What’s new in Keptn — July 2022
Ahoy Keptn Community! Today we try to repost our regular community news on Medium as a new distribution channel. This newsletter was prepared by Giulia Di Pietro, thanks a lot to her. Enjoy reading and let us know in the comments whether such blogposts are useful for you and you want to see more!
Here’s what you can expect in this edition: we’ve released Keptn 0.16.0, some new integrations, and announced our newest Keptn Community Rockstar for Q2 22! Finally, watch and listen to some recent talks we’ve had around Keptn.
Latest Keptn release
Keptn 0.16.0 is out and provides the ability to upgrade your Keptn installation without any downtime. For this, Keptn requires each project to have an upstream Git repository. Make sure to check the upgrade instructions before you install it. Please see some of the key features below.
Zero downtime upgrades: Operators can upgrade Keptn without downtime.
Performance gains in backend and frontend: Performance implications when working with resource files have been resolved due to a new backend service. In addition, the Keptn Bridge received performance improvements by an adapted polling behavior.
(experimental) New heatmap for SLI breakdown: Keptn Bridge is leveraging a new rendering library that offers more flexibility for displaying the SLI breakdown. If you want to try it out, you can enable it by setting the Helm value control-plane.bridge.d3heatmap.enabled to true.
Please note: From Keptn 0.17, the CLI will remove the install/uninstall/upgrade commands. Please refer to our documentation to see how you can use helm to operate Keptn.
Wrike integration
We’ve released a new integration for Wrike on ArtifactHub. Wrike is a digital work management tool that lets users track and coordinate projects, combining a simple user experience and interface with enough depth for power users. Keptn integrates through it using the Webhook integration service.
Try it out here.
Meet our Q2 2022 Keptn Rockstar!
We are happy to announce that Suraj Banakar is our Keptn Community Rockstar for Q2 2022!
Suraj has been an active contributor to the project and created Datadog and Logic Sumo SLI providers. He mentors two projects in GSoC (Entity Custom Resource Definitions for Keptn GitOps and the new docs engine) and has also created guides for newcomer contributors.
Rob Jahn has created a short video for our “Meet the crew” series to learn a bit more about Suraj. Watch it here:
Keptn Quick Start on Killercoda
Now you can try out Keptn quick start on Killercoda! No installation needed, you can click a button and get a running preconfigured Keptn instance for evaluation and study.
Check it out here: https://killercoda.com/keptn
CDEvents & Keptn Deep Dive
Join Andi Grabner, Brad McCoy, Steve Taylor, and Saim Safder on an exploration of CDEvents and the Keptn event-based CD orchestration engine on the Beaming Ortelius Podcast.
In this session, the Ortelius community explores the use of CDEvents and Keptn with an eye toward the next generation of Continuous Delivery management. Listen to podcast episode.
What is Chaos Engineering?
Keptn community maintainer Jürgen Etzlstorfer (Microsoft) shows at TechTalks how you can combine Chaos Engineering and Keptn. Watch the full presentation here.
Keptn Community Meetings
As always, we invite every community member to join us for the community meetings! We’re on Bevy, and you can subscribe for all community meetings here.
- Community Meeting — every Thursday at 10am CET/ 9am UTC
- Americas/EMEA Meeting — every other Thursday at 5 pm CET/ 4pm UTC
- APAC/EMEA Meeting — every other Wednesday at 10am CET/ 9am UTC
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