We would like to inform you that, as of December 31, 2025, the public preview of Dedicated Cloud Foundry on STACKIT Kubernetes Engine has ended.
We greatly appreciate all the feedback received and will take it into account for future development.
If you have any questions, our Help Center is always at your disposal.
We are introducing Flatcar OS versions with the new containerd 2.0 runtime in STACKIT Kubernetes Engine.
containerd 2.0 is a major milestone that improves performance and reduces technical debt. It removes support for some deprecated features, you can find detailed information here
To ensure a smooth transition, we have extended the support for OS versions with containerd 1.7.
There are currently two preview OS versions of flatcar available:
4459.2.1 (containerd 2.0)4230.2.4 (containerd 1.7)Key Dates:
4459.2.4 is available for all SKE users.4230.2.4 becomes the supported OS version.4459.2.x (containerd 2.0) becomes the supported OS version and Flatcar 4230.2.4 (containerd 1.7) will be deprecated. If you have auto updates enabled, your Kubernetes worker nodes will automatically update to this version4459.2.x becomes the supported version and all flatcar versions with containerd 1.7 will be removed. The regular SKE patchday cycle continues. You can find all information regarding version updates in SKE here.OS versions with containerd 1.7 will remain available until March 2026 for sufficient evaluation time.
What you need to do
Please test your SKE workload beforehand using Flatcar version 4459.2.x. Testing is highly recommended to ensure your container images and configurations are compatible with the new runtime.
If you encounter problems during the migration, please contact us directly via support.stackit.cloud.
We now support Kubernetes in the version 1.34.
For more feature and change details refer to the Kubernetes release page or official release notes.
The documentation how to manually apply minor or patch version updates can be found in the official STACKIT Kubernetes documentation. You can find additional information to our release process here.
Please be aware that SKE will align with the official End of Life for Kubernetes versions. Therefore, version 1.34 will be fully supported until the 27th of October 2026.
On the flip side, Kubernetes version 1.31 has reached the end of its official maintenance support. Therefore, this version will be removed from the STACKIT Kubernetes Engine (SKE). We will automatically update all clusters running with Kubernetes version 1.31 to 1.32 on 28th of January 2026.
Our Help Center is always at your disposal if you have any questions.
We would like to inform you that the Observability default Grafana admin user, created during instance provisioning, is now deprecated and will be removed on January 11, 2027, if the credentials have not been changed. From this date on, also the creation of a default admin user for new instances will no longer be supported.
For security reasons, we recommend removing this default user right now and using STACKIT SSO (or your own SSO provider) instead. More information about Grafana SSO can be found in the Configure Grafana Access documentation. To remove this default user, we have introduced a new attribute in the Observability API instance update endpoint and a new button in the Portal.
Additionally, you can already decide whether the default admin user should be created during provisioning. We have added a corresponding attribute in the Observability API instance creation endpoint as well as a new dialog in the Portal provisioning flow.
Please be aware that once the default admin user is removed or the creation of it is skipped, it cannot be recreated via the API or the Portal. However, it will still be possible to manually create basic auth users in the Grafana UI.
Another benefit of removing the default admin is that it frees up a user slot. This allows you to utilize the full user limit defined in your plan (e.g. all 5 slots of the smallest plan) for real users via SSO.
We’re excited to announce the release of GPT-OSS-120B, the most capable model in the GPT-OSS family to date, to our shared llm model portfolio. This model brings a major leap in reasoning, tool calling capabilities, and long-context reliability.
GPT-OSS-120b is designed to be used within agentic workflows with strong instruction following, and reasoning capabilities. The model provides full chain-of-thought (CoT) and support Structured Outputs.
Explore our full model portfolio, and access detailed examples and tutorials in our documentation. Our Help Center is always at your disposal if you have any questions.
We are happy to announce the Alpha release of the STACKIT Unified Firewall. This release empowers users to programmatically access and review their firewall rules through the API at project level.
This Alpha version focuses on providing visibility into your firewall resources via the API.
We are excited to announce that STACKIT Intake, our powerful, fully managed Data Stream Ingestion as a Service, is now available in Public Preview via the STACKIT Portal.
STACKIT Intake simplifies moving real-time data directly into the STACKIT Data Platform. It provides a reliable and scalable pipeline that connects your data producers directly to your analytical storage.
Core Features and Benefits
STACKIT Intake is ideal for teams building robust, real-time data lakehouse architectures for use cases like IoT telemetry, Change Data Capture (CDC), real-time analytics, and log/event aggregation.
Use STACKIT Intake Today
Start your journey with STACKIT Intake now right from the STACKIT Portal.
As with all our public previews, STACKIT Intake is currently free of charge during this phase, allowing you to test and explore its full functionality at no cost.
We are actively iterating based on your valuable feedback to ensure STACKIT Intake is a highly scalable and dependable solution for all your streaming data ingestion needs when it reaches General Availability status.
Our Help Center is always at your disposal if you have any questions.
We would like to inform you that it is now possible to gain full administrative access to Grafana through Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) via Single Sign-On (SSO). Previously, this was only possible via a basic auth admin user created during instance provisioning.
To use this new administrative access, you have two options:
STACKIT SSO (enabled by default): We introduced a new permission: argus.grafana.server-administrate. This permission is included in the Observability Grafana Server Admin and Owner roles.
Custom SSO: If you wish to configure Grafana Server admin privileges through your own SSO provider, we have introduced a new attribute, allowAssignGrafanaAdmin, to the Observability API grafana-config endpoint to handle this configuration. For detailed information on the API itself, see the Observability API documentation .
More information about the default Grafana admin, Grafana SSO and other access methods can be found in the Configure Grafana Access documentation.
We are delighted to announce the general availability of our new STACKIT Content Delivery Network (CDN) service.
This product significantly speeds up your content loading times while increasing global availability and security.
Key features:
For more information and detailed documentation, visit our documentation article.
Our Help Center is always at your disposal if you have any questions.
From 06.05.2025 we can offer you a new service STACKIT Content Delivery Network (CDN). This is now available as a beta version and offers you the possibility to deliver your content and data with low latency and high bandwidth.
STACKIT CDN Key features:
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us via Support ticket
We are happy to announce the implementation of our new feature Web Application Firewall (WAF) in STACKIT CDN and STACKIT Portal.
Increase your security by turning the WAF on and choose between two modes which fits best to your use case:
Logged messages are accessible via STACKIT CDN Logs.
For more information and detailed documentation, please visit our WAF documentation.
Our Help Center is always at your disposal if you have any questions.
We would like to inform you that our STACKIT Marketplace Catalog and Inquiry API v1 version has reached the end of life on May 11, 2026.
Our Help Center is always at your disposal if you have any questions.
Starting from December 1, 2025, STACKIT will introduce an updated billing structure for Windows Server, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), and Confidential Kubernetes.
