Ubicloud Managed Kubernetes (new)

We are excited to announce our managed Kubernetes service, in preview, cutting your Kubernetes costs by 60-70%, and simplifying your setup. Ubicloud Kubernetes handles the creation, management, and maintenance of your Kubernetes clusters so you can focus on building and shipping your software.

PR #2598, #2621, #2617, #2650, #2967, #2674, #2925, #2941

Ubicloud CLI (new)

We are happy to announce ubi, Ubicloud’s thin command line interface tool. The Thin CLIent approach allows you to use new features without updating your CLI installation, in a much smaller package in a secure way.

Available for Linux, Mac, Windows. MacOS users can install with:

brew install ubicloud/cli/ubi
PR #2671, #2746, #2752, #2788, #2796, #2813, #2842, #2849, #2857, #2951, #2983

Managed PostgreSQL

Read Replicas

Create as many read replicas for your PostgreSQL databases to balance read workloads. Promote them to standalone writable instances at any time.

Manage your maintenance window

Select the 2-hour time window that is the least disruptive for your database where maintenance operations can be performed.

High availability is now datacenter-aware

Standbys for high availability mode are now placed in different data centers in the eu-central-h1 region for improved durability.

Multiple PGBouncer instances for faster transactions

Postgres instances are deployed with multiple pgbouncer instances, depending on the instance size, for improved parallelism in transactional workloads.

PostgreSQL 17 is the default

Now Ubicloud Postgres defaults to PostgreSQL 17, with the option to select PostgreSQL 16.

PR #3137, #3148, #3132, #3122, #3057, #3016

Github Runners

Using GCR as image mirror

Our Github runners utilize Google Container Registry as an image mirror for avoiding Docker Hub quota limits.

PR #3078

Compute

Burstable compute option is available in Virginia, U.S. region

Start using Ubicloud VMs with the burstable option in the Virginia, U.S. region, starting from $8.35/mo.

Public key format is validated when creating virtual machines

We now validate the public key format when creating a virtual machine, ensuring user errors are caught before they cause issues.

PR #3092, #3187