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0.4.0 - 2025-04-18​

  • Upgraded Harmonix on AWS to the latest Backstage version (1.38) and new backend system.
  • Upgraded the GitLab Community Edition version to 17.10.3
  • Upgraded Infrastructure as Code dependency versions
  • Updated Serverless application template Node runtime from 18 to 22
  • Upgrade EKS Kubernetes cluster version from 1.31 to 1.32
  • Upgraded PostgreSQL version for the RDS resource type and the platform installation to VER_16_6
  • Installation of 3rd party plugins is now done using the new backend system for Backstage. The versions of 3rd party plugins have been updated to the lateest.
  • Added mise.toml file to make it easier to build Harmonix using tested tool versions. See the mise website for installation instructions
  • Running Backstage locally is easier than ever. See our documentation on running locally for more details.
  • All Harmonix front end pages are now exported so that they can be referenced and extended
  • Harmonix installation should be run using Yarn 4 since Backstage has moved to using Yarn 4
  • Added configurations and Make targets for compiling and testing Harmonix plugins
  • Updated scaffolding actions
    • Add support for dry runs
    • Use new createTemplateAction function format now that the old one is deprecated in the latest Backstage scaffolder plugin.
    • Scaffolding action names have changed, and the software templates have been updated to use the new names
      • Summary: change "opa:" to "harmonix:". For example, the opa:get-component-info scaffolder action is now called harmonix:get-component-info
  • Software templates no longer utilize @roadiehq/scaffolder-backend-module-utils
  • Harmonix plugin names have not changed, but the directory names under backstage-plugins/plugins that hold the source code of the plugins have changed:
    • aws-apps -> harmomix-frontend
    • aws-apps-backend -> harmonix-backend
    • aws-apps-common -> harmonix-common
    • catalog-backend-module-aws-apps-entities-processor -> catalog-backend-module-harmonix
    • scaffolder-backend-module-aws-apps -> scaffolder-backend-module-harmonix
  • Front end home page customizations and theming that used to be located in the @aws/plugin-aws-apps-demo-for-backstage package have been moved into harmonix-frontend.

0.3.4 - 2024-08-23​

  • Upgraded Harmonix on AWS to the latest Backstage version and new backend system. 1.29.0
  • New custom entity processor plugin - compatible with the new backend backstage system. details here
  • Updated Gitlab version 17.2.2
  • Support for Github and Multi-Git provider
  • New template examples - including Terraform ECS cluster
  • New SecretsManager shared resource template
  • New entity Schema updates - gitProvider, componentState, component spec subType details here
  • General package version updates
  • Bug fix

0.3.3 - 2024-02-26​

New Features​

  • Amazon ECS using EC2 nodes sample added to reference template
  • Add check for cdk bootstrap during environment provider provisioning to avoid manual pre-req
  • GenAI runtime environment provider template
  • GenAI RAG application template

Bug Fixes​

  • Ensure Terraform state bucket name uniqueness
  • Hard-coded region in EKS provider
  • code hygiene

Documentation​

  • Security and Permissions updates
  • Kubernetes runtime and template docs
  • Contribution guidance
  • Architecture description and diagram improvements
  • General fixes to typos and clarifications
  • GenAI runtime and template docs

0.3.2 - 2024-01-29​

Fixed​

  • fixes reference repository pipelines to correct build issues
  • fixes installation doc image referencing GitLab 16.8.1 in the AWS Marketplace

0.3.1 - 2024-01-24​

Fixed​

  • Backstage plugin version identifiers required for 0.3.0 release
  • introduces a workaround for GitLab 16.8 error when creating new user
  • introduces a workaround for an image build error due to upgraded "swagger-ui-react" module

0.3.0 - 2024-01-23​

New Features​

  • Support for Kubernetes:
    • Add Amazon EKS provider
    • Import existing Amazon EKS clusters
    • Add Amazon EKS Application for K8s Kustomize pattern
    • Add Amazon EKS Application for K8s Helm pattern
    • Add CI/CD patterns for K8s applications
    • New UI Page for K8s with control panel to operate the application
  • S3 Bucket as a shared resource
  • Reuse existing VPC when creating providers(Import existing VPC)
  • Amazon ECS provider with EC2 clusters for tailored workloads
  • Updated Backstage platform to v1.21
  • Support filter relevant environments for new apps

New Documentation​

  • Security documentation
  • Test cases
  • Add a basic provider template - example for starting your own provider templates.

Refactor​

  • Remove hyphenated names from entities
  • Adding support for component subType for easy identification of internal AWS component classification

Bug Fixes​

  • Delete provider - case name issue
  • Delete app - case name issue
  • Delete resource - remove secret deletion + adjusted stack name mapping
  • Remove provider from an environment after creation

0.2.0 - 2023-09-26​

New Features​

  • Environment and Environment provider entity types
  • Multi-account and multi-region support
  • Environment and Environment provider provisioning from Backstage
  • GitLab pipelines for CI/CD to build and deploy applications
  • Dynamic pipelines for new environment deployments
  • Environment addition at application level
  • Introduce environment hierarchy/level and require approval options for AWS Environment
  • Application auditing per environment
  • Environment selector drop down - Contextual environment switching for applications
  • Resource template for RDS
  • Resource Binding to applications
  • AWS-Resource Backstage Page
  • App Pending page - while pipeline is still provisioning the app/resource
  • Java SpringBoot template
  • Delete App & Delete Provider capabilities
  • Serverless and ECS environment provider examples
  • Permissions framework adoption
  • Installation improvements

0.1.0 - 2023-04-10​

New Features​

initial release