Previously, these services were billed as a combined product (Compute + License). Going forward, compute resources and operating system or service licenses will be billed separately, providing greater transparency and traceability across all workloads.
This change applies to both new and existing instances of the mentioned products. The respective pricing and SKU details are reflected in the updated service certificates.
Further information can be found in the updated Service Certificates for
Our Help Center is always at your disposal if you have any questions.
We would like to inform you that the API of the STACKIT Kubernetes Engine (SKE) will now include the email address of the user when requesting a Kubeconfig. As before, the Kubeconfig continues to grant admin rights within the corresponding cluster.
Our Help Center is always at your disposal if you have any questions.
Starting from 01 December 2025, STACKIT will introduce an updated billing structure for Windows Server, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), and Confidential Kubernetes.
Previously, these services were billed as a combined product (Compute + License). Going forward, compute resources and operating system or service licenses will be billed separately, providing greater transparency and traceability across all workloads.
This change applies to both new and existing instances of the mentioned products. The respective pricing and SKU details are reflected in the updated service certificates.
Further information can be found in the updated Service Certificates for
Our Help Center is always at your disposal if you have any questions.
We would like to inform you that starting from January 1, 2026, STACKIT will stop providing Remote Desktop Services (RDS) Subscriber Access Licenses (SALs) as part of the Windows Server offering.
Going forward, RDS licensing will be handled exclusively through your own eligible Microsoft agreements (Bring Your Own License – BYOL). This change aligns with Microsoft’s Flexible Virtualization Benefit (FVB) and prevents duplicate or unnecessary license provisioning. Further details are available in the updated STACKIT Windows Server Service Certificate.
Our Help Center is always at your disposal if you have any questions.
Starting from December 1, 2025, STACKIT will introduce an updated billing structure for Windows Server, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), and Confidential Kubernetes. Previously, these services were billed as a combined product (Compute + License). Going forward, compute resources and operating system or service licenses will be billed separately, providing greater transparency and traceability across all workloads. This change applies to both new and existing instances of the mentioned products. The respective pricing and SKU details are reflected in the updated service certificates.
Further information can be found in the updated Service Certificates for
Our Help Center is always at your disposal if you have any questions.
We would like to inform you that the performance class upgrade functionality of MongoDB Flex will reach the end of life by November 1, 2026. This is due to technical limitations. Our storage team will work on making online performance class changes available until then. In this case the functionality will not be deprecated. We will keep you informed. Our Help Center is always at your disposal if you have any questions.
To ensure service stability and expand our capacity, we are extending our IP address range.
Newly Added IP Addresses / Subnet: 192.214.164.208/28
We kindly ask you to review and adjust your network and firewall rules accordingly.
The previously used IP addresses (45.129.44.191, 45.135.247.226, 193.148.164.98) will remain active. This adjustment affects the following products: MariaDB, RabbitMQ, Redis, OpenSearch, and LogMe. Our Help Center is always at your disposal if you have any questions.
STACKIT Windows Server now available on second-generation Intel machine types with overprovisioning. From 17.09.2025 we can offer you Windows Servers on Intel Gen2 machine types with CPU-overprovisioning. This gives you access to newer hardware with improved performance. As previously announced, the first generation of Intel machine types is already deprecated.
Our Help Center is always at your disposal if you have any questions.
From 09.09.2025 we can offer you a new service STACKIT CLI. This is a powerful command-line tool and offers the possibility to manage your STACKIT services easily.
We have continuously added new services and features, such as verbosity levels, structured logging, and support for profiles.
You can install the STACKIT CLI on macOS using Homebrew and on Linux using APT and Snap. For detailed instructions, see our Installation guide.
Our Help Center is always at your disposal if you have any questions.
After the successful General Availability (GA) release of the STACKIT Key Management Service (KMS), we would like to inform you that the KMS API v1beta is deprecated and will be removed after October 15, 2025. If you are still using the KMS API v1beta we advise you to migrate to the KMS API v1.
Breaking changes between v1beta and v1:
Our Help Center is always at your disposal if you have any questions.
We are happy to announce the release of our brand new STACKIT Logs service.
Logs is a managed service for centralizing and analyzing log data. Seamlessly collect logs from all your applications and infrastructure, and use powerful, real-time query capabilities to instantly search your data. The service integrates natively with Grafana, allowing you to build custom dashboards to monitor your systems effectively.
Our service is built on Grafana Loki, the open-source engine that has become the de-facto standard in cloud-native logging.
Key Features:
For more information and detailed documentation, please visit our documentation.
Our Help Center is always at your disposal if you have any questions.
We are happy to announce the release of our brand new STACKIT Key Management Service (KMS).
KMS is a STACKIT managed service that simplifies the creation, management, and use of cryptographic keys, allowing you to perform cryptographic operations securely and efficiently.
The KMS API simplifies the integration of key management into your applications and workflows.
Key Features:
Generate cryptographic keys of the following variants: AES-256, RSA-2048, RSA-3072, RSA-4096 Bring your own keys by uploading them to KMS Key Rotation Enables the encryption and decryption of customer data with keys stored in KMS For more information and detailed documentation, please visit our documentation.
Our Help Center is always at your disposal if you have any questions.
The STACKIT Cloud Foundry Portal got a major update, now offering intuitive Cloud Foundry organisation- and space-management, as documented here.
STACKIT project owners can now change Cloud Foundry organisation quotas and assign the Cloud Foundry organisation manager role from the STACKIT Portal.
Our Help Center is always at your disposal if you have any questions.
As already announced in our API documentation, we would like to inform you that IaaS-API v1beta1 is deprecated and will be removed after September 01, 2025.
If you are still using IaaS-API v1beta1 we advise you to migrate to IaaS-API v1. IaaS-API v1 is a stable release and offers the same endpoints and functionality as v1beta1.
To improve the stability and performance of our services, we added two new IP addresses to our service gateway:
Action required: Please update your firewall or network configurations to include these new IP addresses. The existing IP address 45.135.247.226 will remain active, but we recommend adding the new ones to ensure continued, uninterrupted access to our services. This is affecting our services: MariaDB, RabbitMQ, Redis, OpenSearch and LogMe on our external environment only. Our Help Center is always at your disposal if you have any questions.
To improve the stability and performance of our services, we’ve added two new IP addresses to our service gateway:
Action Required: Please update your firewall or network configurations to include these new IP addresses. The existing IP address 45.135.247.226 will remain active, but we recommend adding the new ones to ensure continued, uninterrupted access to our services. This is affecting our Sevices: MariaDB, RabbitMQ, Redis, OpenSearch and LogMe on our external Environment only. Our Help Center is always at your disposal if you have any questions.
We are happy to announce that our Observability Alertmanager now supports sending notifications to Google Chat spaces via webhooks.
The integration can be configured through the Observability API. For an example on how to set it up, refer to the Observability documentation. For detailed information on the API itself, see the Observability API documentation .
