Provider news · June 2024
What the providers shipped
June's tech tea from VPS Showdown: DigitalOcean struts in with DOKS control plane firewalls (early) and a bunch of other features that sound fancy but are mostly smoke and mirrors. The real kicker is the App Platform's Kafka integration in beta—finally a nod to enterprise needs. Meanwhile, Linode keeps refining LKE, which is as exciting as watching paint dry but necessary for the Kubernetes faithful. UpCloud, on the other hand, reached end-of-life on Kubernetes 1.27, which sounds like a party nobody’s crashing but is actually a bit of a downer for those clinging to outdated clusters. Oh, and beta VPN Gateways—because nothing screams "cutting edge" like IPsec connections in a test phase.
DigitalOcean
- Jun 27 DOKS control plane firewalls (early) — IP-based API-server access restriction in early availability.
- Jun 24 DOKS default health check update — Default LoadBalancer health check config updated; overrides deprecated.
- Jun 17 Managed DB log forwarding — Forward logs to OpenSearch, Elasticsearch and Rsyslog.
- Jun 14 App Platform static ingress IPs — Static ingress IP addresses for apps.
- Jun 13 DOKS Cilium Operator moves to control plane — Cilium Operator migrated off worker nodes.
- Jun 5 App Platform Kafka integration (beta) — Integrate existing Kafka databases.
- Jun 5 Daily backups in SYD1 — Daily backups available in Sydney.
Linode
- Jun 19 LKE updates — Further Kubernetes platform refinements.
UpCloud
- Jun 28 Managed Kubernetes v1.27 EOL — Kubernetes 1.27 reached end-of-life; no new clusters can be created on it.
- Jun 20 VPN Gateways available in beta — VPN Gateways beta enabling secure site-to-site IPsec connections and NAT features.