, fine-grained GPU resource sharing and reclaim, Pod scheduling readiness support, sidecar container scheduling capabilities, new
vcctl commands, and performance optimisations for large-scale scenarios.2. pi-cluster project, providing an automated home-lab Kubernetes setup, has seen massive changes with v1.9.0. It migrated its GitOps solution from Argo CD to Flux CD, CNI from Flannel to Cilium, service mesh from Linkerd to Istio, and switched Keycloak SSO to an external PostgreSQL database (managed by CNPG operator).
3. Perses, an observability visualisation dashboard tool (a CNCF Sandbox project), was updated to 0.48.0 with a new Prometheus metric finder, based on the design from Prometheus 3.0. It also got a PieChart panel plugin and numerous enhancements for the Table, ScatterPlot and TracingGanttChart panels. Other features include auto-complete support in the TraceQL query editor and improvements in OAuth support.
4. Kubermatic Kubernetes Platform 2.26 was released. It added the ability to define default and enforced applications for user clusters, webhook backend support for api-server audit logs, customisable fields in Presets, support for custom annotations, Tinkerbell support for the bare-metal provider, Kubernetes v1.30 and v1.31 support, and more.
5. CloudNativePG 1.24.1 was released just yesterday with PostgreSQL 17.0 as its default image. It also introduced the ability to configure the
full_page_writes parameter in PostgreSQL, the logs pretty command in the cnpg plugin, and the ability to use custom Docker images in the pgadmin4 plugin.#news #releases