Changelog
NEW UPDATES AND IMPROVEMENTS TO MICROTICA
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🔑 The Medusa template now includes Backend + Admin
Apr 28, 2023
We are delighted to announce that our existing Medusa Server (backend) template now includes the Admin dashboard, as supported by Medusa 🚀
With this new addition, our users can now take advantage of both the Medusa Backend and Medusa Admin, which together provide a complete e-commerce solution. Medusa Backend is a powerful server that handles all of the critical backend operations, while Medusa Admin provides an intuitive and user-friendly interface for managing and configuring the storefront.
At Microtica, we're dedicated to providing our users with the best possible experience. That's why we're constantly working on enhancing our platform and templates. We believe that this new addition to our Medusa template will significantly benefit our users and help them build robust and scalable e-commerce applications with ease.
🔍 Announcing the improved pipeline logs
Apr 23, 2023
We are excited to announce a significant improvement to our logs feature at Microtica! 🚀
Our enhanced logs feature now provides a clear distinction between successful and error logs, making it easier for you to quickly identify and troubleshoot issues. We have also improved the organization of logs by showing steps in a more structured and easy-to-read format.
We hope that you find our new logs improvements useful and would love to hear your feedback. Please share your thoughts with us, and let us know how we can further enhance your experience with Microtica.
🗂️ n8n template with a default MySQL database
Apr 19, 2023
We are excited to announce that Microtica now automatically includes MySQL as the default database for our n8n template! 🚀 With this new addition, our users can now benefit from MySQL's excellent performance, reliability, and scalability without having to manually set up a database. By adding this option to our n8n template, we're giving our users more flexibility and choice to optimize their workflows and enhance their productivity.
📣 NextJS Template upgrade to v13
Apr 7, 2023 We are pleased to announce that Microtica has upgraded our Next.js template from version 12 to version 13, which is a major release! 🚀 With this upgrade, our users can take advantage of the latest features and improvements offered by Next.js. Version 13 introduces significant enhancements to performance, SEO, and accessibility, making it an excellent choice for building modern web applications.
We're excited to see what our users can achieve with the upgraded Next.js template, and we're looking forward to hearing your feedback.
📢 Assign a custom domain for API-based components
Mar 20, 2023
We've extended our custom domain feature to API-based components and resources in the platform. This specifically affects the Lambda (Golang) template.
🪲 Improvements and fixes
Mar 13, 2023
- You’re now able to get the logs for a specific container inside a Kubernetes pod.
- Add property MIC_CONTAINER_PORT in the Environment Variables section (App Settings tab).
- Fixed a bug where the schema defaults were not pre-set when the resource was added to an environment.
📢 Introducing Appwrite production-ready template
Feb 27, 2023
You can now deploy a production-ready Appwrite backend server on your AWS account following 3 simple steps.
The Appwrite template includes the following components that will be created in your environment:
- VPC — VPC, subnets, and networking
- EKS Cluster - Container infrastructure based on Kubernetes, application load balancer, and persistent storage
- Appwrite application - the actual application server that will be deployed on your AWS account
You can find the documentation for the Appwrite template here.
Happy deploying! 🚀
⚡ Google Signup
Feb 23, 2023
Microtica now supports easy signup and sign-in with Google. This update was inspired by our growing user base that uses a Google-based private or company account. Additionally to a quick signup/sign-in with GitHub, you can now quickly authenticate with Google.
🪲 Improvements and fixes
Feb 20, 2023
- A new and improved template flow on the dedicated template page. You can preview the steps you have to perform to deploy the template on the cloud in a progress indicator on the left. We've added focus on the step in hand on the right.
- Upgraded the AWS EKS template to Kubernetes version 1.24.
- Made improvements to the Deployment status tags in the Deployments page and the Deployments tab to avoid inconsistencies.
⚡ Optimized deployment pipelines 💨
Feb 15, 2023
We've been working on optimizing the integrated CI/CD pipelines, and are proud to share that our newest release offers faster builds and deployments by 60%. You can deliver product versions faster than ever!
⚡ Assign a custom domain on Applications and Resources
Jan 13, 2023
With this update we are dramatically simplifying the custom domain setup for your applications and cloud resources.
To assign a custom domain just go to your application or resource details and click on Assign domain button and then just follow the few simple steps.
For detailed instructions follow the Assign a Custom Domain docs.
⚡ Pipeline builds for your applications
Dec 2, 2022
We are integrating application pipeline build and deployment executions in the Application Pipeline section.
Now you will be able to navigate through pipeline execution history and go to a specific execution to see the logs and debug any potential issues with the application build or deployment process.
Happy deploying! 🚀
⚡ Resource Logs - follow your application logs directly from Microtica Portal
Nov 18, 2022
Up until now when you had to debug an application deployed on AWS Fargate (Strapi, Medusa etc.) you had to login into AWS console and follow the logs from there.
