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.