Keptn 0.12: Cloud-Native Application Lifecycle

Introduction

Keptn 0.12 — Cloud-Native Application Lifecycle — was released on October 12, 2021.

GitOps and platform tooling pay off (or fall apart) when you scale to many apps, many environments, and many clusters.

In this release: Keptn 0.12 enhances application lifecycle management with improved automation, better observability, and enhanced GitOps integration for cloud-native applications.

Automation Enhancements

• Deployment automation improvements simplify automated deployment workflows.
• Quality gates enhancements enable automated quality checks during deployments.
• Rollback improvements provide automatic rollback on quality gate failures.
• Scheduling support enables time-based deployment automation.

Observability Integration

1. Metrics integration improvements provide better correlation of deployment and application metrics.
2. Tracing enhancements enable end-to-end tracing of deployment workflows.
3. Logging improvements provide centralized logging for lifecycle events.
4. Dashboard support provides visualization of application lifecycle and health.

GitOps Integration

• Git integration improvements enable better synchronization with Git repositories.
• Configuration management enhancements simplify managing application configurations.
• Version control support enables tracking of configuration changes.
• Collaboration improvements enable better team collaboration on configurations.

Operational Features

• Multi-stage deployments enable complex deployment pipelines.
• Environment management simplifies managing multiple deployment environments.
• Resource management improvements enable better resource allocation.
• Documentation expansion includes comprehensive guides for common scenarios.

Getting Started

curl -sL https://get.keptn.sh | bash
keptn install

Summary

Keptn 0.12 continues to evolve as a platform for cloud-native application lifecycle management, providing teams with tools to automate and observe application deployments.