We now support Kubernetes version 1.33.
You can find documentation on how to manually apply minor or patch version updates in the official STACKIT Kubernetes Engine Documentation. For more information about our release management process, you can find them here.
Important: With Kubernetes 1.33 there will be a new deny-all NetworkPolicy introduced, which blocks Network Traffic in the namespace kube-system. If there is custom workload in the namespace, please apply additional NetworkPolicies for Ingress and Egress.
Additionally, please note that Kubernetes version 1.30 has reached the end of its official support and will be removed from the STACKIT Kubernetes Engine (SKE). On September 17, 2025, all SKE clusters running Kubernetes version 1.30 will be automatically migrated to Kubernetes version 1.31.
Our Help Center is always at your disposal if you have any questions.
From 05.08.2025 we can offer you a new service MongoDB Flex Performance Advisor in the STACKIT Portal and also in the STACKIT API.
The PA is visible after you have entered your data into your instance. Without data in your instance, this feature will not show any results as it needs queries and data to analyze.
Our Help Center is always at your disposal if you have any questions.
From 29.07.2025 we can offer you a new Kubernetes version (1.33) as a preview for your STACKIT Kubernetes Engine (SKE) Cluster.
This new version offers you the possibility to benefit from the latest Kubernetes features and improvements.
We would like to inform you that the 28.07.25 version has been updated. This change affects the idle connection timeout for the following services: MariaDB, Redis, RabbitMQ, LogMe2, and OpenSearch. Previously set to several days, the timeout is now reduced to 60 minutes. Note: This change applies only to the above-mentioned data services and does not affect their Cloud Foundry counterparts ordered through the Cloud Foundry Marketplace. Key benefits:
We would like to inform you that the 28.07.25 version has been updated. This change affects the idle connection timeout for the following services: MariaDB, Redis, RabbitMQ, LogMe2, and OpenSearch. Previously set to several days, the timeout is now reduced to 60 minutes. Note: This change applies only to the above-mentioned Data Services and does not affect their Cloud Foundry counterparts ordered through the Cloud Foundry Marketplace. Key Benefits:
This change is part of our ongoing efforts to enhance performance and reliability.
Our Help Center is always at your disposal if you have any questions.
We would like to inform you that the 28.07.25 version has been updated. This change affects the idle connection timeout for the following services: MariaDB, Redis, RabbitMQ, LogMe2, and OpenSearch. Previously set to several days, the timeout is now reduced to 60 minutes.
Note: This change applies only to the above-mentioned Data Services and does not affect their Cloud Foundry counterparts ordered through the Cloud Foundry Marketplace.
Key Benefits:
This change is part of our ongoing efforts to enhance performance and reliability.
Our Help Center is always at your disposal if you have any questions.
From 18.07.2025 we can offer you a new service Git-10 Subscription. This is perfect for small businesses or startups and offers the possibility to provide 10 users with 10GB of storage at a significantly lower price point.
Feature: Flexible Storage for STACKIT Git
As of now, STACKIT Git supports flexible storage. All STACKIT Git instances can now scale their storage capacity as needed, with monthly billing based on actual usage. This provides the flexibility larger organizations require while still allowing smaller teams to scale effortlessly as they grow.
If you have any questions, our Help Center is always at your disposal.
We would like to inform you that we will deprecate the service account access token feature effective December 17, 2025.
As of that date, it will no longer be possible to create new long-lived access tokens for service accounts. We recommend that you authenticate your clients with the service account key method, which also enhances security. For a smooth transition, we offer a migration guide.
Our Help Center is always at your disposal if you have any questions.
As of now, STACKIT Secrets Manager supports editing secrets with a JSON editor directly within your Service Dashboard. For secrets containing simple key-value pairs as a string, you can still switch back to the familiar key-value pair mode.
Our Help Center is always available if you have any questions.
From June 27, 2025 we can offer you a new service STACKIT Container Registry via the STACKIT Portal.
This is free of charge during the beta phase and offers the possibility to store, manage, and share your container images within the secure STACKIT Cloud.
As of now, the STACKIT Container Registry supports the following key features:
This beta release is ideal for small and medium-sized teams. We are actively iterating based on your feedback to ensure a scalable and reliable solution for all software development needs when the product reaches General Availability status.
Access the STACKIT Container Registry now through the STACKIT Portal and share your valuable feedback with us.
We would like to inform you that it is now possible to order STACKIT PostgreSQL Flex instances with the size of 4 TB. Before, the maximum size of one instance was 2 TB. Our Help Center is always at your disposal if you have any questions.
We would like to inform you about a change we made to instances with the following plans:
This release introduces enhancements to the mentioned Observability plans, with a specific focus on improving query performance and capabilities of caching related to the Loki component.
Newly created instances will already have those changes and existing instances are adjusted with those improvements.
We now support Kubernetes in the version 1.31.
This release consists of 45 enhancements: 11 enhancements have graduated to stable, 22 enhancements are moving to beta, and 12 enhancements are entering alpha. For more details refer to the official release announcement or official release notes.
The documentation how to manually apply minor or patch version updates can be found in the official STACKIT Kubernetes documentation. You can find additional information to our release process here.
Please be aware that SKE will align with the official End of Life for Kubernetes versions. Therefore, version 1.31 will be fully supported until the 28th of October 2025.
On the flip side, Kubernetes version 1.28 has reached the end of its official maintenance support. Therefore, this version will be removed from the STACKIT Kubernetes Engine (SKE). We will automatically update all clusters running with Kubernetes version 1.28 to 1.29 on 26th of February 2025.
To ensure the stability of your Kubernetes clusters, SKE reserves resources on all nodes of the cluster to provide memory and CPU for system components. The amount of reserved resources varies depending on the size of the respective nodes.
New Kubernetes clusters created from 21.07.2025 will have changes in their available resources. We will adjust the amount of reserved resources by SKE and utilize the calculation as described below.
For memory resources, SKE reserves the following:
For CPU resources, SKE reserves the following:
Existing Kubernetes clusters will (currently) remain unchanged in their available resources and will be adjusted on 22.07.2025. Thus, a node roll will be triggered on the next given maintenance window of the cluster.
More information can be found in the SKE documentation: Quotas and limits.
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact our Help Center.
We are happy to announce our new service releases for STACKIT MariaDB 10.6
From May 6th, 2025 we can offer you the new STACKIT AI Model Serving service.
STACKIT AI Model Serving offers you easy pay-as-you-go access to proven GenAI models, such as Llama 3.3 or Gemma, in a secure environment on the data-sovereign STACKIT Cloud. As a building block of our Data & AI Platform, STACKIT AI Model Serving enables you to use various Large Language Models (LLMs) with maximum data sovereignty. Your data and your queries are neither stored nor used to train models. You choose the LLM that is right for you and receive a seamless user experience when integrating it into your applications thanks to our API.
Our Help Center is always at your disposal if you have any questions.
