Recent Updates

• 2025.09.03.1

  SAN (Beta), Faster Migrations, Smarter Deployments, and More

  We’re excited to introduce Storage Area Network (SAN) support (beta), making it easier to store large amounts of data reliably for both containers and virtual machines. This update also brings more flexible IP pool options, much faster migration speeds (up to 80% quicker), and smarter deployment strategies for edge, distribution, and HA setups. On top of that, we’ve fixed issues with instance migration and public IP filtering to make your environments more stable and dependable.

  • added

    SAN Support (BETA)

    Servers, deployed via Virtual Providers, can now utilize SANs enabling large, persistent, data storage for both containers and virtual machines.

  • improvement

    Discovery Via TCP

    The discovery service will now default to TCP resolution when resolving external DNS domains, enabling larger DNS payloads.

  • improvement

    Distribution, Edge, and HA Deployment Strategies

    These orchestrators have been completely rebuilt to better account for existing instances, yielding a more calculated deployment of new instances.

  • fixed

    Instance Migration Race Condition

    When moving a stateful container that utilizes a large (>1GB) volume across cloud providers, a timeout could occur which would trigger another migration attempt before the first was complete.

  • improvement

    LACP Bonds on Virtual Provider

    The previous way we handled LACP negotiation didn't work for all NIC vendors, our new process supports a much larger range of NICs, if not all.

  • improvement

    Migration Speed

    We've increased the block size for streaming migrations, decreasing the time for migrations by as much as 80% -- depending on link speed.

  • added

    IP Pool Options

    Self-managed IP pools, added via Virtual Providers, can now be customized further to enable features like ARP proxying.

  • fixed

    Public IP Filtering

    The traffic rule introduced to prevent two publicly accessible containers that existed within different environments from communicating was overly strict and, in rare cases, for single-node setups, blocked traffic that should have been valid. This has been fixed.

• 2025.07.24.1

  IPv6 Support for Virtual Providers, Serial Console Access, and a SDN API Change

  This update enhances platform flexibility with IPv6 support for Virtual Providers and improves overall system stability with critical fixes. It also refines API behavior to align with broader update patterns for a more consistent experience.

  • improvement

    Dual Stack Virtual Providers

    Added the ability to configure IPv6 for virtual provider servers via the portal / API.

  • fixed

    Environment Service Updates

    Previously, automatic updates could occasionally break the ability to SSH into a service container.

  • changed

    SDN L2 API

    The updating of an L2 configuration has been moved from a PATCH to a reconfiguration job task to align with how other update calls are implemented in the API. This is a breaking change, but the base functionality was introduced in the last build.

  • fixed

    Cycle Kernel with UEFI Console

    A recent kernel build broke console output on some bare metal models, that is now fixed.

• 2025.07.15.1

  Incremental Improvements to VM Provisioning, Deployments, and Networking

  This incremental release brings improvements and fixes to virtual machine provisioning, container deployments, and networking.

  • fixed

    Volume Provision for VMs

    A race condition existed where an empty base disk could've been mounted as a cd-rom during VM provisioning, this has been fixed.

  • changed

    Container Deployment Strategy Updates

    The platform now allows for a container's deployment strategy to be changed after creation IF it was never specified

  • improvement

    Firewall NAT Rule

    We've changed the rule that prevented egress containers from talking to each other over their NAT IP. Previously, this blocked any egress traffic to any 10.x address, but now we're specifically only limiting traffic from 10.10.x.x to another 10.10.x.x (NAT egress).

  • improvement

    Traffic Drain Notifications

    We now push traffic drain notifications down the internal api's notification pipeline, enabling containers to listen for drain events for other containers.

  • added

    Per-Deployment Stack Variables

    Via the 'Deploy Stack' step within pipelines, users can now define variables that will override a stack's build-time variables at the time of deployment. This is beneficial for teams looking to deploy a single stack to multiple environments, but with unique variables per environment.

  • added

    Bare Metal H100 + A100 @ Vultr

    The platform now supports provisioning of A100/H100 bare metal at Vultr.

