Changelog

Happy Thursday, folks! This week, our team gave some attention to the project deployment experience and made some security tweaks on our fresh new marketing site, https://tempestdx.com.

And check out our download on KubeCon Europe 2025, including common questions and big themes we heard.

New to Tempest? Welcome! Join our Slack community, book time with our team, or reach out on LinkedIn, X, or BlueSky.

Spotlights

Improved project screenshots

Tempest can now capture screenshots of your software projects, so you can see how your latest deployment looks, at a glance! 🚀

Tempest will scan your deployed resources to find a public URL and capture a screenshot if one is found. The screenshot will stay attached to the deployment, so you’ll always have a point-in-time view of how your project appears.

Improvements & Bug Fixes

Security

• Tightened the Content Security Policy (CSP) for https://tempestdx.com.

Our team is back in action after KubeCon London last week! Between platform philosophizing, shaking off jet lag, and way too much swag, we’ve made time to ship a set of updates that’s focused on product clarity and usability. This release tightens up list views for faster insights at a glance and delivers contextual AI log summaries to help debug and understand deployments.

New to Tempest? Welcome! Join our Slack community, book time with our team, or reach out on LinkedIn, X, or BlueSky.

Spotlights

Updated Teams, Recipes, and Projects lists

We’ve updated our list tables to help you see more, faster, and with less clutter. Here’s what’s new:

• Quick access to detail pages: Teams, Recipes, and Projects now include hover popovers with direct links to their full views.

• Clearer ownership: We've added an ownership column to Resources, Recipes, and Projects, so it's easier to know who’s responsible for what at a glance.

• Smarter tagging: Tags now automatically compact when space is tight. Hover to view all labels and classifications, with links to their details.

Contextual AI-Driven Log Summaries

We’ve added a contextual AI assistant to every deployment in Tempest. It uses the full context of your resource to surface relevant insights.

Whether something breaks or ships successfully, the assistant helps you understand exactly what was orchestrated and why, making it easier to debug issues or review what worked.

Improvements & Bug Fixes

Security

• Configured security headers according with OWASP best practices to provide an additional layer of protection against common attacks like XSS and clickjacking.

• Fixed a bug with CORS headers where, in rare cases, a value wasn’t set correctly.

• Improved our signup flow to prevent brute-force attacks.

Happy Friday! This late week release ahead of KubeCon is a big one, so get ready! We’re introducing the beta of our relationship mapping in Tempest’s software catalog as part of our effort to make Tempest the best internal developer portal. We’ve also released six new first-party integrations as part of our ever expanding app ecosystem.

And don’t forget — we won’t have a changelog next week as the Tempest team will be in London April 1-4 for KubeCon Europe! We’ll have fun swag and raffle prizes (hint: it starts with “Keychron” and ends with “mechanical keyboard” ;) ) and we’d love to meet you! Email us at hello@tempestdx.com and let’s connect!

If you have any questions, join our Slack community, book time with our team, or reach out on LinkedIn, X, or BlueSky.

Spotlights

Relationships Graph (beta)

We’ve spoken to dozens of teams who emphasized how critical dev portals are for understanding the full shape of an organization’s engineering system, at a glance. That’s why we’ve introduced new relationship visualizations to beta, making it easier to see how your architecture connects and evolves over time.

What is it?

Tempest’s relationships graph provides a map that visualizes how services, resources, people, and teams are connected across your engineering system.

With Tempest’s relationships graph, you can:

• Understand how a change in one service will impact others;

• Navigate unfamiliar parts of your technology stack quickly;

• Troubleshoot faster;

• Clarify ownership; and

• Improve platform visibility.

How are they populated?

Relationships are auto-inferred based on existing Tempest deployments or can be manually defined for every individual component of your catalog.

The relationships graph is still in beta, so try it out and share with us what you think!

New first-party app integrations

Tempest’s integration ecosystem allows users to import and centralize your existing tools into your software catalog, while also enabling you to add them as resources into recipes, so that they’re automagically provisioned as part of your deployment workflows.

Here’s what’s new:

AWS Lambda

Create and manage AWS Lambda functions directly from your deployment workflows, or import existing functions into your service catalog. Define memory, timeouts, and more as part of your recipes for fully automated, event-driven compute.

DataDog

Use the DatDog app to create, import, and define critical monitors, service level objectives, and APM service definitions, so that your observability setup stays in sync with the rest of your platform.

Jira

Tempest’s Jira integration allows developers to create, import, and manage Jira components. You can also import Jira projects into Tempest to manage them all in a single platform.

Slack

Use the new Slack first party integration to create new channels as part of a deployment workflow or import channels to centralize them in your service catalog.

