In this section, you will find reference of new StackSpot features & relevant changes in the documentation.

Features

What's new?

• New documentation menu. There are a new Create and Use Content section update, the former Guides section was reorganized into the following ones:

In Create Content:

• Plugin
• Stack
• Action

In Use Content:

• Application

• Infrastructure

• New Examples section

• With StackSpot, you can make a Plugin optional in the Starter, making it impossible to publish a Stack with an empty Starter (no Plugins). See more details on the Create Stack and Create Starter pages to find out more.

STK CLI

• New manifestos added:

  • Stack.yaml
  • Starter.yaml

• Added new .stkignore file to ignore publishing files in your StackSpot project. It does not affect the versioning in the Git files.

• Added new StackSpot inputs. They are variables used in your Plugins.

• New stk notify command. It improves the experience of making new deployments without StackSpot Runtime.

• New --output and --only-code flags to the stk ai command. Now you can get a prompt code without comments and save them in a file.

Fixes and changes

• The StackSpot Portal has been improved for better usability: Changes include moving buttons and sections in Studios, Workspaces, and Account.

• Runtime role update to configure an AWS account in your Workspace and deprecate the former role..

In this section, you will find reference of new StackSpot features & relevant changes in the documentation.

Features

What's new?

• New stk show me command. It allows you to get your StackSpot Account's data on your terminal.

• New stk variables. They work as input values and can have information about Account, Workspace, Studio, Stack, and others during the Plugin's usage or when creating Applications.

• New Access Management model: Policy-Based Access Control (PBAC), Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC), and Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) are now used to create a powerful and flexible access control structure.

To learn more about the new access, role, and permission management model for StackSpot accounts, check out the Access Management section.

• Access management migration guide: StackSpot is in the process of migrating its access, role, and permission management model.

The new model will be implemented in all accounts by 01/26/2023. To help you understand the changes, a guide has been created explaining the differences between the deprecated and current models.

Fixes and changes

• The alias name when applying an Infrastructure Plugin can have 50 characters.

• New action.yaml section. You will find all the fields and the configurations to be used in your Actions.

• Updates on how to publish Stacks via STK CLI. More details about requirements and new validation rules exist to publish a Stack. See more on the guide.

• Updates on the plugin.yaml file. There are new docs fields to create your Plugin documentation. The older ones were removed.

In this section, you will find reference of new StackSpot features & relevant changes in the documentation.

Features

What's new?

• A new way of documenting content in StackSpot: A new feature allows users to publish and update documentation of the content (Plugin, Stack, Action) they have created via the STK CLI. There are Markdown writing rules for creating documentation, which you can see on the StackSpot Platform.
  • The old documentation folders are now centralized in a single document with a Portuguese version (docs/pt-br) and an English version (docs/en-us).

For more information, see the stk update doc command.

• New STK CLI commands:
  • Create Stack and Starter via STK CLI.
  • Validate them using stk validate stack or stk validate starter.
  • Publish your Stack.

For more information, see how to [create, validate and publish Stack/Starter via STK CLI](/en/create-use/create-content/stack/create-stack-starter-cli.md).

• FAQ about Search Engine in StackSpot: Get to know StackSpot's new Search Engine. It's a tool that allows you to search for the content you want on the Platform objectively, using semantic searches. The system uses artificial intelligence to extract the context of your search and group information together, even if the results differ from what you searched for. For more information, see the FAQ.

• Search Engine 403 error added to Troubleshooting

• New semantic versioning. StackSpot uses SemVer. You can choose a specific version and a range for Action and Plugins. You can also define a range on Stack and Starter.

• New stk list studio command. List all your account Studios on your terminal.

• Execute Actions from a Stack when you apply a Plugin in an Application or Infrastructure using a new Declarative Hook: run-action.

• Added Actions on the Plugin's requires field.

• Personal accounts now can deploy an Application or an Infrastructure with StackSpot, but the deploy limit is 10 Plugins per Application or 10 execution per hour.

• You can configure your Azure cloud account on StackSpot. Follow the steps on the guide.

• New Connection Interfaces Types
  There are six new Connection Interfaces Types contracts and output available.

Fixes or changes

• Updates on Event History: The journey of generating the Event History file in StackSpot's EDP Platform has been changed. The documentation has also changed. For more information, see the Event History section.

• Dynamic Links: Content creators can generate links that automatically adjust to an application's parameters. With Dynamic Links you can reference URLs through the outputs of connections.

In this section, you will find reference of new StackSpot features & relevant changes in the documentation.

Features

What's new?

• You can create unit tests for your Plugins. These tests help you get the expected behavior in the usage, generated files, and the correct data. Learn how to test your Plugins.

• New stk update plugin to update the Plugin's version or reconfigure an infrastructure. You can update your Infrastructure Plugins used in an Application or reconfigure an Infrastructure.

Changes

• Added new steps to execute CLI via a pipeline. These are environment variables and runner packages in your pipeline settings. See the guide for more information.

• New roles to rollback, destroy and deploy using Runtime. See more details in each section:

• Deploy Shared Infraestrutura

• Application Infrastructure Deployment

In this section, you will find reference of new StackSpot features & relevant changes in the documentation.

Features

What's new?

• New Connection Interfaces Types

There are nine new Connection Interfaces Types contracts and output available.

• You can now use new technologies in a Plugin: You can now use 24 new technologies in a plugin.yaml. You can see all of it in the list.

• New rules and possibilities to apply Plugin There are new plugin.yaml attributes. See what you can do with each:

1. You can apply a Plugin once in an Application or Infrastructure.
2. You can use a Plugin in projects already created with StackSpot.
3. Choose if another will require a Plugin.

