Product updates

New features and enhancements in DuploCloud

Q1 2024

• AWS

  • Enable automatic AWS ACM (SSL) Certificates for a Plan.

  • Configure K8s Ingress redirect using a container port name.

  • Disable faults for Target Groups without instances.

  • Enable UltraWarm Data nodes for OpenSearch domains.

  • Support for upgrading EKS components (add-ons).

  • Add a Web App Firewall URL when creating or updating a Plan.

  • Update or skip a final RDS snapshot.

  • Upgrade the EKS Cluster.

  • Create an OpenSearch domain.

  • Billing option is available per Tenant.

  • Scale to or from zero (0) using Auto-Scaling Groups.

  • Create Lambdas with Ephemeral Storage.

  • Support for Lambda Dead Letter Queues.

  • Set a delivery delay for SQS Queues, using increments of seconds.

  • Configure Vanta compliance controls for DuploCloud Tenants.

  • Support for OpenSearch storage options.

  • Security Configurations Settings documentation section added.

• GCP

  • GKE Standard mode is supported when creating DuploCloud Infrastructures.

  • Support for Firestore databases.

  • Support for GCP Hosts and GCE VMs.

  • Create Node Pools with support for accelerators and taints.

  • Support for GKE Ingress.

• CI/CD

  • Update a service with a stream-lined, read-to-use GitHub Actions script.

• Kubernetes

  • Enable real-time alerts for autoscaling Kubernetes nodes.

• General

  • Customize the DuploCloud login screen banner.

  • Set Tenants to expire at specified dates and times.

  • Configure settings for all new Tenants under a Plan using Tenant Config tab.

  • SIEM - Configure agents to install on specific Tenants.

Q4 2023

• AWS

  • Enable Spot Instances for EKS Autoscaling Groups (ASG).

  • Implement Kubernetes Lifecycle Hooks while Adding a DuploCloud EKS/Native Service.

  • Enable shared hosts to allow K8s Pods in a Tenant to run on Hosts in another Tenant.

  • Set a default automated backup retention period for databases.

  • Enable bucket versioning when creating an S3 bucket.

  • Create an Amazon Machine Image (AMI).

  • Use dedicated hosts to launch Amazon EC2 instances and provide additional visibility and control over how instances are placed on a physical server.

  • Automatically reboot a host upon StatusCheck faults or Host disconnection.

  • Support for SNS Topic Alerts, enabling notifications and alerts across different AWS services and external endpoints.

  • Establish VPN connections for private endpoints when creating an Infrastructure.

  • Restore an RDS to a particular point in time.

  • Dynamically change the configuration of a Kafka Cluster.

  • Fields for Sort Key and Key Type are now available when creating a DynamoDB.

• Azure

  • Create a MySQL Flexible Server managed database service.

  • Add an Azure Service Bus.

• Kubernetes

  • Follow logs for K8s containers in real-time.

  • Influence Pod scheduling by specifying K8s YAML for Pod Toleration.

  • Create Kubernetes Jobs (K8s Jobs) in AWS and GCP to manage short-lived, batch workloads in a Kubernetes cluster.

  • Create Kubernetes CronJobs (K8s CronJobs) in AWS and GCP to schedule long-term K8s Jobs to run at preset intervals.

• General updates

  • The DuploCloud UI contains numerous design, navigational, and usability improvements, including new menus for managing an RDS, Containers, and Hosts. These improvements are cross-platform and apply to AWS, Azure, and GCP.

  • Quickly search the DuploCloud Portal for any navigation menus or tab labels, such as Kubernetes Secrets and Spend by Month, by using the Search box at the top center of the DuploCloud Portal.

  

  The Search box in the DuploCloud Portal

  • Use the Supported Third-Party Tools page for a list of functionality supported by DuploCloud, out-of-the-box.

  • DuploCloud no longer supports launch configurations. Instead, launch templates are created. If you use launch configurations, DuploCloud automatically converts them to launch templates with no interruption in uptime.

August 2023 and September 2023

• AWS

  • Hibernate an EC2 host instance.

