What's New at Edka

Run worker pools on Hetzner Metal servers, alongside a season of new capabilities across networking, cluster explorer, apps, agent runtimes, and security improvements.

• Metal server pools backed by Hetzner Robot dedicated servers, with vSwitch private networking.
• NAT gateways with stable egress IPs, health monitoring, and conntrack metrics.
• Cluster Explorer for fast debugging and visibility.
• Automatic cluster drift detection and classification with guided, safe repair workflows.
• Redesigned Apps with schema driven metrics, and an expanded catalog: ClickHouse, Plausible, Umami, Metabase, Strapi, Typesense, Meilisearch, n8n, Excalidraw and more.
• Operate AI agents on your own clusters, with multiple profiles, webhooks, state backups, and private networking using Tailscale and Cloudflare Zero Trust.
• Step up passkey verification for dangerous operations, plus hardened sessions and tenant isolation.
• Self hosted GitHub Actions runners with scale sets.
• Dedicated node observability with per node metrics and automatic host alert rules.
• Kubernetes API endpoint failover for highly available control planes.
• Longhorn distributed storage add-on, CronJob adoption, organization slugs, and multi organization management.
• Docs: Metal Server Pools

Receive notifications and alerts for your entire organization across all clusters and resources.

• Global notifications for all resources in your organization in real time.
• Customizable alerts based on metrics and events.
• Preconfigured alert packs, like cluster status, databases, storage, and more.
• Maintenance windows and silencing for alerts, channels, and clusters.
• Customizable notification channels for email, Slack, and webhooks.
• Cloudflare Zero Trust tunnel integration for private network access.
• MetalLB load balancer integration.
• Docs: Observability

Back up and restore your clusters with your own encryption key, manage advanced database configuration, track provisioned hardware across your account, and run queues for your applications.

• Encrypted automatic cluster backups with stateful and stateless recovery.
• Dedicated section for databases with advanced configuration, pooling, PITR, insights and more.
• Dedicated section for queues with support for NATS.
• Inventory tracking and historical usage insights.
• Various improvements and bug fixes.
• Docs: Cluster Backups

Secure traffic and access your applications privately from anywhere with Tailscale.

• Direct integration with Envoy Gateway.
• Use custom domains or Tailscale DNS names for your applications.
• Access your applications from anywhere privately.
• Cluster wide secrets overview.
• Improved domain management and TLS configuration.
• In app change log and multiple minor UI tweaks.
• Overall performance improvements and bug fixes.
• Docs: Tailscale Tailnet Exposure

Manage your applications and deployments traffic with Envoy Gateway.

• Use Envoy Proxy as an API Gateway to manage your traffic.
• Integrate with Domains and expose your applications publicly, privately, or via Tailscale.
• Real time traffic stats.
• Docs: Gateway API

A major release with multiple improvements across the entire platform.

• A more reliable cluster provisioner written in Go.
• Support large clusters with node pools up to 500 nodes.
• Secrets encryption at rest.
• Support for encrypted volumes.
• Inside cluster container image registry powered by Zot.
• IP restrictions for SSH and Kubernetes API access.
• A new UI with more consistent design and navigation.
• Support for CronJobs.
• Persistent cluster events and diagnostics.
• Improved user permissions and access control.
• Organizations support and improved team management.
• Improved GitOps dashboard.
• Support for more operating systems.
• Support for the latest Kubernetes version 1.35.1
• Passkey support and login history audit logs.

Branch deployments from GitHub, automatic PR preview environments, and a simple wildcard domain management. If you're familiar with Vercel, Netlify or Cloudflare Pages, this is very similar but on your own Kubernetes cluster.

• GitHub integration: Connect your GitHub repository to Edka and start deploying from any branch.
• Zero config CI based on railpack
• Integration with your cluster registries
• PR previews: Spin up short lived PR previews directly integrated with your GitHub repository.
• Domains and wildcard TLS: Register wildcard domains once, delegate DNS, and let Edka issue and renew certificates.

MySQL on Edka now runs on the upstream MOCO operator

• MySQL 8.4.X and 8.0.X with automated clustering, failover and backups to S3/GCS
• Binlog retention for Point in Time Recovery

Deploy complex applications with ease.

• Deploy a high availability PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, or Redis cluster with a few clicks
• Deploy your own applications with autoscaling, auto updates and instant rollback

Support for GitOps integration with GitHub (GitLab coming soon). New add-ons and integrations.

• Automated GitOps workflows
• GitHub integration
• Registry integration
• New add-ons
• StartMeUp template
• Improve performance

Improve dark mode, add new add-ons, and enhance overall performance.

• Add new dark mode
• Improve performance

Various bug fixes and performance improvements.

• Use Vault to store secrets
• Add first add-ons

Internal testing and feedback.