  • fixed

    Container Deprecate Restart

    Previously, marking a container as deprecated would cause the container to restart. This issue has been resolved.

• 2025.06.25.1

  ALIAS DNS Support and New Internal API IP Metas

  This release brings additional metadata functionality to internal API and expands DNS capabilities with ALIAS record support. We've also fixed an edge case in load balancer configurations applied through stacks where submitting a null config could cause issues.

  • added

    Internal API / SDN IPs

    The internal API now supports ?meta=sdn_pool_ips for containers that belong to SDN networks which utilize their own IP pools.

  • added

    Support for ALIAS DNS Records

    ALIAS records, which are similar to CNAMEs but utilized for zone origins, are now supported.

  • fixed

    Load Balancer Config within Stacks

    If a stack specified a load balancer service but omitted a config, the load balancer's config would be reset on each subsequent deployment. Now, an empty config will no longer reset a previously deployed load balancer.

• 2025.06.09.2

  Better IP Handling, More SDN Envs, LB Fixes

  This release features a set of improvements, fixes, and additions focused on smarter IP handling, easier network scaling, and more reliable load balancer behavior. These changes continue our march toward simplifying operations on the platform while we work toward more monitoring and observability changes in the coming month.

  • improvement

    SDN IP Migrate

    Container instances that are deployed to virtual provider servers now retain their SDN static pool'd IPs as long as the migration is within the same region.

  • improvement

    SDN L3 Max Environment Increase

    The maximum number of environments that can be added to a layer 3 SDN network has been raised to 15.

  • improvement

    Allowed Metrics Increased

    Each tier of monitoring now has an increased number of total metrics included in the tier package.

  • fixed

    Ability to Initialize LB without IPs

    There was a bug that would cause load balancers on virtual provider nodes to not properly initialize when started without IP's. This issue has been resolved. This is valuable for users setting up environments which will exist exclusively on private networks, or behind a Cloudflare Tunnel.

  • fixed

    Raw Stack Patch

    There was an issue with patching raw stacks via API where the platform would not properly handle variables defined in the stack. This issue has been resolved.

  • added

    Load Balancer Micro Cache

    A 5 second cache has been added to the load balancer that retains information used to decide destination prioritization, greatly reducing the overall pressure on the load balancer during times of increased traffic.

  • improvement

    Image Source Delete

    Image sources with images that are not being used by any container can now be deleted without first needing to delete every image from the source.

• 2025.06.03.4

  Faster VMs, Smarter Scaling, and New Tools

  In this update, users will see double the write speed performance on all virtual machines and can now utilize a VNC connection for VM interaction! We're also proud to announce that auto-scaling has moved out of beta and now supports a custom webhook for even more granular controls. The portal was improved with new charts, better container logs, and better storage visibility.

  • improvement

    Faster VM Writes

    We’ve made major improvements to VM storage performance resulting in a doubling of write speeds.

  • fixed

    VPN Access to VMs

    Fixed an issue where VMs weren’t reachable over the VPN. They now route correctly.

  • improvement

    Auto-Scaling Out of Beta

    Auto-scaling has been stable for a while and we've recently made major improvements to performance, reliability, and responsiveness. The beta tag has been removed.

  • added

    Custom Webhooks for Auto-Scaling

    You can now trigger custom webhooks when scale events occur, giving users full control over scaling logic.

  • added

    VNC for VMs

    Virtual machines can now utilize a VNC connection for enhanced interaction.

  • added

    Compute Storage Summary

    Added a detailed storage breakdown on the server view. Useful for debugging disk issues and tracking down container file sprawl.

  • changed

    Log Drain Moved

    Log drain config is now applied at the environment level instead of per container.

  • improvement

    Improved Container Logs

    Logs now show up with syntax highlighting and color-coded formatting, making them easier to read at a glance.

  • improvement

    DNS Lookups Chart

    The DNS lookups chart will now show deeper information on cached and throttled hits including success, fail, and not found data points.