Details about Roost Desktop Release versions; glimpse into the upcoming release and previous versions

Latest Release 1.9.66

Released On Feb 23, 2022

Roost Website

• Manage EKS cost and define team usage from Client Admin page

• Access K8s dashboard from Roost website

• Limit maximum number of worker nodes and namespaces for auto-scaling

• Retrieve Roost Cluster connection info for team

• Request namespace from control-plane

Cluster Management View

• Spin Roost cluster on GCP for any Ubuntu AMI

• Horizontal auto-scaling for Remote Roost cluster

• Create cluster using AWS spot instances (specify price limit)

• Delete Docker images from GCR, ECR using the Roost Container/Registry View

Roost Desktop Environment

• Schedule EKS node scale-down and scale-up

• Workload Analytics - Visualise Ingress and Service End-point

• Support for self-signed certificate based “Roost Enterprise Control Plane”

Upcoming Release 1.9.67

Tentative Release planned for March 10, 2022

• Set up Hierarchical Namespaces (allows nested namespace creation)

• EKS Dashboard to show node scaling events and user schedules

• Okta integration for 3rd party auth

• Roost as a Release Environment (auto-setup based on Git events)

• Cluster Inactivity detection (potential trigger for namespace sleep and node scale down)

History

Release v1.9.65

Cluster Management View

• Build heterogenous cluster with different AMI, instance type and disk size

• Spawn Roost Cluster on Azure, in addition to AWS and GCP

• Allow Spot instances and AWS STS/Temporary token for Roost cluster

• Auto-run Application Install/Uninstall script on Remote Roost with custom env variables

Manage Team Cluster

• Auto-configuration of Namespace RBAC on Team Cluster

• Team Cluster Dashboard with Team Member activity

Roost Desktop Environment

• Support Microsoft Authentication as 3rd party auth

• Resource Update View to reflect real-time docker/registry image changes  

• Show Docker DiskPressure and Prune option

Release v1.9.64

• Microservice Fitness UI

• Namespace Sleep/Wake

• Team Cluster Activity View

• Auto-discovery of micro-service and dependencies

Release v1.9.63

Cluster Management View

• Manage Cluster configuration including mapping to Docker Host and Registry via single view

• Start, stop and connect to multiple clusters or enable/disable multiple 3rd party plugins

• Restart Remote Cluster without losing k8s deployments or docker images

Registry Container View

• View, pull, push, scan images for any Docker Host, registry

• Connect to AWS ECR and configure automated image push to registry on build

Release v1.9.62

Support for K8s version extended till 1.22.2

Flexibility to spawn local VM and K8s cluster

• View/edit Config Map and Secrets

  Choose auto/manual update of dependent k8s workloads

• Switch between clusters in real-time to view workloads and events.

Roost Container Registry (RCR view)

• Switch between multiple docker daemons and docker registry.

• View the docker images and containers for any cluster.

• Connect and view DockerHub and GCR.io besides insecure registry

• Show/Skip K8s containers from view

• Additional Search and filter for stopped, running containers

Cluster Management View

• Spawn multiple AWS/GCP homogenous or heterogenous clusters;

  Set auto-expiry duration for the cluster;

  Choose AMI, Disk size for the K8s instances;

  Associate docker daemon and registry with a cluster

  Build docker images directly with auto-push to registry

  View team cluster details

• Connect to organisation clusters that are accessible via a Jumphost/bastion only

Remote Clusters on AWS and GCP

• Choose Ubuntu 18.4, 20.4 AMI or Deep Learning AMI

  Auto-disk size increment for Deep Learning AMI

  Pre-provisioned insecure docker registry on the EC2 or GCP Compute Instance

  Scale up/down clusters with a single click

  Integrated K8s events notification in Roost Events Viewer

Certification with Collaboration

• Certify or Mark failed cloud artefacts anytime (on build or after collaboration)

  Certify with GitOps; Makes it easy to stage changes to another environment

  View certified artefacts along with details from service fitness and GitOps