Supabase

Create and manage Supabase projects as part of project deployment pipelines, or import projects into the service catalog.

Sentry

The Sentry app lets you create and manage error tracking, import projects, and integrate monitoring directly into your deployment pipelines.

Read more in the Apps Directory of our documentation site.

This week, our team is heads down in preparation for KubeCon + CloudNativeFest in London this April, so stay tuned for a few major feature updates in the coming weeks.

In the meantime, we’ve worked on our new application SDK and also made improvements to our deployment systems. Our enhanced SDK will make developing applications easier than ever, while new credentials management capabilities will simplify how external applications handle authentication.

If you have any questions or want to connect, join our Slack community, book time with our team, or reach out on LinkedIn, X, or BlueSky.

Improvements and Bug Fixes

New apps & updates

• Delivered real-time build log streaming in the AWS app now enables instant visibility into your build processes.

• Added a new Update operation for the CodeBuild resource allows flexible configuration management.

• Fixed an AWS CodeBuild Project configuration issue that prevented using the same repository across multiple build projects. Users can now create multiple AWS CodeBuild Projects that reference the same external Git repository, enabling better code reuse and standardization across builds.

Spring is almost here (and this time it's not just Groundhog Phil's wishful thinking!), and so are exciting updates to Tempest! This week, we've introduced major improvements to our deployment logs with AI-powered analysis and streaming capabilities. We've also continued refining our Deploy catalog and project pages for a better user experience, alongside important security enhancements and numerous quality-of-life improvements.

If you have any questions or want to connect, join our Slack community, book time with our team, or reach out on LinkedIn, X, or BlueSky.

Spotlights

New powerful deployment logs

We've completely redesigned our logs experience with several powerful new features that bring better visibility and actionable insights into the state of your deployments:

• Streaming Logs - Watch logs appear in real time as they're generated

• Enhanced Format - Enhanced readability with clearer log visualization

• Error Visibility - Errors are highlighted prominently for faster troubleshooting

• Search Functionality - Find specific logs instantly with our powerful search bar

• AI-Powered Log Analysis - Get immediate, intelligent insights from your deployment logs

Improvements & Bug Fixes

Security

• We've upgraded our application tokens to use asymmetric keys, switching from HS256 to the more secure RS256 algorithm. This enhances the overall security of your Tempest environment.

New apps & updates

• Many applications now support log streaming, and we're actively converting more logs to this experience.

Recipes, projects, deployments

• Project tabs are now positioned beneath the title, matching the recipe layout.

• Removed duplicate titles from variables, deployments, resources, and logs sections.

• We added recent deployment information to the Project page for quick access.

• Environment variable names can now start with a number.

With winter almost over, it’s time for some spring cleaning in Tempest! This week, we launched a new look in our Deploy catalog and Recipes page. We’ve also added the ability to import users from your organization directory into Tempest, alongside other quality of life improvements and bug fixes.

If you have any questions or want to connect, join our Slack community, book time with our team, or reach out on LinkedIn, X, or BlueSky.

Spotlights

Deploy and Recipes have a new look!

The Deploy catalog and Recipes creation and update pages have new, refreshed UI that make finding critical information at a glance faster and more delightful to navigate.

User Directory Sync

Organizations can now easily import users from their Microsoft Entra ID into Tempest via Directory Sync. Once synced, you can also set user role and team membership for imported users.

Over the coming months, we’ll continue to expand integrations with popular identity providers. Reach out to hello@tempestdx.com to share any you’d like to see come first!

Improvements & Bug Fixes

Developer ecosystem

• Improved CLI messaging for Recipe, Project and Resource listing.

Recipes, projects, deployments

• Project Labels and Classifications are now inherited by the resources created for that project.

• Improved handling of Resource synchronization errors.

• Fixed a bug during Resource deletion.

As February comes to a close, we’re excited to start rolling out some big improvements to Projects and Private Apps in Tempest! We’ve also kept an eye to quality with our usual collection of enhancements and bug fixes. Wishing you a happy Thursday from the Tempest team in 🇵🇱 & 🇺🇸!

If you have any questions or want to connect, join our Slack community, book time with our team, or reach out on LinkedIn, X, or BlueSky.

Spotlights

Project deployment experience improvements

We’ve made some major changes to the project setup and deployment experiences to further streamline your team's developer self-service! After clicking “Deploy Project”, you can immediately see the resources that are being provisioned and detailed logging information about what Tempest is doing behind the scenes.

Once set up, you’ll be able to see at-a-glance what code is deployed to your Project environments and quickly open it in GitHub.