  • Display Taints in ECS hosts on unreachable Nodes.

June 2023 and July 2023

• AWS

  • Manage Tenant expiration and Tenant session durations.

  • Set a monitoring interval for an RDS database.

  • Enable or disable logging for an RDS database.

  • Add custom Lambda image configurations and URLs.

  • Enable Object Lock in S3 Buckets to prevent objects from being deleted or overwritten.

  • Configure a custom S3 Bucket for auditing.

  • Update Lifecycle Policies for EFS storage.

  • Customize a Node Selector for EKS Services to prevent overrides of specific configurations.

  • Access ECS container task shells directly from the DuploCloud Portal.

  • Ability to designate Essential Containers in Task definitions for ECS Services.

  • Automate fault healing on EC2 Hosts that fail a status check.

  • Enhanced support for Startup Probes.

• GCP

  • Support for Redis database instances.

  • Support for SQL databases.

  • Change Cloud Armour Security Policies.

• General updates

  • Last Login card available for determining the last user sign-in when viewing user access.

  • Grant access to specific databases to non-administrators.

May 2023

• AWS

  • Enable EKS endpoints in a DuploCloud Infrastructure, in a more cost-effective and secure manner. Enabling endpoints in DuploCloud allows your network communication to remain internal to the network, without using NAT gateways.

  • Multiple containers are now supported in the ECS Task Definitions tab.

  • Start, stop, and restart up to twenty (20) services at one time.

  • Add VPC Endpoints to a DuploCloud Infrastructure to create a private connection to supported AWS services and VPC endpoint services powered by AWS PrivateLink.

  • Enable logging for ECS containers.

  • Define S3 bucket policies.

  • Support for Lambda Layers has been added.

  • CloudWatch EventBridge rules and targets are supported.

  • The CloudFront feature and associated UI tab have been relocated in the DuploCloud Portal from the Cloud Services -> App Integration menu item to the Cloud Services -> Networking menu item.

• Azure

  • Support for Redis databases is available.

• GCP

  • Cloud Armour is supported, to monitor your cloud infrastructures and deployed applications against cyber-attacks.

April 2023

• AWS

  • Define custom CIDRs for NLB Load Balancers.

  • Manage multiple Load Balancer settings using the Load Balancer tab's Other Settings card. Settings include specifying a Web Application Firewall (WAF) Access Control List (ACL), enabling HTTP to HTTPS redirects, enabling Access Logs, setting an Idle Timeout, and an option to drop invalid headers.

  • Specify custom public and private EKS endpoints for your DuploCloud Infrastructure during or after creating an Infrastructure.

  • Gain Cross-Tenant access to restricted policy-based resources.

  • JIT Access to the AWS Console is redesigned with several usability enhancements.

  • Enable Control Plane logging for EKS clusters.

  • Enable Read-only processing for ECS services.

  • Support for Aurora RDS Serverless and MySQL read replicas and ability to modify Serverless replica instance size.

  • Improved documentation for upgrading an EKS cluster version.

• Azure

  • Add a direct link to the Azure Console from a DuploCloud Host page Actions Menu.

• General Updates

  • Set read-only access to specific Tenants for DuploCloud users.

March 2023

• AWS

  • Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) peering is supported to facilitate data transfer between VPCs.

  • EMR Serverless is supported to run open-source big data analytics frameworks without configuring, managing, and scaling clusters or servers.

  • DuploCloud users can obtain Just-In-Time (JIT) access to the AWS Console.

  • AWS SQS Standard and FIFO queues are now supported.

  • Use the DuploCloud Portal to work with AWS Internet of Things (IoT).

  • Support for Redis database versions when creating Elastic Cache (Ecache).

  • Enable shell access for ECS, Kubernetes, and Native docker containers using a simplified workflow.

  • Reduce storage cost and increase performance by setting GP3 as your default storage class.

  • Enable NAT Gateways for High Availability (HA).

  • Restart up to twenty DuploCloud Services at once.