We would like to inform you that the STACKIT PostgreSQL Flex Version 13 will reach the end of support on December 01, 2025. All existing services with PostgreSQL Version 13 must be updated to PostgreSQL Version 14 or higher. You can find more information about our on the PostgreSQL Release notes. Our Help Center is always at your disposal if you have any questions.
From April 30, 2025, we can offer you a new service: The STACKIT Marketplace.
The STACKIT Marketplace is a curated platform designed to provide access to a wide array of third-party cloud solutions, all within the secure and sovereign environment of the STACKIT Cloud. The Marketplace is designed to benefit a diverse audience, including businesses migrating to the STACKIT Cloud, organizations prioritizing data sovereignty, companies in specific industries seeking tailored solutions, and vendors looking to expand their reach.
The STACKIT Marketplace offers you:
We will continuously expand the catalog and all functionalities. Both customers and vendors are invited to actively request products and explore ISV partnership opportunities.
Our Help Center is always at your disposal if you have any questions.
We would like to inform you that we have replaced MOSS API, which was accessible via this url with Server Backup Management API, Server Update Management API and IaaS API.
This change allows you to use the services with the same authentication as all other STACKIT services. The Server Backup and Update management can also be used in STACKIT CLI and STACKIT Terraform providers.
Previous endpoints in MOSS API related to servers, server backups and server updates will stop to work on October 15th, 2025.
Recommended Action: We encourage you to migrate your automations to use the latest versions of the APIs.
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us via support ticket.
We would like to inform you that we have replaced MOSS API, which was accessible via this url with Server Backup Management API, Server Update Management API and IaaS API.
This change allows you to use the services with the same authentication as all other STACKIT services. The Server Backup and Update management can also be used in STACKIT CLI and STACKIT Terraform providers.
Previous endpoints in MOSS API related to servers, server backups and server updates will stop to work on October 15th, 2025.
Recommended Action: We encourage you to migrate your automations to use the latest versions of the APIs.
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us via support ticket.
We are happy to announce that “STACKIT Network Area” (SNA) is now available.
SNA is an “Organizational Network” that interconnects multiple projects. Beside the project interconnection, the projects are connected to the internet as well. Access may be granted via Security Rules. External networks (e.g. your own environments) can be easily and effectively connected to all projects of an SNA as a hybrid cloud.
Based on the new SNA feature, we will provide you further functionalities in the future:
You can already configure your SNA already via the STACKIT Portal and STACKIT API. Start your SNA journey now and check out our documentation (STACKIT Network Area (SNA) in the Knowledge Base and API Documentation).
We are happy to announce that you can now request your own dedicated Git instance from the STACKIT portal. This is perfect for teams of up to 100 users.
With over 130GB of storage, you will have plenty of space to manage your projects and take control of your software development process.
STACKIT Git enables teams to collaborate on software development projects while maintaining control and security. Features such as version control, pull requests, issue tracking, and integrated discussions allow you to:
Find out more about STACKIT Git in our STACKIT Docs.
We are happy to announce the beta release of our brand new STACKIT Key Management Service (KMS).
KMS is a STACKIT managed service that simplifies the creation, management, and use of cryptographic keys, allowing you to perform cryptographic operations securely and efficiently.
The KMS API simplifies the integration of key management into your applications and workflows.
Key Features:
Generate cryptographic keys of the following variants: AES-256, RSA-2048, RSA-3072, RSA-4096 Bring your own keys by uploading them to KMS Key Rotation Enables the encryption and decryption of customer data with keys stored in KMS If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us via support ticket.
We are happy to announce the immediate availability of PostgreSQL version 17. This release delivers significant performance and extensibility enhancements, including: Improved performance for large datasets and complex queries: experience faster processing of large datasets and complex queries. Enhanced parallel query support: Benefit from faster execution times thanks to improved support for parallel queries. Improved JSON and XML data format support: Leverage enhanced support for JSON and XML data formats. As of this week, the larger flavors 16.32 and 16.128 are available again and the “Create Database” endpoint can now be accessed through the Portal. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us via support ticket.
We will be applying security patches and restarting your workload. Replica system restarts should be completed in under a minute.
Our DBA team can assist with restore operations. Create a ticket with details about storage and credentials.
We are excited to introduce new features in SQLServer Flex:
We would like to inform you that our Billing Account API and Customer API are now deprecated and will be removed on July 20, 2025.
We are also happy to introduce our new replacement APIs:
https://docs.api.stackit.cloud/documentation/invoice-exporter/version/v1https://docs.api.stackit.cloud/documentation/customer/version/v2Please migrate to the new APIs before the removal date to avoid service disruption.
We are excited to announce the release of Windows Server 2025, which is now available for order in STACKIT. Windows Server 2025 offers new advanced security features, enhanced flexibility, and improved performance, tailored for our modern IT infrastructure. It builds on the strong foundation of its predecessor and introduces a range of innovative enhancements to adapt to your needs.
For more details on how to order a Windows Server 2025 server, visit Creating a new Windows Server with the Cloud Portal.
The IaaS-API, previously showcased in our system demo, is now officially general available. The IaaS-API becomes the standard for managing infrastructure within STACKIT.
We’ve compiled an overview of the new features and changes introduced with the IaaS-API. You can find it here.
The access to the Infrastructure-API will be removed on 02.07.2025. We strongly encourage you to migrate your applications to the IaaS-API.
We are excited to announce the introduction of Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) to enhance your account security.
With MFA, you can now protect your non-federated account with an extra layer of security by using either a TOTP application like Google Authenticator or Authy, or by receiving a verification code via email, which ensures that even if your password is compromised, your account remains secure.
Getting started is simple! Just log in to your account, and follow the prompts to enable MFA. Choose the verification method that best suits your needs and enjoy the peace of mind that comes with enhanced security.
We are proud to announce that the official STACKIT Python Software Development Kit (SDK) is now available.
You can find more information and instructions on how to use the STACKIT Python SDK on GitHub.
Our Help Center is always at your disposal if you have any questions.
The STACKIT MongoDB Flex Version 6.0 will soon reach the end of support on July 01, 2025.
All existing services with the MongoDB Version 6.0 must be updated to MongoDB Version 7.
If you need assistance for updating your data to the new version or if there are any questions, our support is always available via the Help Center.
We have implemented a new API Endpoint for you to get all STACKIT Public IP Ranges used by our STACKIT services (e.g. Public IPs). New IP ranges are also available in advance.
The new endpoint allows you to find out which IPs our services use for external communication and enables you to adjust e.g. Security Rules in your own environment.
You can find more information on the API-Endpoint in the API Exlorer.
In the past, there were different names for the same functionality for technical reasons.
In order to resolve this situation and simplify it in the future, we will combine the billing of “Floating IP” and “Router IP” to “Public IP Address (IPv4)”.
The price remains unchanged. We hope that this makes billing even easier and simpler for you.
