Keptn 0.21: Application Lifecycle Management Evolution

Introduction

Keptn 0.21, released on November 10, 2024, advances application lifecycle management with improved lifecycle management, enhanced observability, better performance, and expanded integration capabilities. This release makes Keptn more powerful for managing application lifecycles.

Lifecycle Management

• Deployment improvements enable better deployment management.
• Release management enhancements provide better release management.
• Rollback capabilities enable automatic rollback on failures.
• Health checking improvements provide better visibility into application health.

Observability Enhancements

1. Metrics expansion provides detailed metrics for application performance.
2. Logging improvements enable better visibility into application logs.
3. Tracing support enables distributed tracing for applications.
4. Dashboard integration provides visualization of application metrics.

Performance Optimizations

• Execution time reductions minimize time for lifecycle operations.
• Resource usage optimizations reduce CPU and memory consumption.
• Scaling improvements enable better handling of multiple applications.
• Caching improvements provide better response times.

Integration Capabilities

• Kubernetes integration improvements provide seamless integration with Kubernetes.
• CI/CD integration enables integration with CI/CD pipelines.
• Observability integration provides integration with observability tools.
• API improvements enable better programmatic access to Keptn capabilities.

Getting Started

# Install Keptn
helm repo add keptn https://charts.keptn.sh
helm install keptn keptn/keptn -n keptn --create-namespace

Summary

Keptn 0.21 continues to evolve as a leading application lifecycle management platform, providing teams with powerful capabilities for managing application lifecycles.