Private App management updates

We know that Private Apps are a critical part of the Tempest experience that lets you pull in and automate any piece of technology in your stack. After seeing how users interact with this feature, we’ve released several improvements to make building and managing your Private Apps even easier.

Here’s what we’ve done:

• It’s now easier to set a Private App version as the current one when publishing, which ensures that the changes you make are being correctly reflected across Tempest.

• We improved the onboarding experience to include more links to documentation on how to setup Private Apps and quickly copy Tempest CLI commands to get started locally faster.

• We added the option to activate a Private App version for use across your organization when publishing

• We fixed a bug in the App Playground where very long resource configurations weren’t scrollable.

• We now allow unpublished Private App versions to be permanently deleted.

Improvements & Bug Fixes

Security

• Additional hardening of our GraphQL API against malicious operations.

Recipes, projects, deployments

• When creating a new Project, you are automatically assigned as the DRI.

• Fixed a bug where certain resources wouldn’t provision if their advanced configuration was set during Project creation.

User Management

• Fixed a bug where a team couldn’t be deleted if they owned a Private App.

Developer Ecosystem

• The Tempest CLI now returns a descriptive error message if the authentication token is missing.

We’re well into February, and the team has been busy crafting a more seamless software catalog experience. This release introduces new API and CLI capabilities that gives you easy access to your software catalog data, plus a host of enhancements and bug fixes to project classification, recipe deployments, and more.

If you have any questions or want to connect, join our Slack community, book time with our team, or reach out on LinkedIn, X, or BlueSky.

Let’s dive into what’s new!

Spotlights

Access your Software Catalog via command-line and API

In line with our Tempest principle of ensuring critical software catalog data is accessible wherever developers need it, we’ve introduced new HTTP API endpoints alongside new CLI commands.

These updates empower developers to access and read recipes, projects, and resources through their preferred interface, whether it’s a direct API call or the command line, to keep vital information within easy reach.

CLI commands

To list all of the projects, recipes, and resources in your Software Catalog:

• project list [—limit]

• recipe list [—limit]

• resources list [—limit]

To get a specific project, recipe, or resource by ID:

• project get <id>

• recipe get <id>

• resources get <id>

HTTP API endpoints

To list all projects, recipes, and resources in your Software Catalog via API:

• /api/v1/projects.list

• /api/v1/recipes.list

• /api/v1/resources.list

To get a specific project, recipe, or resource by ID:

• /api/v1/projects.get

• /api/v1/recipes.get

• /api/v1/resources.get

See it in action here, and get more details in our CLI and API documentation.

Improvements & Bug Fixes

Developer ecosystem

• Fixed a bug where project configuration values for a Private App weren’t being correctly filtered and displayed.

Recipes, projects, deployments

• New projects now inherit the tags, ownership, products, and features of the recipe it was deployed from.

• Updated empty states on the Variables page with contextual links.

• Fixed a bug that would not let you deploy a project with an existing project repository.

• Fixed a bug that would not let you bulk select unclassified entities.

• Fixed a bug where in rare cases project provisioning would end up in a loop.

• Ordered project resources with a consistent sort based on resource state.

• Added dates to the software catalog CSV export.

• Fixed scroll issues on project deploy page.

• Replace outdated Project icons.

The newest edition of our changelog is ready just in time for Valentine’s Day. Grab a glass and enjoy a host of new features, enhancements, and bug fixes, from Software Catalog improvements and CSV exports, to tighter security and improved user management.

If you’ve got feedback or feature requests, you can book time with us to chat, or find us in our Slack community, LinkedIn, X, and BlueSky.

Spotlights

Exporting your Software Catalog

We’ve built a quick way to export your Software Catalog via CSV. With this update, Tempest now lets you organize, digest, and drive insights on every software component in your catalog, both within and outside of the web interface. Export entire tables for your resources, recipes, projects, and teams, or select specific items from the list.

To export, either select individual items and export them using the right-click contextual menu or using the “…” menu in the top-right corner of the screen. Tempest currently supports exporting Resources, Projects, Teams, and team members.

Improvements & Bug Fixes

Security

• Improved error boundaries inside of an organization to show proper 404 pages for removed teams.

• Tempest CLI now uses secure API key input that is detected by modern terminals

Recipes, projects, deployments

• Updated bulk selection on Resource, Project, Recipe, and Team lists to show the active and indeterminate state of each selected item when updating Ownership, Labels, Classifications, and Products & Features.

• Updated ownership labels to be standardized across Tempest with both full and truncated versions (for example, a Directly Responsible Individual may be referred to as a DRI in some areas of the product).

• Fixed a bug where a product or feature could be set as the child of another product or feature that was a descendent of the original item, creating an infinite recursion.