We have implemented a new API Endpoint for you to get all STACKIT Public IP Ranges used by our STACKIT services (e.g. Public IPs). New IP ranges are also available in advance.
The new endpoint allows you to find out which IPs our services use for external communication and enables you to adjust e.g. Security Rules in your own environment.
You can find more information on the API-Endpoint.
We are happy to announce that a new version of our Identity Provider (IdP) is available since October 6, 2024.
The new version introduces several improvements, including:
Now offering English and German language options on our login and registration screens for a more personalized and seamless experience.
In order to improve the reliability and the security we have implemented a change in the process which we use to trigger the update installation on your servers.
Until now we were using a process in which:
Now we have started to use STACKIT Server Agent running as a service on your servers. It will make the process more reliable as it does not depend on other settings in the operating system or in the security groups. If you have the agent installed, you do not need to run additional scripts to configure the update service after server creation.
In order for the update process to work properly, please do not stop or uninstall the agent. We have automatically installed it on your servers with active update management process.
If any settings were changed that prevented the update process from working properly until now, they might have also affected the automated installation of the agent. In these cases, please install the STACKIT Server Agent manually following this guideline.
We are happy to announce that our new product STACKIT Run Command is now available in BETA version. You can install the STACKIT Server Agent automatically on your servers and use STACKIT Run Command to execute scripts remotely.
Key Features:
Impact:
We are happy to announce that our new product STACKIT Run Command is now available in BETA version. You can install the STACKIT Server Agent automatically on your servers and use STACKIT Run Command to execute scripts remotely.
Key Features:
Impact:
PostgreSQL Version 16 can be ordered. This version offers significant improvements in performance and extendability. Additionally, the pgVector extension is now available, allowing for efficient handling of vector data. Key features:
We are happy to announce our new feature for STACKIT Portal: You are now able to create an incident or service request support ticket directly in the STACKIT Portal without having to switch to the STACKIT Help Center.
Just make sure that you have the required project roles. You can find information on how to create a ticket in the STACKIT Portal and which roles are applicable in our official documentation.
It is still possible to create a ticket via STACKIT Help Center as usual.
A number of new features in our DNS product are available to you:
Also check out the DNS How-Tos for more information on some of the new features.
We are happy to announce our new service releases for STACKIT Redis 7
You can find more information about our life cycle here.
The following versions will soon reach the end of support period and will be obsolete on the December 31, 2024:
Plan to update to the new product. In our Knowledge Base you will find tutorials to help you migrate the data to the new services. Please feel free to contact our Help Center if you need any assistance.
Today, the new STACKIT Identity Provider (IDP) was released. We are also happy to announce that the new IDP was integrated in the STACKIT CLI on v0.9.0, where it is used for user authentication.
This also means that the user authentication on previous STACKIT CLI versions is no longer guaranteed to work for all services.
So please make sure to update your STACKIT CLI to the latest version to ensure that you can continue to use all STACKIT services.
Today, we introduced a new option to give you more control over the resource usage of your SKE clusters: you can now disable system components on selected node pools. To use this new feature, you need to set the new field allowSystemComponents to false in the node pool configuration of your cluster. However, at least one node pool per cluster needs to have system components enabled.
Here is an example:
Disable System Components
kubernetes: version: "1.29"nodepools:- name: "pool 1" allowSystemComponents: true # ...more configuration options- name: "pool 2" allowSystemComponents: false # ...more configuration options- name: "pool 3"- allowSystemComponents: false # ...more configuration optionsIn the future, this option will be available in the STACKIT Cloud Portal.
Kubernetes version 1.26 has reached the end of its official maintenance support. Therefore, we will remove this version from the STACKIT Kubernetes Engine (SKE). We will automatically update all clusters running with Kubernetes version 1.26 to 1.27 on 31st of July 2024.
We already support three newer Kubernetes versions (1.27, 1.28 & 1.29). Please update your clusters soon.
In case you have questions you can find more information regarding the v1.27 Kubernetes version here & our SKE updating process here.
Change for accessing your SKE cluster:
Please note that Kubernetes version 1.27 no longer supports static token kubeconfigs. Instead, you can create short-live admin kubeconfigs. This change increases the security of your SKE cluster as you can limit the validity of a specific kubeconfig to a specific time period.
You can already use the new short-lived admin kubeconfigs with Kubernetes version 1.26. However, once you start using the new short-lived admin kubeconfigs, the old method of getting static token kubeconfigs will no longer work. Further information can be found in our STACKIT documentation.
In addition, we offer the option of accessing your SKE cluster via STACKIT CLI. Instructions can be found in our Release notes here.
We are happy to announce that our new Identity Provider (IdP) will be available starting July 9, 2024.
On this date, we will migrate from our current Identity Provider system to a new and enhanced Identity system. This upgrade will enable us to launch and offer new features more efficiently in the future.
The new STACKIT IDP introduces several significant improvements, including:
We look forward to providing you with a better and more secure experience.
We are happy to announce that our new “Assume Role” feature is now available.
In the past, it was difficult for you to give our service agents access to your project. It was necessary to add them to existing roles such as Owner or Editor, which caused additional delays and challenges.
We developed a solution which allows you to give the service agent a temporary authorization for a specific project. For a time span of 24 hours, the service agents can assist you directly with your issue. When this time period expires, no access will be available any more.
With the new role support.assume-role-responder, which is a prerequisite for the Assume Role feature, you have a dedicated role in your organization that can monitor the support access.
Detailed instructions on how to enable and use the Assume Role feature can be found in the official documentation.
We are happy to announce that you are now able to order STACKIT PostgreSQL Flex instances with the size of 2 TB. Before, the maximum size of one instance was 1 TB.
The STACKIT PostgreSQL Flex Version 12 will soon reach the end of support on Dezember 01, 2024. All existing services with the PostgreSQL Version 12 must be updated to PostgreSQL Version 13 or higher. You can find more information about our life cycle here: PostgreSQL Release notes
We are happy to announce the new MongoDB Flex Version 7 for STACKIT.
You can find more information about our life cycle here.
In our Docs you will find guides to help you change to the new version. Please feel free to contact our Help Center if you need any assistance.
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 offer known as STACKIT Load Balancer. This brings numerous benefits that include improved scalability, stability and performance.
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 Balancers for every Kubernetes service of type LoadBalancer.
For more information, see our documentation on Load Balancer 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.
We are happy to announce a new and more convenient way to access your SKE clusters: SKE Login
To use this new feature, you need to follow these steps:
stackit auth loginstackit config set --project-id IDstackit ske kubeconfig create CLUSTER_NAME --loginThe new kubeconfig type contains no user credentials, and instead retrieves valid short-lived credentials via the STACKIT CLI. You can therefore share this kubeconfig with your colleagues, and they will only be able to access the cluster if they have the permissions to do so.
