We’re excited to announce that our Managed Load Balancer service can now be seamlessly integrated into your Private Cloud environment. This means you can now enjoy the full benefits of our powerful load balancing solution within the secure and customisable environment of your Private Cloud.

Our Managed Load Balancer service brings a host of advantages to your Private Cloud setup. It enhances the availability and performance of your applications by distributing traffic efficiently across your Private Cloud instances. This optimises resource utilisation and reduces latency, ensuring that your services remain responsive even during peak traffic periods or in the event of server failures.

Getting started is easy. Simply create a new load balancer in the same physical location as your Private Cloud. During the creation process, you’ll have the option to select a network from your Private Cloud, ensuring seamless integration with your existing infrastructure.

To learn more about setting up and using the Managed Load Balancer service, please refer to our documentation.

In our ongoing commitment to enhance the security of your cloud infrastructure, our Managed Database services can now seamlessly integrate with your Private Cloud environment using Software-Defined Networking (SDN). You can now establish a direct, completely internal connection between your Private Cloud and any of UpCloud’s Managed Database services.

This private connectivity option adds an extra layer of protection to your sensitive data by ensuring that all traffic remains within UpCloud’s secure internal network. By eliminating exposure to the public internet, you significantly reduce the risk of unauthorised access, data breaches, and other potential security threats.

Implementing private connectivity for Managed Databases is particularly advantageous for organisations operating in regulated industries or dealing with highly confidential information. It provides an additional level of assurance, helping you meet stringent compliance requirements and maintain the utmost data privacy.

We’re thrilled to announce that Kubernetes 1.28 is now available on UpCloud’s Managed Kubernetes service. This latest update brings a range of enhancements and features that will empower you to manage your Kubernetes clusters with greater flexibility, resilience, and efficiency.

What’s new in Kubernetes 1.28:

• Expanded supported skew between control plane and node versions: Kubernetes 1.28 extends the supported skew between core node and control plane components from n-2 to n-3, providing more flexibility in managing node upgrades.
• Recovery from non-graceful node shutdown: The ability to recover from non-graceful node shutdowns is now a stable feature, ensuring improved resilience and minimising the impact of node failures.
• Changes to console output in Kubernetes clusters: The kube-apiserver no longer returns formatted text responses when requests are made to /logs/, /portforward/, /exec/, or /debug/, simplifying the development of clients and tools.
• Updates to persistent volume deletion behavior: When the PersistentVolumeClaimDeletePoilcy feature gate is enabled, the DeleteClaim reclaim policy now removes the persistent volume claim (PVC) and persistent volume (PV) in the background asynchronously.
• Enhancement to the HPA API: The v2 autoscaling API now supports pod prioritisation, enabling custom pod ranking to determine which pods to scale down first during resource contention.
• Updates to the container runtime interface (CRI): CRI now supports four new features: multi-container pods, exec probe timeouts, named ports, and container image registry configuration.
• and more …

To explore the complete set of features and improvements in Kubernetes 1.28, please refer to the official Kubernetes release notes: https://kubernetes.io/docs/setup/release/notes/

You can leverage Kubernetes 1.28 on UpCloud’s Managed Kubernetes service by deploying a new cluster in the UpCloud control panel.

Our Managed Databases now support SDN Private Networks, marking a significant enhancement in the security and connectivity of your database services. This update applies to all our Managed Database products, including MySQL, PostgreSQL, OpenSearch, and Redis, providing an advanced layer of protection and performance optimisation.

Key enhancements:

• Private network connectivity: With the new SDN Private Network support, your Managed Databases can now benefit from fully private connections. This crucial update safeguards your data by ensuring it remains isolated from the public internet.

• Effortless cloud integration: The process of connecting your Managed Databases to your cloud infrastructure has been streamlined through an intuitive user interface, making it accessible to all users, regardless of their technical expertise.

• Terraform compatibility: For those who manage their infrastructure as code, this update also introduces Terraform support for SDN Private Networks, facilitating more efficient setup and management.

• Enhanced cloud ecosystem: This feature promotes tighter integration with other SDN-enabled services at UpCloud, creating a more secure, efficient, and interconnected cloud environment.

To discover how to set up private network connectivity on new or existing Managed Databases and unlock the full potential of this feature, refer to our step-by-step tutorial.

Introducing our latest feature: the Load Balancer metrics view! With this new addition, you can delve deeper into the state of the load balancer, the sessions, error codes, and traffic levels. By providing detailed metrics and analytics, our platform empowers users to identify potential errors, optimize performance, and ensure seamless customer experiences.