• Fixed a bug that caused products and features to display incorrect entities.

• Fixed a bug where project configuration reviews did not always display all values

• Enhanced validation logic to properly handle the Bring Your Own Repository workflow.

• Updated governance tags to be split into separate Labels and Classifications pages.

User management

• Updated pending invites to provide a clearer browser title and redirect back to the list of invites after a successful submission.

• Improved the People list to show each person’s active teams as their own tags with the team’s active highlight color.

Developer ecosystem

• Tempest CLI now correctly handles revoked API keys.

• Updated our examples to reflect the latest changes in the Private App schema.

This week’s release is packed with major features that our users have been asking for, including an expansion of our Governance page and project deployment improvements. Plus, big news regarding compliance certification that reasserts our commitment to keeping customer data safe.

If you’ve got feedback or feature requests, you can book time with us to chat, or find us in our Slack community, LinkedIn, X, and BlueSky.

Spotlights

Tempest is now SOC 2 Type 1 certified

As part of our commitment to keeping your data safe, Tempest is now SOC 2 Type 1 certified! Stay tuned for more updates on additional certifications.

Expanding Governance across the Software Catalog

Two weeks ago, we introduced the Tempest Governance page with labels, classifications, and ownership. This week, we’ve expanded the Governance page to include recipes, projects, resources, people, and teams.

Products and features can be grouped, owned, and tagged, fully connecting your software directory with your people directory.

You can access this page on the Governance tab of the lefthand sidebar.

Post-deployment project updates

We’ve added the ability to make edits to and rerun individual projects, giving users the flexibility to adapt projects as requirements change and making it effortless to refine configurations with a single click.

To do this, go to your Project and click “Edit Project.” From there, you can modify the configuration and re-deploy.

Improvements & Bug Fixes

Security

• We fixed an issue on the Single Sign-On (SSO) settings page where status selection would reset after changing windows.

Recipes, projects, deployments

• We’ve built the ability to bulk archive recipes and projects.

• We updated label renaming rules to prevent empty strings.

• We fixed a bug where recipe images were not populating in the Deploy catalog.

Documentation

• We updated the documentation favicon to a new style.

User management

• We resolved issues with team sorting.

• We added filtering for unassigned teams.

Time flies when you're shipping code! It feels like we were just celebrating the New Year, reflecting on the past year, and now Valentine’s Day is already around the corner. This week, we tackled features that enterprise customers have been asking for, starting with Single Sign-On, alongside other improvements we’re excited to share with you!

If you’ve got feedback or feature requests, you can book time with us to chat, or find us in our Slack community, LinkedIn, X, and BlueSky.

Spotlights

Microsoft Entra ID Single Sign-On

At Tempest, security is a top priority. We’re introducing support for Single Sign-On to help large-scale organizations securely manage access to their Tempest organization. We're starting with Microsoft Entra ID, a leading identity provider, and plan to integrate additional providers in future releases. You can configure SSO under your Organization settings.

See more details in our documentation.

We also gave our login screen a new look! If your organization has enabled Single Sign-On, users can enter their email address to be redirected to their identity provider's page to complete sign-in.

Improvements & Bug Fixes

Security

• As mentioned earlier, we take security seriously. We've added GraphQL Armor to strengthen our protection against common GraphQL vulnerabilities.

Developer ecosystem

• The Tempest CLI now allows you to configure how long it waits for app execution.

Recipes, projects, deployments

• Text search is now case-insensitive throughout the product.

• We fixed a bug in column sorting.

• We've made the sorting experience consistent across all tables.

Private App enhancements

• It is now possible to load schemas from multiple App versions.

• We fixed a bug where deleted Private Apps were still showing up in lists.

• We fixed a bug where right-clicking on a Private App resource and picking "View in Playground" wouldn't load the correct schema.

• We added an explicit (and discoverable) button for launching the Playground directly from a Private App version page.

We’re already three weeks into 2025, and time is flying by! This week, our entire team has been all hands on deck to deliver our new Governance page, alongside additional bug fixes and usability improvements.

As always, check out our Slack community if you haven’t joined yet. You can also book time with our team anytime for questions and support, or DM us on LinkedIn, X, or BlueSky.

Spotlights

Governance for Labels, Classifications, and Ownership

We’re introducing Tempest Governance, which centralizes all of the data in your Software Catalog and provides an intuitive surface to view, manage, and organize critical information about your company’s technology.

We’re starting with Tags and Ownership. Quickly find the resources, projects, recipes, teams, and people associated with specific labels and classifications, or surface and assign owners to every resource, project, or recipe in your organization. The Governance page gives you an intuitive way to ensure your Catalog is up-to-date with the information that matters.

