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Krateo 2.5.1 – The Blueprint Marketplace is Live!

Krateo 2.5.1 is a cornerstone release. Krateo 2.5.1 builds on the foundations of 2.5 and takes an important step forward: it officially opens the door to the Blueprint Marketplace.

With Blueprints, you can start from ready-made, opinionated solutions that address common use cases — install them as they are, or use them as a foundation for your own customization. From now on, every Blueprint will be tied to a minimum Krateo version, starting with 2.5.1.

Blueprint Marketplace​

The Marketplace is now live! 🎉 Explore the first set of available Blueprints here:

https://github.com/krateoplatformops-blueprints

Blueprint​

All the blueprints involving the frontend have been made multi-tenancy aware.

Highlights in this release:

  • Multi-tenancy support has been added across all frontend-related Blueprints.
  • github-scaffolding
  • github-scaffolding-with-composition-page
  • portal
  • portal-blueprint-page
  • portal-composition-page-generic
  • portal-admin-page

Generators​

Starting from Krateo 2.6, the Marketplace will also include all providers developed with the oasgen-provider.

  • New:
    • Azure DevOps Provider KOG: Supporting the gitrepository, pipeline and pipelinepermission resources. The previous Azure DevOps provider remains available until all the resources are migrated to the KOG.
  • Rewritten with oasgen-provider evolution:
    • GitHub Provider
    • GitLab Provider

Components​

Blueprint development is directly driving the evolution of Krateo’s core components.

Installer - improved upgrade workflow​

The Krateo installer-chart now has the CRD of the installer as a dependency, this allows for:

  • smoother updates and upgrades
  • avoiding manually upgrading the CRD of the installer

Frontend - more usability & control​

Frontend improvements focus on usability and control:

  • Improved data handling: Now it’s possible to add filters in the EventList.
  • More flexibility: Add buttons to table cells, edit composition values directly, and customize success messages in the Toaster.
  • Improved reliability: Cache now invalidates automatically when tokens expire; fixes to breadcrumb, filters, and navigation.
  • New visualization options: Markdown widget added.
  • Operational control: Users can now pause a composition’s reconciliation cycle. Users can edit the values in a Composition drawer and apply the changes to the cluster.

SnowPlow - more flexibility​

  • Frontend updates to support all the features above.
  • RestAction enhancement: Custom function, “serverless” REST action, exposes the jq engine to the frontend.
  • Support for all HTTP Verbs

Core components - Scale and performance​

  • Gracefully pause a composition. A composition will be paused only when all related resources are effectively paused.
  • Queue Optimization: User Event has priorities against Service Event. Event from Compositions modified by the user have higher processing priority in comparison of service reconciliation Events. It’s useful when we have thousands of compositions deployed, and the creation of a new composition doesn’t have to wait a full cycle of reconciliation before being applied
  • Queue Optimization: User-initiated events have processing priority over service reconciliation events. It’s useful when we have thousands of compositions deployed, and the creation of a new composition doesn’t have to wait a full cycle of reconciliation before being applied
  • Git-provider revision and bug fixing

OASGen Provider​

The OASGen provider underwent a massive refactoring, paving the way for new functionality and easier extensions.

  • Better separation of responsibility: new Configuration resource for every managed resource to handle authentication and configuration parameters.
  • Improved documentation: the documentation goes into details about architecture, workflow and Rest Definition, and adds a section on the new Configuration resources and a reference to the renewed Usage Guide.

Documentation Improvement​

In this release, we continued our work on expanding and refining existing documentation, as well as creating new documentation to describe new features.

FinOps​

FinOps module now has some new portal element. Staring from Krateo 2.6 the portal section will be moved in the marketplace as a dedicated blueprint.

  • Dashboard Introduction: A new dashboard has been introduced
  • Notebook upload: It’s now possible to upload a notebook defining algorithms to the FinOps engine.

Breaking Changes​

To add some essential functionality we had to introduce some breaking changes.

Frontend​

  • most widgets are now required to include the allowedResources property within widgetData, which specifies the widgets that can be added as children or referenced through resourcesRefs
  • the Table widget enforces strong typing for the data property: rows and cells must follow the new format. Tables and REST actions that populate data should be updated accordingly
  • the resourcesRefs property has changed format: previously an array, it is now an object with an items property containing the resource list
  • in the FlowChart component, the health property has been removed and replaced by icon and statusIcon.

OASGen provider​

  • Changed API group of RestDefinition from: swaggergen.krateo.io/v1alpha1 to ogen.krateo.io/v1alpha1
  • Dropped the use of standalone, shared authentication resources in favour of Configuration resources specific for every managed resource (Kind).

GitHub Provider KOG​

Changes in resources' schema due to OASGen updates:

  • authenticationRefs is substituted by configurationRef and therefore the need of substitution of the authentication CR with the configuration CR
  • Runner group resource: removed some fields from the resource CRD that can now be set on the specific configuration CR (kind: RunnerGroupConfiguration)

GitLab Provider KOG​

Changes in resources' schema due to OASGen updates:

  • authenticationRefs is substituted by configurationRef and therefore the need of substitution of the authentication CR with the configuration CR

Azure DevOps Provider KOG​

Changes in resources' schema due to OASGen updates:

  • authenticationRefs is substituted by configurationRef and therefore the need of substitution of the authentication CR with the configuration CR

What’s next for 2.6​

With version 2.6, the Marketplace will expand further:

  • operators will move into the Marketplace repository,
  • new Admin Page updates are forthcoming,
  • Introduction to the GitOps Blueprint.
  • Improved documentation of existing BluePrint
  • DataGrid pagination, enabling the display of thousands of compositions on a page