Release 1.5 (2020-11-23) 🔗︎
The vision of Backyards is to become the go-to solution for SREs and operation engineers to observe and control the health of their services and applications. The service mesh acts as the foundation layer that produces the most important network traffic metrics and traces in a unified way. Release 1.4 was the first step towards this goal, and the 1.5 release keeps the same focus. Backyards 1.5 brings the following significant new features:
- Automatic application health monitoring
- Timeline view of service topology and metrics
- Full UI revamp for a faster and smoother experience
- Support for Istio version 1.8. For details on the changes in Istio 1.8, see the What’s new in Istio 1.8, a quick walkthrough blog post.
For a more detailed overview of the new features, see the Backyards 1.5 announcement blog post.
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.