We are happy to announce a new and more convenient way to access your SKE clusters: SKE Login
To use this new feature, you need to follow these steps:
stackit auth loginstackit config set --project-id IDstackit ske kubeconfig create CLUSTER_NAME --loginThe new kubeconfig type contains no user credentials, and instead retrieves valid short-lived credentials via the STACKIT CLI. You can therefore share this kubeconfig with your colleagues, and they will only be able to access the cluster if they have the permissions to do so.
The STACKIT MongoDB Flex Version 5.0 will soon reach the end of support on December 01, 2024.
All existing services with the MongoDB Version 5.0 must be updated to MongoDB Version 6.
We are proud to announce that the official STACKIT CLI is now released in the BETA version.
The CLI is a command line tool that provides an user-friendly interface for STACKIT services.
It is currently in a BETA state, more services and functionality will be supported soon.
You can find more information and instructions on how to install here:
We are looking forward for your feedback and feature requests!
If you need any support, please raise an issue in the GitHub repo or create a ticket in the Help Center.
The STACKIT MongoDB Flex flavor MongoDB-Flex-1.1-Replica-EU01 will soon reach the end of support on the December 01, 2024.
All existing services with the flavor MongoDB-Flex-1.1-Replica-EU01 will not be affected.
We are happy to announce that the STACKIT Kubernetes Engine (SKE) is introducing Patchdays for the operating system (OS) of the worker nodes.
The Patchday takes place every second Wednesday of the month. The following actions are carried out on a patchday:
preview.preview OS images are supported.deprecated or even expired.On patchdays, the operating system of the worker nodes of your cluster is updated to a newer version if you have “automatic updates” activated. The update starts within the maintenance window set in the cluster. If this function is deactivated, we plan an update on the following patch day.
For more information, see our documentation on Updates for Kubernetes versions and Operating System versions in SKE and Updating and Maintaining an SKE Cluster.
We are happy to announce new Kubernetes versions for STACKIT Kubernetes Engine (SKE). We now support Kubernetes in the version 1.28.8.
This release consists of 45 enhancements: 12 enhancements have graduated to stable, 14 enhancements are moving to beta, and 19 enhancements are entering alpha. For more details refer to the official release announcement or official release notes.
The documentation how to manually apply minor or patch version updates can be found in the official STACKIT Kubernetes documentation. You can find additional information to our release process here.
This version is running in state “preview” for one week from now on and will be set to “supported” on 12.04.2024.
Please be aware that SKE will align with the official End of Life for Kubernetes versions. Therefore, version 1.28 will be fully supported until the 28th of October 2024.
We are happy to announce the integration of the secrets management directly into the STACKIT portal. In addition to an updated user interface, we also provision newly created instances to a new backend.
Therefore we will also change the Secrets Manager Endpoint prod.sm.eu01.stackit.cloud to a new IP-Address. If you have explicitly defined outbound firewall rules to manage your secrets, you must update them in advance and allow the new IP address:
Old IP Adress: 193.148.175.212
New IP Adress: 45.129.42.99
For more information, see our Secrets Manager to get started. If there are any questions, support is available via the Help Center.
We are happy to announce that STACKIT Confidential Kubernetes product is now available.
STACKIT Confidential Kubernetes combines the advantages of the popular orchestration tool Kubernetes with the high security standards of confidential computing. The solution is based on the Kubernetes Engine Constellation by Edgeless Systems. It allows users to deploy and operate self-managed Kubernetes clusters with extensive security features without much effort. The highlight: clusters are completely isolated from the underlying cloud infrastructure and third-party access. They are completely encrypted throughout, including the storage at runtime. These properties are verifiable to third parties.
For more information, see the product page or use our tutorials to get started.
We are happy to announce that STACKIT Cloud Foundry now supports 32 GB RAM instances as documented here.
There are also some other changes to note:
We are happy to announce new Kubernetes versions for STACKIT Kubernetes Engine (SKE).
We now support Kubernetes in the version 1.27.11. Additionally, the Kubernetes patch versions 1.26.14 and 1.25.16 were introduced.
Please be aware that your static-token kubeconfig will be invalid as soon as you update to Kubernetes version 1.27. You need to create a new short-lived kubeconfig via STACKIT Cloud Portal or SKE-API. For additional information you can read our SKE documentation.
This release consists of 60 enhancements: 13 enhancements have graduated to stable, 29 enhancements are moving to beta, and 18 enhancements are entering alpha. Also, 14 features have been deprecated or removed. For more details refer to the official release announcement or official release notes.
The documentation how to manually apply minor or patch version updates can be found in the official STACKIT Kubernetes documentation. You can find additional information to our release process here.
This version is running in state “preview” for one week from now on and will be set to “supported” on 12.03.2024.
Please be aware that SKE will align with the official End of Life for Kubernetes versions. Therefore, version 1.27 will be fully supported until the 28th of June 2024.
Kubernetes version 1.25 has reached the end of its official maintenance support. Therefore, we will remove this version from the STACKIT Kubernetes Engine (SKE). We will automatically update all clusters running with Kubernetes version 1.25 to 1.26 on 29th of April 2024.
We already support two newer Kubernetes versions (1.26 and 1.27). Please update your clusters as soon as possible.
In case you have questions you can find more information regarding the v1.25 Kubernetes version here & our SKE updating process here.
A runc vulnerability (called “Leaky Vessels”) was recently identified by Snyk Security Labs. For Kubernetes this means an attacker could use this vulnerability to escape the container and gain unauthorized access to the underlying host operating system. For additional information, you can see the following resources:
This means for you:
If you have “Automatic OS Updates” enabled: You don’t need to do anything. We have released a new OS (Version 3760.2.0) which mitigates this vulnerability. A rolling update of the worker nodes of your cluster will be performed in your configured maintenance window. Detailed instructions how to configure “Automatic OS updates” can be found in the STACKIT Kubernetes Engine documentation.
If you have “Automatic OS Updates” disabled: You need to manually update the OS version of your worker nodes as soon as possible. We have also informed the project owners of affected clusters via email. Otherwise, remaining SKE clusters will be automatically updated on Wednesday, 28.02.2024, in their configured maintenance window. Additionally, we highly advise to use our “Automatic OS updates” feature in the future.
If there are any questions, support is available via the Help Center.
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.
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.
We are proud to announce that STACKIT MongoDB Flex is now available on CloudFoundry.
This feature will help you to use the new MongoDB Service in your CloudFoundry environment.
If there are any questions, our support is always available via the Help Center.
The service STACKIT MongoDB service (not STACKIT MongoDB Flex) will soon reach the end of support on the 31.05.2024.
Since a while the new STACKIT MongoDB Flex service is for you available. With the new service you have a lot of new features available to create a better database for your application requirements.
Please plan your upgrade in advance and contact the MongoDB team through the Help Center.
If you need assistance for migrating your data to the new service or if there are any questions, our support is always available via the Help Center.
