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  • Jun 2024

    • changed

      STACKIT Load Balancer available in SKE

      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.

  • Dec 2023

    • announcement

      Essential Network Load Balancer is available as GA

      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

      Section titled “How to Get Started”

      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.

  • Sep 2022

    • feature

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

      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

      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.

  • Oct 2021

    • feature

      High availability for SKE YAWOL Load Balancers

      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.