Release notes for Databases for etcd

Use these release notes to learn about the latest updates to IBM Cloud® Databases for etcd that are grouped by date or build number.

15 November 2024

Cloud Databases logs and events are now available on IBM® Cloud Logs: Cloud Databases has onboarded IBM Cloud Logs, a scalable logging service that persists logs and provides users with capabilities for querying, tailing, and visualizing logs. Customers are expected to use IBM Cloud Logs to review their database logs and events starting November 15, 2024. For more information, see Set up logging and monitoring and About IBM Cloud Logs.

Deprecation: Databases for etcd is deprecated. As of 01 April 2025 you can't deploy new applications. Existing instances are supported until 15 October 2025. Any instances that still exist on that date will be deleted. For more information, see Deprecation of IBM Cloud® Databases for etcd.

Private endpoints as new default: To ensure best possible security for your databases, private endpoints are now the default in the IBM Cloud® console. CLI and Terraform now require the endpoint type to be provided as part of creating an instance.

New hosting models: You can choose between two hosting models: Isolated Compute and Shared Compute. Isolated Compute is a secure single-tenant offering for complex, highly performant enterprise workloads. Shared Compute is a flexible multi-tenant offering for dynamic, fine-tuned, and decoupled capacity selections. For more information, see Hosting models.

Monitoring Integration documentation updated: Monitoring Integration documentation now lists metrics for all Cloud Databases services. For more information, see Monitoring Integration.

Upgrading to a new Major Version: Documentation on Upgrading to a new Major Version published.

Setting up disk alerts for disk utilization tutorial: In this tutorial, you use the IBM Cloud API and the IBM Cloud CLI to set up an alert that emails you whenever the disk utilization of your database exceeds 90%. This specific example creates an alert on a Databases for Elasticsearch deployment, but it is applicable to all the databases in the IBM Cloud Databases catalog. For more information, see Setting up disk alerts for disk utilization.

Deploying and Connecting a Cloud Databases Instance Tutorial: This tutorial guides you through the process of deploying a Cloud Databases instance and connecting it to a web front end by creating a webpage that allows visitors to input a word and its definition. These values are then stored in a database running on Cloud Databases. You install the database infrastructure by using Terraform and your web application uses the popular Express framework. The application can then be run locally, or by using Docker. For more information, see Deploying and Connecting a Cloud Databases Instance.

Protecting IBM Cloud® Databases for etcd resources with context-based restrictions: Context-based restrictions (CBR) give account owners and administrators the ability to define and enforce access restrictions for IBM Cloud® resources based on the context of access requests. Access to Cloud Databases resources can be controlled with CBR and identity and access management (IAM) policies. For more information, see Protecting Cloud Databases resources with context-based restrictions.

IBM Cloud® Databases for etcd Security Goals Updated: Available security and compliance goals updated. See updated goals here.

General Availability of IBM Cloud® Databases for etcd support for IBM Cloud Databases enabled by IBM Cloud Satellite®.: A distributed cloud provides consistent security and services across environments, centralized workload visibility, reduced latency, easier compliance and higher application development velocity. See blog post announcement here.

IBM Cloud® Databases for etcd autoscaling: We are excited to announce that autoscaling of your deployments based on disk capacity and disk I/O utilization is now available for IBM Cloud® Databases for etcd via the UI, API, and CLI. See blog post announcement here.

New Regions Available for IBM Cloud Database Services: IBM Cloud® Databases for etcd is now available to be deployed in Seoul; South Korea; and Chennai, India. See blog post announcement here.

General Availability of Databases for etcd: Databases for etcd added to the IBM Cloud Databases family. See blog post announcement here.