Lagoon V2.20 Release: New Features and Enhancements

We are excited to announce the release of Lagoon V2.20. This release includes a series of new features and enhancements in our open source application delivery platform that improves user management, security, and onboarding efficiency. We designed the updates to help you manage your environments more effectively and securely, ensuring you can focus on what matters most: Making your business thrive! 

What’s New in Lagoon V2.20

For this release, our Lagoon team focused strongly on how we could make your life as an end-user easier and support your business in having even safer user management.

Enhanced User Roles and Permissions

Platform Viewer Role

By granting the ability to view all organizations, projects, and environments in Lagoon without modification rights, the Platform Viewer role allows for safer access and better oversight. This feature enables teams running their own Lagoon to downgrade some users from Platform Admin to Platform Viewer, reducing the risk of accidental changes while maintaining transparency across the platform. This streamlined user management approach enhances security controls and enforces the principle of least privilege, ensuring that only authorized users can make changes.
 

💡 Upgrade your security and management processes today by leveraging the new Platform Viewer role to reduce risks and maintain transparency across your teams.

Organization Admin Role

The Organization Admin role enables Lagoon users to manage projects, groups, and users within their organization while restricting the ability to alter organization owners/admins. This role provides a more granular permission structure for better scoping and control, improving organizational governance and security. It also allows for delegated administration without compromising overall control.

💡 Enhance organizational control with the new Organization Admin role and delegate responsibilities securely and efficiently.

Improved Security with SSH Key Management

SSH Key Storage and Handling

Security is significantly enhanced with tracking of the “user last accessed” and “SSH key last used” timestamps, along with improvements in SSH key handling through a sidecar approach. The new APIs now support all standard key types, including FIDO/U2F keys, and allow for more flexible SSH key usage. This increases security through improved SSH key management, reducing the risk of unauthorized access and enhancing compliance with security best practices.

💡 Strengthen your security protocols with our advanced SSH key management features and protect your system against unauthorized access.

Streamlined User Onboarding

Inviting New Users

New users can now be invited to Lagoon when they are added to groups in organizations, eliminating the need for pre-existing user accounts. This function simplifies the team onboarding process, making it faster and more efficient. The result is accelerated user onboarding, allowing teams to get new members up and running quickly and efficiently.

💡 Simplify your onboarding process today and get your new team members started quickly and efficiently.

Our latest release significantly enhances user roles, permissions, security, and onboarding processes. These updates are designed to help you manage your environments more effectively and securely. We are committed to providing a platform that supports your business needs and growth by streamlining user management, improving security protocols, and accelerating onboarding.

Ready to experience these new features and improvements? Contact us today, or if you’d like to try out our open source application and delivery platform powered by Lagoon, start a free trial.