Release notes

• Jan. 2026

  • announcement

    STACKIT Application Load Balancer API reaches general availability

    26. Jan. 2026

    We’re excited to announce that the Application Load Balancer (ALB) API is generally available as of 7 January 2026. The API is stable, fully supported, and ready for production workloads.

    Teams can integrate the ALB API into automation, CI/CD pipelines, and traffic management workflows with confidence in long-term support and compatibility.

    Roadmap

    We are working on expanding the ecosystem to support even more and better tooling:

    • Terraform provider: In the final stages of development. Native infrastructure as code support will be available soon.
    • Portal UI: A visual management dashboard is scheduled for release in March.
    • Web Application Firewall: Additional security capabilities to protect your applications from common web threats are under active development.

    Get started!

    Our updated documentation covers everything you need to start making calls:

    • ALB API reference
    • ALB Certificates API reference
    • ALB getting started guides

• Juni 2024

  • changed

    STACKIT Load Balancer available in SKE

    3. Juni 2024

    We are happy to announce that newly created SKE clusters will use the STACKIT Load Balancer.

    Previously, users could create and manage load balancers within SKE using a solution known as yawol. However, to better align with industry standards and best practices, we launch our dedicated STACKIT Load Balancer service.

    As of June 3, 2024, the transition to this dedicated service will begin. New SKE clusters created after this date will automatically provision STACKIT Load Balancer for every Kubernetes service of type LoadBalancer.

    For more information, see our documentation on Load Balancer in SKE.

• Dez. 2023

  • announcement

    Essential Network Load Balancer is available as GA

    5. Dez. 2023

    We are happy to announce the release of our brand new service Essential Network Load Balancer.

    This service is designed to provide high availability for your application by distributing incoming traffic across multiple servers.

    How to Get Started

    • API Documentation
    • Documentation overview

    The API of the Essential Network Load Balancer enables easy integration into applications and workflows. It also provides extensive integration into various tools such as Terraform.

    With our getting started guide at our customer documentation you get everything to start right now.

• Sept. 2022

  • feature

    Existing Public IP Address can now be used for load balancers in SKE

    12. Sept. 2022

    You can now use existing Public IP Addresses for load balancers in STACKIT Kubernetes Engine (SKE). This feature allows you to use a static Public IP Address that persists even if the service is deleted and recreated. This is beneficial if you want to rely on a service to have a static Public IP Address, for example if you can’t use dynamic DNS.

    For more information, see our documentation on using existing Public IP Address for load balancers.

• Aug. 2022

  • announcement

    VPN load balancer of your SKE clusters is getting removed

    24. Aug. 2022

    Today we removed the VPN load balancer and Public IP Address of your STACKIT Kubernetes Engine (SKE) clusters. This setup was previously chosen to establish a secure VPN connection between the control plane and the worker nodes of your cluster.

    With our latest update we are using a different approach which eliminates the need for this load balancer while maintaining all security aspects to the highest level.

    What this means for you: From this day onward, your bill for a STACKIT Kubernetes Engine cluster will be reduced by 14,08€ per month.

• Okt. 2021

  • feature

    High availability for SKE YAWOL Load Balancers

    16. Okt. 2021

    We added the ability to make the STACKIT Kubernetes Engine (SKE) YAWOL load balancers highly available (HA) through a Kubernetes service annotation. This feature improves the resiliency of the service in case of potential infrastructure outages. Additionally, future updates to our YAWOL load balancers will not trigger any downtime for Kubernetes services, which means fewer maintenance windows for the STACKIT Kubernetes Engine service overall.

    Read more about the configuration of YAWOL HA in the SKE Load Balancing documentation.