1. Cortex, a scalable long-term storage for Prometheus (a CNCF Incubating project), got its v1.18.0 with lots of updates. They include an experimental native histogram ingestion, support for filtering alerts (ListRules API), new query rejection mechanism, a token bucket limiter, and ingester metadata API limits.
2. Argo Workflows, a workflow engine for orchestrating parallel jobs on Kubernetes, has seen its v3.6.0-rc1 with hundreds(!) of changes. Some of its new features are using Prometheus TLS by default, configurable individual metrics, OpenTelemetry metrics and numerous new other metrics (Pod pending counter, Pod phase counter, leader metric, etc.), multiple schedules in
CronWorkflow, SQLite-based memory store for live workflows, dynamic templateRef naming, support for ephemeral credentials for S3, and many UI improvements.3. Kanister, a framework for application-level data management on K8s (a CNCF Sandbox project), released v0.111.0 with support for read-only and write access modes when
kando connects to Kopia repository server, cache size limits for Kopia server, an ability to pass labels and annotations when creating/cloning volume snapshot resources, and customisation of the labels and annotations of the temporary Pods created by Kanister.4. Kata Containers 3.9.0 introduced support for pulling cosign-signed images, refined device management for kata-agent, image annotations for remote hypervisors,
SetPolicy support in agent-ctl, and more.5. Devtron, a tool integration platform for Kubernetes, was updated to v0.7.2. This release brought support for creating plugins at pipeline stage level, TLS support for Git and GitOps, GitOps support for OCI repositories, GitLab webhook support, async Argo CD app refresh operation, and other features.
6. PipeCD, a GitOps-style continuous delivery platform for apps across different environments (a CNCF Sandbox project), got its v0.49.0 featuring significantly improved AWS Lambda support (plan preview, drift detection, etc.), ECS enhancements (drift detection, LiveState UI), OIDC support for the SSO, and sending OpenTelemetry traces to control plane.
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