And this is just the start! Stay tuned in the coming weeks to see how we plan on expanding our Governance page to cover all of your developer portal use cases. Or share your thoughts and feedback with us directly at hello@tempestdx.com.

Improvements & Bug Fixes

General

• We improved error and timeout handling in our search index.

• We fixed a bug where an entity was untagged but still returned in search filters for that tag.

• Label names are now unique.

• We improved scrolling for long item lists.

Security

• We fixed a few CSP (Content Security Policy) issues on tempestdx.com.

Developer ecosystem

• We’ve added new information to our documentation site on installing Tempest CLI via Homebrew.

User management

• Labels can now be applied to People and Team entities.

We’re midway through January and the team’s been hard at work! This week, we focused on delivering a consistent, polished experience across all of our list pages and improved how labels are shown for individual Projects, Resources, and Recipes. We’ve also been working on some powerful new features for organizing and classifying your software and teams—expect those in the coming weeks!

Join our Slack community if you have any questions, book time with our team, or DM us on LinkedIn, X, or BlueSky.

Spotlights

Bulk editing improvements for Teams and People

We’ve expanded the visual refresh and bulk editing improvements highlighted in last week’s changelog to the Teams, People, and Pending Invites list pages.

Improved view of Classifications and Labels on Projects, Resources, & Recipes

Key information like classifications and labels are now even easier to view at a glance across list views. We’ve made it even easier to find what you need quickly by surfacing security, criticality, and compliance classifications in labeled sections on Projects, Resources, and Recipes.

Improvements & Bug Fixes

General

• Fixed a bug where certain text areas couldn’t be selected or copied.

Developer ecosystem

• The Apps list has received a visual refresh to match other list pages. You can now more easily differentiate between your organization’s Private Apps and those developed by Tempest. You can also see ownership information and the latest published version of your Private Apps directly in the list.

• The Tempest CLI client now scaffolds applications with a health check. This lets you instantly verify if your new Private App is running and communicates with Tempest.

Recipes, projects, deployments

• Fixed a bug where drafts were shown when filtering the resources list by Recipe or Project

• Fixed a bug where lists of Resources, Projects, and Recipes were not being sorted alphabetically.

• Imported resources will no longer sync with Tempest after they are archived.

User management

• Improved styling on invite emails.

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Security

• At Tempest, we’re all about keeping things secure and reliable. This week, we’ve enhanced our applications to support hitless TLS certificate rotation. Now, our short-lived certificates can be updated seamlessly, ensuring uninterrupted service and increased reliability for our internal communication.

We’re welcoming 2025 with a few big changes that make building private apps even more seamless, and editing, filter, and display improvements for a more delightful experience managing your software catalog.

Join our Slack community if you have any questions, book time with our team, or DM us on LinkedIn, X, or BlueSky.

Spotlights

New Self-Service Playground & IDE IntelliSense

We’ve made building private apps smoother and more predictable by publishing a Tempest-specific JSON Schema dialect. VS Code (any many other IDEs) will now be able to automatically validate private app resource definitions and provide code completion as you type.

Start using it in your Private Apps today by adding this line to your resource schemas:

"$schema": "https://developer.tempestdx.com/schema/v1/tempest-app-schema.json",

Additionally, the App Playground has some new functionality:

• Quickly add common types of fields to your schema. It currently supports text, number, checkbox, and dropdown fields—with more coming soon!

• …and once you’re done editing, use the new controls to format and download it to your computer.

Table and Bulk Edit Improvements

We’ve made major changes to our bulk editing, filter, and display experiences in Tempest to make gleaning information and managing your software catalog easier than ever.

Project, Recipe, and Resource tables have been updated to show metadata like Teams, Labels, and Last Sync Date in structured columns. This makes scanning rows easier, plus sorting most information has been reduced by a click.

Additionally, we’ve revamped filters and display options to take up less UI space—until you need them. Filters can now be found under the “Filters” button at the top of the page and supports everything available previously, including search, teams, and classifications. Active filters still show up above the table, making it easier to quickly see what is and isn’t being filtered.

Finally, bulk editing has been improved to include labels and classifications, along with updates to our toast messages to better understand how many items were updated.

Improvements & Bug Fixes

Security

• Fixed the “Login with Magic Link” experience to be more stable. In rare cases, links were not working.

Developer Experience

• The Tempest CLI client can now be installed using Homebrew.

Resources

• Resources can now be be archived and deleted from Tempest both individually and in bulk. Archived resources created by Tempest will no longer sync automatically, but can still be viewed from the new “Archived” tab on the Resources list. Resources covered by “Import & Sync” policy will continue to sync changes despite the archived status.

