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v1.4.1 -- Context Propagation, kubectl support and UX Upgrade

5 months ago by Siddarth Jain

This recent release cycle (v1.3.13 and v1.4.1) have some significant upgrades to the platform:

  1. Context propagation: Capability to auto-extract relevant keywords from an alert and inject them as variables in any command / playbook task.
  2. kubectl commands: Run kubectl commands on your kubernetes containers in AWS / GCP or your self-managed k8s from PlayBooks now.
  3. Google Cloud Monitoring integration: Fetch metrics and logs from Google Cloud monitoring from within playbook task.
  4. Remote Server Authentication: Support for different remote server key types and authentication via PEM, PEM+Passphrase, username+password

New Features:

  • Context propagation: Capability to auto-extract relevant keywords from an alert and inject them as variables in any command / playbook task.
  • Heterogeneous tasks: Now add different tasks within a single step. This will be a significant upgrade while creating conditions as output of different tools can now be combined and used while evaluating conditions.

Integrations added:

  • Logs from Google Cloud
  • Metrics from Google Cloud
  • kubectl commands (self-serve, GKE, EKS)
  • Support for different key types and authentication via PEM, PEM+Passphrase, username+password

Conditions added:

  • Grep conditions

Upgrades to UI

  • Making Notes readable over hover
  • A WYSIWYG editor
  • Update to timerange selector
  • Timeline cards now include notes and external links.
  • Added search functionalities and advanced search text features in the UI.

Deployment practices

  • Image versioning and build timestamp environment variables in Docker context.
  • Added github workflows for automatic deployment on Coruscant and Sandbox environments.

Fixed

  • General bug fixes in pattern matching and edge index issues.
  • Resolved issues in workflow and logs UI for better clarity on task execution logs.
  • Typo fixes and minor text corrections across various modules.
  • Environment variable missing issue resolved.
  • Fixed search-engine ordering and enabled proper filtering.
  • Resolved issues related to settings pop-up message.

Removed

  • Removed old log assets from asset management.
  • Removed validations from test connection feature for optimization.