We are proud to announce that the official STACKIT Go Software Development Kit (SDK) and Terraform Provider are now available.
These tools help developers in their daily work by simplifying access to our STACKIT APIs and offering the possibility to automate STACKIT resources.
You can find more information and instructions on how to use here:
If you need any support, please raise an issue in the GitHub repo or create a ticket in the Help Center.
We are happy to announce that STACKIT DNS now provides an integration with ExternalDNS via the brand new Webhook Provider.
ExternalDNS automates the management of DNS records for Kubernetes services.
For more information, see the links above or use our tutorial for ExternalDNS to get started.
We are excited to announce the launch of STACKIT Help Center 2.0 on November 2, 2023.
This upgrade comes with many benefits for you. In addition to creating a ticket for an incident or service request, you can also:
all in an improved user interface.
This will enhance your experience with our service by making it more focused and transparent, allowing for faster resolution of service requests by our support team. Running tickets will continue to be processed and can be viewed in the follow-up.
As usual, additional information can be found in our STACKIT Docs.
We believe that our new STACKIT Help Center 2.0 will enhance your customer experience. Thank you for your confidence and ongoing support.
We are happy to announce that STACKIT MongoDB Flex is able to execute upgrade flavor changes in the Portal.
With the new self-service you are able to scale up your systems by your own according to your requirements.
We are happy to announce that STACKIT DNS now provides integrations with Certbot and Cert-Manager. This provides the use of the DNS01 challenge for issuing certificates via ACME.
For more information, see the links above or use our tutorials for Cert-Manager and Certbot to get started.
We are happy to announce that our new service STACKIT Server Update Management Service is released in GA state.
The Server Update Management Service permits to easily automate the operating system (OS) update process.
You can set up the service by using the comprehensive and easy-to-use management interface or API.
Server Update Management reduces the risk of attacks and security breaches by keeping the operating system up to date with automatically installed updates.
You can find more information about the new Server Update Management Service here.
We are happy to announce that the new version 6 of MongoDB is now available. With the new version we will replace the MongoDB version 5 which is no longer available for order in the service STACKIT MongoDB.
If you have the requirement to use version 5 from your application, you should request the migration to STACKIT MongoDB Flex.
The STACKIT MongoDB Flex service has several advantages f.e. you have the ability to choose between MongoDB version 5 and 6.
We highly recommend the migration from the STACKIT MongoDB service to the new STACKIT MongoDB Flex service. This can be also requested via the Help Center.
For an upgrade of your instances in the service STACKIT MongoDB version 6, you can create a ticket at the Help Center. Our team will get in touch with you.
At this point we can not provide an automated upgrade but it will be available in the fall 2023.
From now on we offer the Object Storage Management API together with our central STACKIT API Gateway. This enables functionalities to be expanded in the future.
That means, that the URL of the API-endpoint of the Object Storage Management changes.
Validate the usage of the old API-endpoint and replace it by the new one:
https://api.stackit.cloud/object-storage-apihttps://object-storage.api.eu01.stackit.cloud
Beside the URL of the endpoints, nothing changes in the first place. Also the API specification remains unchanged.We are happy to announce that the STACKIT Subdomains feature is now available available in STACKIT DNS.
The STACKIT Subdomain feature that allows you to create a zone as DNS subdomain within one of five domains hosted by STACKIT, namely:
runs.onstackit.cloudstackit.rocksstackit.ggstackit.zonestackit.runOne key advantages of this feature is how easy it makes getting started with DNS. The entire process has been designed to be straightforward, while eliminating the typical hassles associated with domain setup. Another significant benefit is the cost-efficiency it brings. By allowing you to harness our DNS services without buying a new domain, we provide you with a swift and economical solution to set up your DNS configurations.
We are happy to announce our new service releases for STACKIT OpenSearch2 The Service are offered with completely new Service Plans. You can find more information about our life cycle here.
The following versions will soon reach the end of support period and will be obsolete on the November 31, 2023: STACKIT Elasticsearch (all versions) Plan to update to the new product. In our Knowledge Base you will find tutorials to help you migrate the data to the new services. Please feel free to contact our Help Center if you need any assistance.
We are happy to announce the release of our brand new service Secrets Manager.
Secrets Manager is a managed service that provides a secure key-value-store for sensitive data such as:
It enables the protection and management of secrets.
The API of the Secrets Manager enables easy integration into applications and workflows.
This makes it possible to separate source code and secrets, and compliance requirements can be implemented.
It also provides extensive integration into various tools such as Kubernetes Secrets Operator, Ansible and Terraform.
With our getting started guide at our documentation for the Secrets Manager you get everything to start right now.
We are happy to announce the release of STACKIT DNS.
STACKIT DNS is a managed service and offers fast response times and geographical reliability through Anycast DNS. This ensures that the DNS resolution is available in the best possible way. Through integration in the STACKIT cloud, DNS zones can be managed together with other cloud services in one place.
The service brings you:
We are happy to announce the release of our new service STACKIT MongoDB Flex.
STACKIT MongoDB Flex is the successful continuation of the MongoDB service. The service has already improved on several aspects.
The service is already available in the Portal and can be managed simultaneously via the STACKIT API.
We are happy to announce the release of our new service STACKIT PostgreSQL Flex. STACKIT PostgreSQL Flex is the successful continuation of the PostgreSQL service. The service has already improved on several aspects.
We are happy to announce the introduction of the Resource Manager within the STACKIT Portal.
STACKIT Resource Manager organizes resources into a hierarchical structure consisting of Organization and Projects.
With the Getting started guide from our customer documentation you get every information you need to know.
We are pleased to announce the release of our new service STACKIT MongoDB Flex.
STACKIT MongoDB Flex is the successful continuation of the MongoDB service. The service has already improved on several aspects.
The service is already available in the Portal and can be managed simultaneously via the STACKIT API.
We would like to inform you that the new MongoDB version 5 is now available.
MongoDB 4.2 version is reaching the end of the support period and will be deprecated on the 31.03.2023.
Please plan your update in good time and get in contact with the MongoDB team via the Help Center. The team will help you with the update.
We are constantly improving the usability of our STACKIT portal and making it even more user-friendly, always following the slogan “Where cloud innovations meets usability”.
A brief overview of the latest features and improvements in the STACKIT Portal:
New dashboard on project level With the widgets on the dashboard you get at a glance info about your project, current project costs, STACKIT status, quotas and quicklinks to helpful documentation.
Learn button 1.0 If you click on the learn button in the upper right corner, you will quickly and easily find the right documentation for the respective topic.
These improvements are now available.
We offer now Redis 6 with SSL encryption. This provides improved security end-to-end for all new instances.
The Redis 5 plans offered to date will be deprecated by December 1, 2022 and will be terminated June 1, 2023.
Please plan your transition in good time. You can find a tutorial on the migration in out product documentation.