See more details on the Optional Attributes section.

• New self-hosted Runtime.

Changes

• Fixes on the containsAnycondition in the plugin.yaml input: [see more details].
• Updates in the create app e infra command. There are new interactive modes, and you can choose the Stack version with the - - starter, -s option.
• New single-use option for the plugin.yaml. It allows limit when applying a Plugin in an Application or Infrastructure.
• New Jinja filters: regex_replace e from_json.
• Added new MacOS installation warning.
• Added new Plugin dependency with the new semantic version with range in required Plugins.
• Action review on the SCM setup and new GitLab provider.
• Fix on the inputs-envs field. It was updated with new schema.

Documentation Changes

• New Examples section, you can see and follow the steps to create and use content on StackSpot.
• New Account and Workspace sections.

In this section, you will find reference of new StackSpot features & relevant changes in the documentation.

Features

What's new?

• New Insights Dashboard in the Studio

The Insights Dashboard offers a way to add or remove panels. You can also check graphs of entities such as Plugins and Stacks.

• Stacks Semantic Versioning

Stack versioning is now semantic, the versions can evolve alone. See more details on the Stack Versioning page.

• New Runtime Engine architecture

The new architecture is an easier way to deploy, destroy, and rollback Applications and Infrastructures.

• You can configure environments during deployment.

• Connection Interfaces improvements on the platform.

Find more details on the pages below:

• Set Up.

• Infrastructure Deployment.

• Deploy Applications.

• Use Private Repositories during a deployment.

• New Plugin Version
  In the Plugin v2, you can:

• Use more than one Connection Interface of the same type.

• Implement an Alias for Connection Interfaces and more.

• If you use the a Plugin v1, you need to migrate to v2. For more details check the migration guide.

• Creation of app.yaml
  Also in v2 of the Plugins, there is now a new yaml file: app.yaml.

• [Creation of infra.yaml and app.yaml] Another yaml file has also been created: infra.yaml.

Disclaimer: app.yaml and infra.yaml are now on app-spec.yaml and infra-spec.yaml

• New attributes in plugin.yaml . With Plugin Deployment in v2, new attributes have been added to plugin.yaml.

• Create Dynamic Links
  Content creators can generate links that adjust to the current parameters of the application.

• Create a feature to manage links in Applications and Infras
  You can integrate external tools in your Application or Infrastructure via Links. It can be static or embedded.

• New way to create Applications and Infrastructure on StackSpot Platform.

You have a new way to create Applications and Infrastructures in our Platform.

• New example to create Infrastructure and deploy via Plugins Check an example of how to create an Infrastructure and deploy via Plugins.

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Documentation Changes

• Documentation menu update
  You'll see a new Create and Use Content menu. It makes it easier to navigate the StackSpot documentation.

• Service Catalog: A guided onboarding on the Partner access

Partners can check a guide with the available sections in the Service Catalog.

• Parameter update
  The --environment parameter has been changed to --env or -e.

• Updates on the STK CLI commands page. Improvements on the commands page. The command descriptions are up to date with the new platform changes.

In this section, you will find reference of new StackSpot features & relevant changes in the documentation.

Features

What's new?

• Deprecate Content You can deprecate published Stack, Action and Starters versions in your Studio.

Check more details on the Stacks and Stacks versioning pages.

• Events History

You can now view events data users did in StackSpot's enterprise account.

You need an Account Holder permission.

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• Improvements on Service Catalog

New sections with new Service Catalog examples and main features.

For more details, check the pages:

• Create API App: New menu to create APIs in the Workspace.

• Create and Publish Products in the Catalog: In the Workspace, you can access a new menu to create and publish your Products in the Catalog.

• Add APIs from an Existing Application: You can add a Swagger and expose it to the Catalog in the application you've created.

• Access Service Catalog: You can access Service Catalog in your Account.

• FAQ: New section answering questions about the Service Catalog.

In this section, you will find reference of new StackSpot features & relevant changes in the documentation.

Features

What's new?

• Embedded Links You can add embed links to your Workspace to show up on the dashboard. Learn more on the new section.

• New Troubleshooting section.

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• Service Credentials

If you have Account Holder permission, you can generate service tokens for your Enterprise Account.

For more details, check the Service Credential section.

• Services Catalog This feature allows some clients to create and publish APIs in their organization. It can also expose APIs to other company partners.

For more details, check the Service Catalog section.

• New STK CLI commands STK CLI has new commands to help create and publish APIs:
• stk update app
• stk update infra
• stk publish api

For more details, check the Commands section.

• Delete Workspaces: Now you can delete created Workspaces if they are empty.

• You can edit name/description and delete:

  • Applications.
  • Infrastructure.

• You can add Tags on your Stacks and Technologies on Plugins.

In this section, you will find reference of new StackSpot features & relevant changes in the documentation.

Features

What's new?

• Find more about the new action to help with SCM integration, check:

  • GitHub
  • Azure
  • BitBucket

• Now, you can remove contents you created, check details:

  • Stack
  • Plugin
  • Action
  • Estúdio

• StackSpot has an Account now:

  • Enterprise

• Check details who can configure the Studio Visibility

• The platform has a new Application and Infrastructure dashboard.

• You can edit and delete your Applications and Infrastructure on the StackSpot Portal, check it out:

  • How to edit your Application's name and description
  • How to delete an Application
  • How to edit your Infrastructure name and description
  • How to delete your Infrastructure

Documentation Changes

• New Use Content section

  • Use Case
  • User Guide
  • Updates on the ‘About StackSpot’ section

• New Examples section

  • How to create Plugins
  • How to publish Plugin via Pipeline

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