Product Updates

March 2023

New features

  • New registration web user interface: we have simplified the registration process to make Taikun easily accessible for our users. With just one-minute sign-up, you can start your Cloud journey hassle-free and enjoy all the benefits Taikun offers.
  • New subscription web user interface: with an emphasis on increased security, we have released a new secure internal user interface for selecting a Taikun subscription and managing your billing and payments.

Updated

  • We have rebranded our company to Taikun.cloud a.s.
  • Several updates in the “Demo” mode of Takun to ensure a smooth demo experience
  • You can now select an Organization during the creation of Tickets
  • Updated use-case information messages
  • Interactive Docs link now available in all sections of the navigation panel

Fixed

  • Fixed extra validations in dialog inputs

February 2023

New features

  • Import Private Repository: import any private repo containing your applications
  • Demo Mode: leverage the Demo mode of Taikun to see how it can manage Cloud resources
  • Addition to Application parameters: change parameters of Applications when installing or editing them

Updated

  • Several updates of Autoscaler to the logic of editing parameters
  • Introduced updates to improve the security and stability of the Keycloak login mechanism 
  • Improved validation mechanism when inputting data to Taikun
  • Updated version of the documentation

Fixed

  • Fixed application parameters filtering
  • Improved mechanism for binding Images and Flavors
  • Fixed Ticketing options for various roles 
  • Fixes of visibility for the User role when viewing an Organization’s resources

December 2022

New features

  • Autoscaling: Automaticaly scale up and down your cluster based on load. Works great with Taikun Apps
  • New user interface: Updated redesigned user interface for a unique user-friendly experience and ease of all your Taikun operations
  • Cloud costs: Monitor your infrastructure costs in real time for your current project on an advanced section designed specifically for your cloud costs
  • Multi availability zones: Support for multi availability zone project on AWS, Azure and Google cloud credentials.

Updated

  • Create admin cloud credentials in OpenStack and automatically use these admin cloud credentials when creating an organization to create a project in Openstack
  • Documentation about Google Cloud Credentials and Application part in Taikun
  • New company website under www.taikun.cloud

Fixed

  • Fixes in UI validations
  • Fixes in backup and restore procedures
  • Fixes in catalogs and applications

May 2022

New features

Spot Virtual Machines for AWS and Azure

Taikun now supports by-request VMs known as Spot Instances, in which you can take advantage of unused capacity from cloud providers deploying virtual servers with a significantly lower-price than regular VMs.

Read more about Spot VMs on AWS and Azure.

These options are available for:

Add Project Page
  • Enable Spot
    • Allow Spot VM’s
      • Allow Full Spot Kubernetes
      • Allow Spot Workers

If “Allow Spot VM’s” is enabled, you can define the Maximum Spot Price.

Servers Page – K8s view
  • Enable Spot Worker
  • Enable Full Spot
  • Disable Full Spot
Servers Page – VMs view
  • Enable Spot VMs

Updated

Redesign of the Images page

Images are divided to the following three tabs

  • Quickstart Images
  • My Images
  • Public Images

Fixed

Also few minor changes and bug fixes in UI.

February 2022

New features

Standalone VMs Server Page
  • here you can see all created VMs for the project
  • you can add VM for a project stored in any cloud (OpenStack, AWS and Azure)
  • before you add new VM, keep in mind you have to bind the Image and create Standalone Profile first
Images
  • bind or unbind images from project
  • you can only bind images from the provider where your project is stored
  • without bound image you cannot add a new VM
Standalone Profile
  • create profile for your VM with SSH key, add Security Groups
  • you can define Security Groups – protocols ICMP, TCP and UDP are supported
  • it is not possible to add profile to VM later, once the profile is created SSH key cannot be edited
  • you cannot add a new VM without any standalone profile
Standalone VMs
  • see the overview of all standalone VMs

Updated

Project Page
  • in new column View you can choose if you want to see detailed K8s or VMs page

Fixed

Also few minor changes and bug fixes in UI – e.g. improved status colours contrast.