Platform 2026.05

Released May 2026

This is the initial platform release under the new YYYY.MM versioning scheme.

Components

Component	App Version	Chart Version	Notes
Kubernetes	1.33	—	GKE, EKS, or AKS depending on your cloud
Airflow	3.2.2	1.21.0	Apache Airflow with Python 3.12
Airbyte	2.0.1	2.0.19	Data integration / ELT platform
Superset	6.1.0	0.15.5	Data visualization and dashboards
DataHub	1.5.0.6	0.11.0	Data catalog and lineage
KEDA	2.19.0	2.19.0	Event-driven pod autoscaling
CloudNativePG	1.29	0.28.2	Managed PostgreSQL operator
Terraform	1.15.3	—	Infrastructure provisioning

Highlights

Multi-cloud support

SkaleData now deploys to AWS (EKS) and Azure (AKS) in addition to GCP (GKE). All three clouds share the same application layer — Airflow, Airbyte, Superset, and DataHub work identically regardless of where your cluster runs.

AWS — EKS with managed node groups, S3 storage, ECR container registry, Secrets Manager
Azure — AKS with VMSS node pools, Blob Storage, ACR container registry, Key Vault
GCP — GKE with node pools, GCS storage, Artifact Registry, Secret Manager

Custom Airflow images

Deploy your own Airflow image with custom Python packages and DAGs:


skale airflow deploy --tag my-image:v1.2.3

The platform uses a stable :current tag with imagePullPolicy: Always — push a new image and restart to deploy. No Helm upgrade required for subsequent deploys.

DAG-only deploys

Push DAGs to your cluster without rebuilding the entire image:


skale airflow deploy --dag-only

DAGs are synced via a sidecar container every 30 seconds from your cloud storage bucket.

Platform version abstraction

Cluster versions are now expressed as YYYY.MM (e.g., 2026.05) instead of internal Scaffold tags. The console, CLI, and API all display the platform version.

Per-instance secrets backend

Each Airflow instance gets its own isolated secrets backend:

GCP — Secret Manager with prefix airflow/{instance}/
AWS — Secrets Manager with prefix airflow/{instance}/
Azure — Key Vault with dedicated vault per instance

Programmatic API access

Access your data plane applications (Airflow, Airbyte, Superset) programmatically via API keys:


curl -H "Authorization: Bearer sk_live_..." \
  https://{app}.skaledata.run/api/v2/dags

Helm-native app lifecycle

Applications are managed directly via Helm (not Terraform). This means:

Faster app provisioning (~2 min vs ~10 min)
Independent app lifecycle (add/remove/restart without touching infra)
Multi-instance support (run multiple Airflow instances per cluster)

Upgrade notes

This is the initial versioned release. All existing clusters are automatically on 2026.05.

Infrastructure changes

Cloud-agnostic module architecture (11 modules renamed, shared orchestration extracted)
NGINX ingress uses externalTrafficPolicy=Local on Azure for proper health probes
EKS cluster autoscaler included by default
gp3 StorageClass for EKS (replaces gp2)
Default node sizes: GCP e2-standard-4, AWS m5.xlarge, Azure Standard_D4s_v3