As of today the Data Services Access API is publicly available, allowing you to programmatically order and manage your MariaDB, LogMe, PostgreSQL, RabbitMQ, Redis and Elasticsearch instances.
As of today the data services access API is publicly available, allowing you to programmatically order and manage your MariaDB, LogMe, PostgreSQL, RabbitMQ, and Redis instances.
Starting today, we offer MariaDB 10.4 with SSL encryption. This provides improved security end-to-end for all new instances. The non-SSL plans offered to date (MariaDB 10.1 and 10.4) will be deprecated by November 1, 2022 and will be terminated May 1, 2023. Please plan your transition ahead of time. You can find a tutorial on the migration in our product documentation.
This is to inform you that the MongoDB 4.2 version is reaching the end of the support period and will be deprecated on the 30.04.2023. At this moment there is no action required from your side! We will keep you updated, when the STACKIT MongoDB Flex service (MongoDB 5 version) is released and offer you a migration service.
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.
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.
We are constantly improving the usability of our STACKIT portal and making it even more user-friendly, always following the slogan “Where cloud innovations meets usability”.
A brief overview of the latest features and improvements in the STACKIT portal.
The breadcrump has been shortened and is now accessible via a flyout that allows you to return to the previous pages.
The server network details have been restructured to provide a better overview of booked and allocated network resources
These improvements are now available.
From June 1, 2022 the STACKIT PostgreSQL and MariaDB services will be expanded to include a new extra-large-cluster service plan. The new plan will introduce 500 GB persisted disk storage for the databases. In detail, the following service plans will be available for the PostgreSQL and MariaDB services:
| Plan | Small single instance | Medium single instance | Small cluster | Medium cluster | Big cluster | Extra large cluster |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| High availability / for productive use | no | no | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| Nodes | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 |
| vCPUs per node | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 4 |
| RAM (GB) per node | 4 | 8 | 4 | 8 | 16 | 16 |
| Disk (GB) | 10 | 50 | 10 | 50 | 100 | 500 |
The new version of the associated service certificate can be found here:
PostgreSQL - EN:
Certificate – STACKIT PostgreSQL
DE:
Leistungsschein – STACKIT PostgreSQL
MariaDB - EN:
Service Certificate – STACKIT MariaDB
DE:
Leistungsschein – STACKIT MariaDB
On June 1st, 2022, the STACKIT cloud service MySQL will be renamed to MariaDB. Technically, the base functionality of the new MariaDB service will remain the same as previous, but the visible service naming will change on all relevant interfaces (service certificates, Portal, invoice, etc.). The specific service certificate adjustment can be found here:
Service certificate adjustment MySQL:
EN:
Service Certificate – STACKIT MySQL – STACKIT
DE:
Leistungsschein - STACKIT MySQL – STACKIT
Service certificate adjustment MariaDB:
EN:
Service Certificate – STACKIT MariaDB – STACKIT
DE:
Leistungsschein – STACKIT MariaDB – STACKIT
The newest version of MariaDB (10.4.24) will be released in parallel with the naming change June
1st. Already provisioned MySQL 10.1 instances prior to that date will be further available to our
customers.
On 12 May 2022 the STACKIT Cloud Foundry introduces a new load balancer in front of all applications running on the platform. This new load balancer will ensure, that the Cloud Foundry stays scalable to keep up with the rapid growing traffic handled over its *.apps.XX.cf.eu01.stackit.cloud wildcard domain and all application routes using it.
This also means that the IP Addresses of the *.apps and *.system domains change to the IP Address of the new load balancer starting on 12. May 2022. The new IP Addresses will be:
This change means for you: If you have any Firewall Rule set to the current IP Address of the *.apps or *.system domains of the internal as well as the public Cloud Foundry Instances, you have to add the new IP Addresses, or the Firewall will block traffic to your application after the new load balancer is rolled out.
On June 1st, 2022, STACKIT Cloud will adjust the prices for the Router-IP service. The adjustment only affects Public IP addresses, other services are not affected by the price adjustment. The specific price adjustment for Router-IP can be found in the current STACKIT price list (v 1.0.1). Please note that all Router-IP resources that have not been deleted by the customer before June 1st, 2022 will be billed with the adjusted price starting June 1st, 2022.
In addition, we are pleased to announce a new feature in the STACKIT portal for managing router IPs in customer projects. The feature allows customers to have a central overview of all network components within their projects. It also allows the customer to order and delete IP resources - including Router IPs - centrally.
Currently the wildcard domain URLs of Applications on Cloud Foundry provided by the platform, so called Routes, are accessible over the HTTP (Port 80) and HTTPS Endpoints (Port 443). Any Access of Applications over the HTTP Endpoint (Port 80) are currently automatically redirected to the HTTPS Endpoint.
On 07.04.2022 we will disable the HTTP (Port 80) Endpoints of Routes.
To further harden our Cloud Foundry to deliver a maximum secure experience for hosting your applications in the Cloud we will completely disable the HTTP (Port 80) Endpoint of Routes on April 7, 2022 and therefore will also no longer automatically redirect from the HTTP (Port 80) to the HTTPS (Port 443) Endpoint of your Applications Route.
Please be aware, if you are still accessing your Application over HTTP (Port 80) Endpoint, your Requests will fail after the 07.04.2022. Please change any access to your Application to the HTTPS (Port 443) Endpoint.
We’ve been busy over the last months to provide you the most professional portal from usability, functional and ui perspective.
Here a short overview about latest features and enhancements within STACKIT portal.
Implemented prices and calculations overall within portal
Integrated of availability zone feature within portal
Update and enhancement of server and volume wizard
K8s cluster node pool wizard taint and label integration
These improvements are available now.
From Februar 15, 2022 we support MongoDB in the version 4.2.18. The version update is done automatically.
We now support MongoDB in the version 4.2.16. The version update is done automatically.
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.
We have improved the display accuracy of the cloud foundry status in the STACKIT Portal. Any action which will be done via API or CLI of the underlying Cloud Foundry platform will be represented in the STACKIT Portal. In addition, error messages that occur during the creation, update or deletion of service instances are now displayed in the STACKIT portal, so that users can correct them with the help of the documentation.
We just released a new STACKIT service, which allows to easily manage the backup and restore processes for your server. Through a powerful and easy to use management UI or API, you can activate the service and protect your organizations against data loss. The automatically created backups and the simple restore procedure will increase the efficiency in your IT departments by removing the routine backup and restore related tasks.
More information about the Server Backup, see the Documentation.
It is now possible to view changes on account level as well as on projects in the STACKIT Portal. So you can see who created or deleted a project, changed permissions or ordered or deleted resources like servers.
With the clone function you can copy your data from one MongoDB instance to another MongoDB
instance. This allows you for example, to easily provide data for a testing system or quality
assurance system.
You can access this feature by opening the MongoDB dashboard in the
STACKIT Portal. The new feature is located in the Backup
section.