Recipes, Projects, Deployments

• Improved the time to fetch Imported Resources, making it faster and easier to organize your software in Tempest.

• Updated links to show the native browser menu contextual menu when right clicking.

• Fixed GitHub Profile images when displayed in the “Last Commit” Project details.

• Removed the display of draft update values from Published Recipes in the list table.

• Fixed Storage Buckets’ link to the Google Cloud dashboard.

User Management

• Fixed the display of Organization logos in the sidebar so they always show in a square aspect ratio.

• Updated Organization Settings so the Org name can now be changed after creation without affecting the slug so that any name to be used. Slugs must still be unique.

App Playground

• Removed a visual bug where the dark mode border was visible in light mode.

User Navigation

• Updated the Tempest app sidebar navigation to be organized around three categories: Software Catalog, Platform, and Workspace.

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As we bid farewell to 2024, we’re excited to share our final changelog of the year! This sprint is packed with exciting updates like our revamped documentation site, an Apps Playground, and important ownership updates, all designed to make building and leveraging your developer portal and platform easier than ever.

We’ll be back next week with even more awesome features to kick off 2025. Happy holidays and thank you for being part of the Tempest community! And as always, join our Slack community if you have any questions, book time with our team, or DM us on LinkedIn, X, or BlueSky.

Spotlights

Documentation Site Revamp

We’ve released a completely new documentation site with expanded content pages and improved usability. Enjoy refreshed content with a better information architecture, clearer guidance, and more quick start instructions that makes navigating Tempest a breeze. Take a look at docs.tempestdx.com and check back often for regular updates!

Apps Playground

We’re introducing our Apps Playground, a powerful new tool to make building Private Apps easier than ever. With this Playground, admins can preview and test their Private App as they build it, without needing to publish a new version.

Simply input your resource definition into the JSON and instantly see what your Recipe editing experience would look like, on the same page. This feature allows you to iterate and validate your resources seamlessly, ensuring everything works perfectly before entering the full publishing flow.

Ownership Updates

We’ve enhanced ownership across Tempest with this release. This update clarifies ownership across all entities—including resources, projects, and recipes—by displaying author labels, team names with team leads, and separate sections for different owner categories.

Additionally, we've expanded ownership capabilities by adding new ownership fields, allowing you to assign individual users as DRI, Code Owner, Security, Privacy, SRE, or Manager. These improvements provide greater transparency and control, ensuring clear accountability and enhancing collaboration within your engineering teams.

Improvements & Bug Fixes

Developer Experience

• Improved Project, Resource, and Private App logs to function similarly to other common logging tools.

• Added support for SVG files and animated GIFs

Setup and Validation

• Added input validation to the setup completion page for enhanced reliability.

• Implemented error handling to notify users if an organization already exists during setup.

User Management

• Allow admins to add themselves and others to any team in an organization.

Private App Enhancements

• Separated team and author information in Private App versions for better clarity and management.

Happy holidays! This is our last changelog before Christmas, so we loaded this week up with a few improvements we think will make managing your software catalog much easier. Since most of the team will be under the influence of eggnog next week, our next changelog will drop on New Year’s Eve!

Join our Slack community if you have any questions, book time with our team, or DM us on LinkedIn, X, or BlueSky.

Spotlights

Bulk owner assignment and classification of Resources

The multi-select improvements debuted in last week’s changelog for People and Teams has been rolled out to the Resources list. Now you can assign ownership and classify resources in bulk. A software catalog is only as useful as the data in it, and keeping that data accurate and properly attributed just got easier with this release. We’re going to be rolling this out Tempest-wide in the next release—it takes a little bit of thought to make sure that the bulk actions play nice with all the dynamic and page specific metadata and filters.

Toggling resources available in your recipes

We've introduced new controls for managing apps and resources in your recipes. You can now enable or disable specific resources and entire apps from being used in recipes, giving you more granular control over what tech you want to support within your organization.

The new controls include:

• Global toggles for entire apps

• Per-resource controls for fine-grained management

• Automatic hiding of disabled options from recipe selection

Image upload improvements

We’ve made uploading images easier across all the places you can upload images:

• Organization logo

• User profiles photos

• Recipe screenshots

The new uploader will automatically optimize your images, and should be a lot less finicky as long as you’re uploading images less than 20mb in size. Typical formats are supported: png, gif, jpg, and webp.

Improvements & Bug Fixes

General

• We’ve added a bit of smart rendering of your resource names. Previously, if you had an app named ArgoCD, and a resource named ArgoCD Application, it would be displayed as “ArgoCD ArgoCD Application” in some places. Moving forward, this should now be displayed as you expect: “ArgoCD Application”.