This was a big pain point for our customers so today we are happy to announce that we are releasing the integrated resource logs into our portal. With this change you no longer have to login into AWS console to debug your apps.
Happy debugging! 🪲
📢 Introducing Medusa Server Template
Nov 11, 2022
You can now deploy a production-ready Medusa Server on your AWS account in a few simple steps.
The template includes managed Postgres and Redis instances for high availability and scalability. Alternatively, for those who want a cheaper solution for development, the template offers a "development" mode that works with SQLite and "fake" Redis instance.
The solution can be fully integrated with your existing Medusa Admin and Medusa Storefront.
In the upcoming months we plan to release a bundle of all three Medusa components as one solution.
Happy deploying! 🚀
🪲 Improvements and fixes
Nov 4, 2022
- Improved navigation across the whole application with more accessible contextual actions
- Application monitoring and logs are now the default view in application details
- Improved the app list by providing more visibility of running, pending and failed pods
📢 Introducing Template Executions
Oct 14, 2022
You can now follow template deployment executions in real-time even if you leave the template page. On this page you can follow the status as well as debug any potential errors during deployment.
Happy deploying! 🚀
🪲 Improvements and fixes
Oct 14, 2022
- Show commit details next to each resource and app
- Improve creating new EKS cluster flow when deploying app
- Show Kubernetes pod events for apps before the app logs become available
- Added welcome page for better user onboarding
⚡ Track your plan usage in real-time
Oct 7, 2022
With this update, you can now track your environment, application and build minutes usage for a project in real-time.
You can find the usage statistics under Project Settings -> Plan usage.
⚡ Deployment summary - review the configuration before deploying an App
Sep 30, 2022
Now when deploying an app from a template, you will see a summary of the steps that will take in place. Here you can review the Git configuration, the environment in which the app will be deployed and on which cluster/AWS account the resources will be provisioned.
Happy deploying! 🚀
🪲 Improvements and fixes
Sep 29, 2022
- Fixed user with read-only access was not able to see the active pipeline builds
- Improve "Choose where to deploy" template step with better cluster selection logic
- After app deployment from template, navigate users to the app being deployed instead of apps list
📢 Introducing Framework Detection: deploy your apps much faster
Sep 23, 2022
You no longer have to have a Dockerfile file present in your repository to be able to deploy your existing applications. We now auto-detect your app framework and set a default configuration for building, packaging and deploying your app.
We automatically create .microtica folder in your repo with pre-configured deployment spec so you don't have to do it manually.
Since the whole setup is anyway stored in your Git repository, you can always change the default configuration directly in the code.
⚡ Save massive a amount of time finding and fixing your failed deployments
Sep 16, 2022
We as developers usually don't really pay attention when deployments go smoothly until something goes wrong. In these cases we have to go deeper and analyse where the problem occur and understand the root cause so we can quickly resolve it.
With Deployments we are addressing this need to quickly and reliable understand what's going on with your current and past deployments.
You can go to individual deployment to analyse the logs and what has changed compared to the previous successful deployment.
From here you can analyse the exact code and configuration changes and quickly spot the potential issue that's causing the deployment to fail.
🪲 Improvements and fixes
Sep 13, 2022
- When removing an AWS account, we now unlink the AWS account from the environments
- Fixed template execution logs not appear if execution failed
- Added a possibility to create additional cluster in templates page
- Fixed users unable to create new repo if the Git account has no other repos
- Removed 'Cancel Plan' button in Billing for FREE plan projects
- Add quick navigation button to logs in app overview page
⚡ Automated validation of your Git webhooks permissions immediately in the first template step
Sep 9, 2022
When deploying apps using templates, Microtica adds a Webhook to your repository for continuous build and deploy. Since each Git provider requires a specific minimum role to create a webhook, we are now making it immediately visible when the user has no sufficient rights to create a webhook.
To solve this problem, usually, you have to contact your administrator to increase your access rights.
⚡ Create Kubernetes cluster without leaving the app deployment steps
Sep 2, 2022
When deploying an app but you still don't have a Kubernetes cluster, instead of moving to a different page to create the cluster and then go back to the app, you can now provision a new cluster without leaving the app deployment page.
⚡ Connect your AWS account with one click
Aug 26, 2022
We are introducing a big improvement when connecting your AWS account by reducing the process to just one click.
Now with just one click we initiate the CloudFormation stack that gives Microtica permissions to provision infrastructure on your AWS account.
📢 Introducing AWS CodeCommit integration
Aug 19, 2022
If you version your source code on CodeCommit, you can now connect the repo and get fully automate deployments directly from the Microtica portal.
Happy deploying! 🚀
