Changelog

Follow new updates and improvements to LocalOps.

January 27th, 2025

When we provision app environment, we provision a Grafana dashboard specific to the app environment, accessible at monitor.<your-app-env-domain>. You can access metrics and logs of all nodes, pods and containers running within the app environment’s kubernetes cluster.

If you are running your app environment in AWS, you will also see a pre-configured CloudWatch data source in the corresponding Grafana dashboard. You can access logs and metrics that are stored in CloudWatch.

This is super useful if your application is using managed AWS services that are sending metrics/logs to CloudWatch.

Go to “Monitor” tab in your app environment to access the Grafana dashboard. Within Grafana, see Connections > Data sources to see the Cloudwatch data source. Click on “Explore” next to it to see CloudWatch logs and metrics.

Let us know what you think. Email us at help@localops.co.

January 24th, 2025

Every app environment comes with its own unique instance of Loki + Prometheus + Grafana stack. From now, all logs and metrics recorded by the monitoring stack have 30-day retention policy. Any log statement/metric data point is automatically deleted after 30 days.

This significantly reduces the risk of unintentional data leaks when developers print sensitive information on logs by accident.

January 23rd, 2025

Your app container running inside App environment can now access any AWS service using IAM roles. You don’t have to configure any IAM key/credential as secrets in your application.

LocalOps sets up a default IAM role when your app environment is provisioned in the target AWS account. We set things up in your app environment such that your application will be able to use this IAM role implicitly via AWS SDK, if you declare the `ServiceAccount` in your Helm deployment yaml spec as per our documentation.

After the app environment is provisioned, you can manually add/remove relevant IAM policies to the app specific IAM role we provisioned earlier.

Read our documentation to learn more.

January 14th, 2025

You can now scale up/down the underlying servers powering your app environment, manually from within LocalOps console.

Visit “Scaling” tab in your App environment page to pick a supported Node type (EC2 instance type in case of AWS) and save. Existing worker nodes will be seamlessly replaced by new set of worker nodes.

You can also set a higher number of Node count. New worker nodes wll get provisioned automatically within a minute or two.

Read the announcement here: https://localops.co/blog/scale-app-environments

December 17th, 2024

Improved

Checkout the new search functionality in LocalOps Developer docs.

You click on search bar in the top right corner or press CMD+K to then search for any term and it will take you to the correct topic page instantly. It will even remember your past searches if you search within the same browser next time.

See https://docs.localops.co now.

December 1st, 2024

New

Pass API keys, certificates, auth token and other confidential information to your app environment as secrets from within Vars tab. All secrets are encrypted and stored in the destination/target cloud account and later get passed inside the Kubernetes cluster as encrypted secrets.

Pass up to 100 key value pairs as secrets. Learn more at https://localops.co/blog/manage-application-secrets.

Docs: https://docs.localops.co/bring-your-app/secrets.

October 22nd, 2024

Developers can now set environment variables in the brand new Yaml editor:

October 16th, 2024

We no longer accept IAM access keys to connect to AWS accounts.

We have shipped a new secure 1-click setup process to connect to AWS accounts using IAM roles and OIDC protocol. This ensures that all access is done using short term keys created and destroyed by AWS.

AWS accounts can be connected using 1-click from Connections tab. Learn more at https://docs.localops.co/connecting-cloud/aws

September 3rd, 2024

Users can now Sign up or Sign In to LocalOps with 1-click, using a Github or Google account. Checkout https://console.localops.co/

August 28th, 2024

When you create a new App environment or make a new Deployment on an existing environment, you will get a warning like this:

And we are now fully integrated with Stripe to collect recurring payments. Go ahead and subscribe from your Billing section inside Account settings ✌️.