• We’ve fixed a bug where the the days left in trial CTA could show negative numbers.

New Apps & Updates

• Last week we shipped support for Azure repos—but the autocomplete for your repos were resolving as UUIDs. That’s been fixed now, and you no longer need to translate UUIDs to import your Azure repos. 🎉

Recipes, Projects, and Deployments

• Fixed a bug where deployment status message and icon would show as Ready when, indeed, the resources were not yet ready

• We’ve changed the way owners are displayed in the project and resource page sidebar. It should be clearer now who the team owner and author are, and more obvious that you can easily reassign the team.

Our last two changelogs have been really eventful, with significant new features like Workflows and Deployments. While you all are trying those features out, we took this week to address your feedback on developing Private Apps. And by request, we added support for Microsoft Azure Repos, which you can now use as a resource in your recipes.

Join our Slack community if you have any questions, book time with our team, or DM us on LinkedIn, X, or BlueSky.

Spotlights

Recipe Previews with Screenshots and Sharing

You can now customize how you share your Tempest recipes. The new preview page shows the creator, their team, and what resources the recipe provisions. Add a custom message for your users and up to 6 screenshots to help them get started. Check out the new "Display" tab in your recipe editor to try it out.

Microsoft Azure Repos support

Azure Repos are now available in your Tempest recipes. Import your codebase to build container images and connect with other resources, or bring in repos to assign ownership and organize with classifications.

Multi-select improvements

We've revamped multi-select in Tempest, starting with People & Teams pages, with all pages updating next week. Since keeping your software catalog up to date is crucial for managing lots of resources and teams, we've made bulk editing ownership much faster and more intuitive. Let us know what you think!

Improvements & Bug Fixes

Security

• We've laid the groundwork to make role-based access control (RBAC) more transparent in Tempest. While your data and operations are already protected by user and team roles, we're working to better surface how these permissions affect your experience. These backend changes set the foundation for upcoming features.

• Changed the default TTL for your Tempest API keys to 1 year. This is mostly a QoL change, you can still configure a shorter TTL, and manually revoke keys.

New apps & updates

• Added support for Microsoft Azure Repos

Recipes, projects, deployments

• In your projects, the resources page has been improved. Links to external dashboards have been moved outside of the previously hard to see “…” menu and into a dedicated button.

• Private Apps name, icon, and description can now be deleted.

• Private Apps can now be deleted.

• Fixed a bug where external links in Projects > My Project > Resources could be undefined.

• Fixed a bug where the sort order for recipe drafts was useless. They’re now sorted by last updated.

• Fixed a bug where deployments would take a long time to be rescheduled if they suffered a transient failure.

• Fixed a bug where the recipe provisioning summary was missing for Workflow recipes

• Fixed a bug that occasionally prevented secret environment variables from getting delivered

User Management

• Added bulk actions for user management on the People and Teams pages. You can assign users to teams by selecting them and using the right-click menu.

What a month! Fresh off our GA launch and Thanksgiving break (food comas included), our team couldn't wait to get back to improving your developer experience.

Got thoughts on these updates? Whether it's a feature request, bug report, or you caught us doing something silly—we want to hear it. Jump into our Slack community, find us on Bluesky, LinkedIn, or X, or book a demo to chat with the team directly.

Spotlights

Workflows: Self-Service Infrastructure in Seconds

We're launching workflows—a streamlined evolution of our powerful recipes engine. Tempest now offers two powerful paths for developer self-serve automation:

• Application recipes: Deploy full stack applications across any environment

• Workflow recipes: Define custom infrastructure provisioning workflows without Git repositories or environment configuration

Perfect for spinning up:

• Pre-configured VMs in AWS/GCP

• Database resources in Postgres

• Monitoring setups in Datadog

• New applications in ArgoCD

Like our existing Application recipes, workflows run on-demand with full logging and automatic resource tracking in Tempest. They're fully compatible with Private Apps and introduce our new Getting Started instructions feature—customizable Markdown guides that include code blocks, links, headers, and dynamic resource properties to help users navigate their newly provisioned resources.

Available to all customers starting tomorrow. Full documentation drops next week, but hop into our Slack community or schedule a chat if you're eager to learn more.

Smart Datasources: Live Infrastructure Data at Your Fingertips

We've enhanced our datasources—the feature that brings live provider data directly into your recipe configurations. Datasources eliminate the need to jump between dashboards and documentation by automatically surfacing your infrastructure options where you need them.

