Containerized private minion (CPM) release notesRSS

Improvements

• Clean up deprecated code

New features

• For the Kubernetes CPM option, users can now apply an Apparmor profile to the Synthetics Minion and Runner containers.

Improvements

• For the Kubernetes CPM option, updated Synthetics Runner pod resource limit-request ratio to be less than or equal to 2 for Browser and Scripted monitor checks.

Improvements

• Minor logging improvements

Fixes

• Fixed Synthetics Job timeout error logging to return "ScriptTimeoutError" instead of "Unknown Error".

Improvements

• Minor logging improvements

New Features

Introducing a CPM for the Kubernetes environment!

The CPM now offers additional features and value:

• Auto-detects between a Kubernetes environment and a Docker environment
• Integrates with the Kubernetes API to delegate Runtime lifecycle management to Kubernetes
• Does not require privileged access to the docker socket
• Supports hosted and on-premise Kubernetes clusters
• Supports various container engines such as Docker and Containerd
• Deployable via Helm charts as well as configuration yamls

Features

• Users now have granular control over the minion's concurrency level via the MINION_HEAVY_WORKERS and MINION_LIGHTWEIGHT_WORKERS environment variables. See CPM documentation for further info

Features

• Adds support for the WebSocket Node.js library in scripted synthetic monitors

Improvements

• Updated LICENSE manifest file to reflect OSS attribution