What’s New on Astro
Explore the latest product enhancements designed to elevate your data orchestration capabilities.
July 2024 Release Updates
This Astro Platform Release introduces a range of powerful new features aimed at unifying workflows, improving pipeline resilience, and simplifying infrastructure management.
Unified Workflows with dbt on Astro
Provide a seamless and integrated experience for deploying and managing dbt on Astro
dbt deploys (NEW)
Manage and deploy dbt and Airflow code directly from Astro to simplify collaboration and accelerating project delivery
Cosmos by Astronomer
Created in 2023, Cosmos provides complete visibility of your dbt tasks within Airflow.
Improved Pipeline Resilience
Enable advanced monitoring and automatic worker healing to reduce manual intervention and enhance system reliability.
Universal Metrics Export
Achieve centralized observability by monitoring the health, reliability, and performance of your data ecosystem in real-time.
Automated Infrastructure Provisioning and Management
Scalable solutions for infrastructure management and provisioning, simplifying infrastructure management while ensuring compliance.
Customer Managed Workload Identity on AWS
Assign and manage AWS IAM roles, enhancing security and simplifying access management across multiple deployments.
Astro Terraform Provider
Simplify the management of Airflow infrastructure, offering automation capabilities that ensure consistent, reproducible, and scalable deployments.
Interested in learning about our previous platform releases? Take a look below.
May 2024 Astro Release Updates
This Astro Platform Release introduced enhancements aimed at bolstering governance at scale and across environments, accelerating innovation, and fortifying security of your data platform.
Governance at Scale
Offering deep insights into platform usage, performance, and cost optimization.
Astro Organizational Dashboards
Access crucial data dashboards, facilitating strategic actions and informed decision-making, optimizing for performance and pattern recognition
Astro API
Empowers customers with control and automation, mitigating risks associated with manual processes and ensuring seamless operations at scale.
Innovation
Accelerate innovation by streamlining code deployment processes, reducing deployment times, and enhancing collaboration.
GitHub Integration
Users can test DAG changes and promote code to production with Astro’s Git-based CI/CD integration
Security
Fortifying Astro’s security by introducing Custom Deployment Roles and Customer Managed Workload Identity capabilities, ensuring secure, compliant access to data services.
Custom deployment roles
Create custom roles to match their specific needs and ensure their data remains secure. The solution integrates with Single Sign-On and SCIM, previously available but now part of a unified system for more granular access management.
Customer Managed Identity on GCP and Azure
Use existing workload identities (in GCP, Azure) across multiple deployments, and streamlines migrations by leveraging pre-existing permissions.