When you connect your providers to Tempest, datasources automatically pull in:

• GCP projects and active availability zones

• GitHub repositories and templates

• Kubernetes namespaces and gateway classes

What's new:

• Type-ahead autocomplete replaces dropdown menus—use suggestions or input custom values

• Clear error messages when credentials expire or permissions change

• Improved reliability across provider integrations

These improvements make it even easier to turn complex infrastructure tasks into self-service experiences. Your team gets intelligent suggestions right in the configuration flow, making recipe creation faster and more reliable.

Coming in 2025: We're bringing datasources to Private Apps, enabling you to build powerful contextual autocomplete for your custom resources.

Improvements & Bug Fixes

New apps & updates

• Fixed a bug that prevented the Import & Sync of Private App resources.

• Fixed a bug that delayed the first resource sync after importing. Now your imported resources will sync immediately after importing.

Developer Ecosystem

• Fixed a bug where input schema defaults weren't being applied during Update operations in the Go SDK.

Recipes, projects, deployments

• Fixed a bug where datasources would fail silently.

• Improved search & filtering performance by batching requests to our search engine

• Added the ability to add screenshots to your recipes

• Added a new recipe summary for items in your Deploy catalog—these will show the screenshots if you’ve added them.

• Added the ability to create a share link for the published recipes in your Deploy catalog. These will require the user to have a Tempest account for now, so make sure you invite them to Tempest first.

Welcome to our very first weekly changelog. We’re going to be sharing updates weekly, so make sure to check back next week for what we got done under the influence of turkey and pumpkin pie. Also, follow us on socials for the TLDR: BlueSky, LinkedIn, and for now, Twitter.

Spotlights

Deployments and Logs

We've added two big features to help you keep tabs on your projects: Deployments and Logs viewing. Here's what's new:

Deployments

When you create a project from the Deploy catalog, you can now watch as Tempest sets up your environments and resources. Different environments work in different ways - Preview environments can spin up and clean themselves up based on PRs or branches, while Dedicated environments stick around and just get updated when you push new changes to your target branch.

Per environment deployments

Logs

We've also added project-wide logs, so you can see exactly what's happening with all of your Tempest resources. Whether things are running smoothly or hitting snags, you can see it all in one place.

Both deployments and logs work with Tempest apps and your custom Private apps.

Improvements & Bug Fixes

New apps & updates

• Kubernetes pods and replicas are now no longer imported as resources

  • These resources are generally considered ephemeral, and this fix is a short term change to keep your resources list from getting unmanageable. We’re looking at better ways to track ephemeral resources like pods.

Developer SDK & Private Apps

• Private app resources are now filterable and sortable in the Resources page

• Private app deployment logs are now available in the project view

• Private apps now support import & sync—you can now use private apps to get resources created outside of Tempest tracked, assigned, and continuously synced in Tempest

• We’ve added READMEs to all of our repos: Go SDK, CLI, OpenAPI, Protobuf, and examples

Recipes, projects, deployments

• Logs are now collected when syncing resources. View them on the resource page, or within a project the resource is associated with

• Additionally logging is now browsable within projects to give visibility into what happens during a project deployment

• Recipe version information is now displayed during recipe edit, new deployment, and project pages

• Added search, sort, and filter to the Recipes list

• Renamed Catalog in the sidebar to Deploy

• Added project classifications to search & filtering taxonomy

• Fixed a bug that would cause occasionally fire thousands of requests when infinite scrolling list views

• Fixed a bug where archived recipes could be edited

• Fixed a bug where archived projects were not accessible in the UI

• Fixed a bug where creating a new manual deployment for a project would show “undefined” for the branch to deploy

• Fixed a bug where cards in the Deploy catalog would layout incorrectly when window was resized

Resources

• The entire resource import experience has been reworked. Imported resources can now be previewed before imported.

• Resources can now be sorted & filtered by team

• Added a visual state for resources that are actively provisioning, but have not been created yet

• Resources now show their last sync time

• Fixed a bug where resource import previously showed the same 30 repeated resources

• Fixed a bug where a resource import policy could be created without required fields, resulting in absolutely nothing happening

• Fixed a bug where not all resource types were available for filtering

• Fixed a bug where the teams filter was not refreshing with the latest data in the resources list

Users & Teams

• Fixed a bug where profile photos weren’t showing in the teams list view

• Fixed a bug where organization logos were broken at the Accept Team Invite screen

Web Console

• Added Contact support to the dropdown in site navigation

• Fixed a bug where a search with zero results would break search

• Search, sort, and filter controls are now sticky on infinite scroll enabled data tables

• Default sorts across the entire web console are now sane

Security

• Logging out now logs you out