Release 1.4 (2020-08-24) 🔗︎
While Backyards is first and foremost a production ready Istio distribution, the latest release is a shift towards an observability tool and dashboard for SREs and operation teams. Backyards 1.4 brings the following significant new features:
- Design and track service level objectives, monitor error budget consumption and service compliance. For details, see Tracking Service Level Objectives (SLOs).
- Configure alerts based on burn rates and SLOs.
- Upgrade the Istio control plane like a canary upgrade.
- Support for Istio version 1.7.
- Better validation of the service mesh state.
- You can access the pod logs from the drill-down view.
For a more detailed overview of the new features, see the Backyards 1.4 announcement blog post.
Release 1.3 (2020-05-25) 🔗︎
- Lightweight API gateway management purely based on Istio resources.
- A new UI dashboard for managing and displaying gateway port and host configurations.
- Configuration of [routing and traffic management rules]{/docs/backyards/traffic-management/ingress/routes-traffic-management/} like timeouts, retries, or fault injection for upstream services.
- Configuration of TLS settings on the gateway through Automated Certificate Management Environments (ACME), like Let’s Encrypt.
- Automatic banzaicloud.io domain names for Istio gateways.
- Out-of-the box monitoring for Istio gateways.
- The Backyards operator: a declarative installation and configuration method for Backyards components.
- Support for Istio version 1.6.
- Stability and performance fixes.
For a more detailed overview of the new features, see the Backyards 1.4 announcement blog post.
