Release notes

We have released the Add-ons management functionality for CAST AI clusters. Now CAST AI clusters will be created faster without any add-ons pre-installed. Afterward, users will be able to choose the add-ons they wish to use. The Add-ons feature is available in the cluster dashboard, try it out! 

We increased the frequency of communication between the agent deployed on the client’s cluster and CAST AI and reduced the amount of data the agent sends via the network. Now CAST AI can react in as little as 15 seconds and scale the cluster as required.

We have applied minor improvements and fixes to increase the accuracy of our Available savings report.

Improved experience for selecting and managing your subscription.

Created a guide on how to disconnect your EKS cluster from CAST AI.

Last but not least, we fixed some bugs and made small improvements to the UI.

We have made cost optimization policies available to EKS clusters created outside of CAST AI! On top of the previously released “Connect your cluster” functionality, users can now onboard EKS credentials and start using CAST AI policies to reduce their cloud bills.

Created a guide on how to migrate out of EKS nodes into CAST AI selected nodes in AWS.

We have also uplifted the design of the Available Savings report, so users can better understand CAST AI recommendations and the next steps required to achieve an optimal cluster configuration.

Streamlined the workflow by reducing the number of actions required to onboard an EKS cluster and access the Available Savings report

Created a guide for the installation and configuration of VPA for pod rightsizing.

As always, we hunted down and fixed various bugs.

Save costs by stopping your clusters when they're idle! We have launched a “Cluster schedule” functionality to pause and resume clusters based on the user-defined schedule. Find this feature in your cluster dashboard or check the documentation.

The node autoscaler policy now supports GCP Preemptive Instances.

We introduced additional validations in GCP credentials onboarding.

As always our team took care of bug fixes, performance optimizations, and small UI improvements.

Launched an agent to connect the EKS cluster (that was not created by CAST AI) to our console. Users can now connect clusters in read-only mode and use the “Savings” feature to analyze proposed optimizations and their impact on the cloud bill.

Revamped dashboard UI.

Node interruptions made visible in the logs data via Audit log UI.

Canada East (Montréal) is now a supported region in our cluster creation flow.

Fixed minor bugs.

We have simplified the user credentials creation process for GCP.

You can now control your clusters using our own Command Line Interface (CLI). Read more about the beta version and install it!

Improved handling of Kubernetes nodes and load balancers, so the status of the nodes is tracked, and load balancers are removed when appropriate.

Improved Unschedulable Pods policy to peak in to the future and consider nodes that are being created.

Improved structure of our documentation; check it at docs.cast.ai.

Updated UI elements in our console and, as always, our team shipped some bug-fixes.

Launched the status page so our customers can check the health of our platform.