• GCP

  • Updated documentation for supported databases.

• CI/CD

  • Documentation for Bitbucket Pipelines is available, which allows developers to automatically build, test, and deploy their code every time they push changes to an Atlassian Bitbucket repository.

• Terraform

  • Added IdleTimeout to duplocloud_aws_load_balancer resource.

February 2023

• AWS

  • Enable Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) for your existing infrastructure. EKS versions 1.22 and 1.23 are supported.

  • Timestream databases are now supported.

• General updates

  • Delete VPN connections for users.

December 2022 and January 2023

• AWS

  • AWS ElastiCache, a managed caching service for Redis and Memcached, is now supported.

  • Monitor Tenant usage in Cost Management for billing with weekly or monthly views. After clicking the Spend by Tenant tab, you can also select the shared card to display tax and support costs.

  • Maintain cluster stability with Ingress Health Checks annotations.

  • Use the K8s Admin dashboard to monitor StatefulSets.

  • Force creation of StatefulSets.

• Azure

  • Support for Kubernetes Ingress.

  • Monitor Tenant usage in the Cost Management for billing feature with weekly or monthly views.

  • Edit Azure agent pools, used to run Azure Kubernetes (AKS) workloads.

• GCP

  • Monitor Tenant usage in the Cost Management for billing feature with weekly or monthly views.

• Kubernetes (K8s)

  • Support for Kubernetes Ingress in Azure.

  • Maintain cluster stability with Ingress Health Checks annotations for AWS.

  • Force creation of StatefulSets in AWS.

  • Use the K8s Admin dashboard to monitor StatefulSets in AWS.

  • Edit Azure agent pools, used to run Azure Kubernetes (AKS) workloads.

November 2022

• Ability to add Path-Based Routing rules: Configure path-based routing rules for application load balancers.

• Support for Aurora Serverless V2: User can create and manage Aurora Serverless V2 RDS.

• Billing License Usage: Overview of DuploCloud License Usage according to current service usage.

October 2022

• Ability to add Logging Infra at Tenant Level: Support to configure logging setup other than default tenant.

• Support multiple docker registry credentials in a single tenant: The user can configure multiple docker registry credentials from the plan.

September 2022

• Support for Amazon Managed Apache Airflow: Ability to configure AWS Managed Airflow

• Configure custom prefix for S3: Ability to configure a prefix for S3 bucket names.

• Azure Support to add Storage account: Create Storage Accounts, File Shares, and generate Shared Access Signature (SAS).

• Multiple Azure User Enhancements were made.

August 2022

• Support for Elastic File System (EFS): Support for adding EFS has been added to DuploCloud. You can create and mount a shared filesystem for an Infrastructure in the DuploCloud Portal.

• Support for adding Kubernetes Storage Class: Support for Kubernetes Storage Class and Persistent Volumes is now available.

• Support for Kubernetes Secret Provider Class: This provides the ability to integrate AWS parameters and secrets to be available as Kubernetes secrets.

• Ability to add Lambda using Container Images: Users can now configure an AWS Lambda using Container images.

• Support to configure RDS Automatic Backup Retention: Administrators can configure RDS Automatic Backup Retention in days at the system level

• Export Terraform from an existing Tenant: Ability to export DuploCloud terraform provider code for an existing DuploCloud Tenant

July 2022

• Ability to Automatically generate Alert: Users can now configure automated alarm creation in AWS, to make sure any new resource added to their environment is not missed from monitoring.

• Ability to set resource allocation quotas by an Admin: Administrators would often like to restrict the type of resources that should or should not be provisioned in their environments. This feature allows them a way to configure those rules via a DuploCloud Plan.

• Support for Kubernetes Ingress Controller: Support for the K8s Ingress controller has been added, this is a key piece of functionality for traffic routing to a K8s cluster.

• RDS Snapshot Management: Support to manage RDS database snapshot was added to the Portal, accessible through the RDS page.

• Terraform Provider updates: Expanded support for more resources in the DuploCloud terraform provider, specifically for Microsoft Azure.