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Devtron’s Product Updates: October 2024

TL;DR: Devtron's October update delivers enhanced security and efficiency for Kubernetes deployments, including support for air-gapped environments, streamlined configuration drift management and advanced threat detection.

10 days ago   •   3 min read

By Bhushan Nemade
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Welcome to the October edition of product updates from Devtron! This month brings groundbreaking enhancements focused on security, configuration management, and enterprise-grade deployment capabilities. From Devtron’s Software Distribution Hub supporting air-gapped environments to advanced configuration drift management, we're taking deployment security and efficiency to new heights. Let's dive into what's new and improved this month!

What’s New

🚀 Seamless Software Distribution for Air-Gapped Environments

Say goodbye to deployment headaches over air-gapped systems! Devtron’s Software Distribution Hub (SDH) now supports seamless and secure software distribution to air-gapped environments, allowing you to deploy applications to isolated clusters. This means your clients in high-security settings can enjoy smooth and secure software releases while you maintain full visibility into rollout progress, error metrics, and telemetry data. It’s the perfect blend of security and efficiency!

🔍 Enhanced Filtering Capabilities for Release Tracks

Navigating through multiple release tracks just got a whole lot easier! With our new filtering capabilities for Release Tracks, you can efficiently manage and sift through various release tracks, ensuring that you stay organized and focused on what matters most—delivering top-notch applications to your users.

🎨 Streamlined App Configurations Management

No more juggling between multiple tabs! The Software Distribution Hub (SDH) now allows you to visualize, update, and compare configurations of selected applications directly at the release stage. This enhancement simplifies your workflow, making it easier than ever to manage app configurations across multiple environments—all in one place. Moreover, now you can also compare the configuration changes of applications across multiple environments at the release stage.

🔧 Configuration Drift Management Made Easy

Keep your deployments on track with Devtron’s new Configuration Drift Management feature! To effectively manage configuration drifts—situations where the desired configuration diverges from the deployed configuration. Devtron is bringing a feature that allows users to compare deployed configurations against the desired state. This enhancement aims to restrict manual changes made outside of Devtron and enables teams to take remedial actions if discrepancies are detected. By offering detailed diffs of configurations, users can quickly identify unauthorized modifications and ensure that their deployments remain consistent with the intended configurations, thereby enhancing operational integrity and control.

🔑 Support for Templates in External Secrets

Devtron has introduced support for the ESO templating engine, enabling users to perform data manipulation and formatting on their secrets. This powerful feature opens up possibilities for customizing how secrets are processed and utilized within your Devtron applications, allowing for more flexible and secure management of sensitive information.

What has Improved

🔔 Enhanced Vulnerability Scanning Notifications

With the latest update, users can now trigger notifications upon the completion of Continuous Integration (CI) processes when vulnerabilities of specific severity are detected. This enhancement allows for notifications based on environment ID or name, ensuring that you stay informed about critical security issues as they arise. This proactive approach helps teams address vulnerabilities promptly, enhancing overall security posture.

Bug Fixes

  • Resolved the build and deploy page timeout issues.
  • Corrected the "Desired image tag already exists" warning behavior.
  • Addressed build pod deletion issues after forced aborts.
  • Implemented timezone functionality for deployment windows.
  • Fixed cluster terminal node dropdown functionality.
  • Added report visibility for failed CI and CD artifacts.
  • Resolved force deletion issues in the Devtron CD pipeline and Helm apps.
  • Addressed Git sensor error causing exit code 128.
  • Fixed artifact availability for partial CI/CD task failures.
  • Corrected redirection behavior when closing the create Devtron app modal.
  • Resolved empty incoming payload expansion issue.
  • Fixed Dependabot issues across repositories and addressed minor fixes.
  • Corrected inaccurate data in the template/list API when deployed via SDH.
  • Resolved the resource browser page break when applying CEL filters.
  • Addressed various bugs in the resource tree functionality.
  • Updated the app details page to reflect the name of the user who triggered the deployment on the commit card.

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