October - 2023

We’re about to come to the end of 2023 and approach the holiday season, and with that, we also come to you with another set of updates worth noting!

As most of you may already know, Ozone ships with a catalog of 100+ Tekton tasks that are vetted by the open-source community. We are now adding specific tasks to this extensive catalog, which have made it to this release. There have also been minor UI enhancements to optimize workflows further. Here’s a summary of the latest 1.2.17 release from Ozone:

1. Tekton task additions: The following tasks have now been added and made available to users:

   • Support for Postman-Newman CLI as tasks - Newman is a command-line collection runner for Postman, a popular API development and testing tool. The Newman cli task in Ozone allows you to run Postman collections for quality control on Ozone.

   • The task for Python pytest

   • Support for GitLab pipeline trigger from Ozone Catalog

   • Support for scaling node groups of an EKS cluster as a task

   • Support for deploying AWS Lambda functions as a task.

2. Enabling and disabling schedules for pipelines and releases: The feature allows users to control or manage schedules. Enabling a Schedule: When a user enables a schedule associated with a pipeline or release, it means that the predefined actions or tasks specified in that schedule will be executed as scheduled. For example, if a scan pipeline schedule is enabled, it will trigger a routine scan pipeline as planned.

Disabling a Schedule: When a user disables a schedule, it prevents the predefined actions from being automatically executed according to the schedule. Disabling a schedule can be useful in situations where temporary adjustments or interruptions are necessary. For instance, disabling a deployment schedule can temporarily stop deployment pipelines.

1. Selective namespace logging per cluster: Users can select which namespaces to log, which helps optimize storage and network costs. For example, the system namespaces provided by the cloud are stable and have no contextual value to developers. However, namespaces that host containers to which developers deploy are typically the ones that DevOps teams would like to monitor for logs.

Enhancements:

1. Trial expiry alerts: While Ozone offers a 30-day free trial of its enterprise plan, it shifts back to the free tier after 30 days. To facilitate a smooth transition to paid plans, contextual alerts are set up to remind active users of the impending downgrade.

2. Service account tokens can be set to “not expire” to facilitate developer access to clusters and logs without much dependency.

3. While configuring a pipeline run, a default timeout value is provided (1 hour) to terminate pipeline runs in case of issues and preserve resource consumption. The default timeout is customizable.

Fixes:

1. Onboarding timeout now is 20 minutes to align with virtual cluster creation. This is to eliminate errors that pop up when the trial cluster expires.

2. As Ozone boasts of a unified dashboard for multi-cluster visibility, clicking on any cluster now leads to the overview page to make it quicker to gather insights.