2023.4.1

Release date: 25 April 2024

Changes to license-related tenant limitations

If you have a license that includes any of the following services, you will be happy to know that, upon license update, they can now be enabled on 100 tenants each:

• Automation Hub
• Process Mining
• Test Manager
• Insights

Release date: 27 June 2023

What is Automation Suite on EKS/AKS

We first introduced Automation Suite in 2021 as an on-premises alternative to Automation Cloud. Ever since then, we've been continuously working on improving Automation Suite so that you can deploy the full UiPath® automation platform on Linux bare-metal on virtual machines in your own data center or public cloud.

However, software solutions are not always one size fits all, and after carefully listening to your feedback, we understood the need for a new Automation Suite flavor. Meet Automation Suite on EKS/AKS, which allows you to deploy the platform to your Kubernetes clusters in Amazon Web Services (Elastic Kubernetes Service) or Microsoft Azure (Azure Kubernetes Service).

What is Automation Suite on EKS/AKS

Automation Suite on EKS/AKS brings an entirely new deployment architecture, infrastructure management, installation and configuration experience, and approach to cluster management. On the other hand, in terms of platform admin management, APIs, and UI, things remain unchanged.

In a nutshell, we offer multiple paths to the same destination. Since each Automation Suite flavor caters to different business needs, we will continue to maintain both of them. While we aim to ensure feature parity between these flavors, there are some differences between them.

For more details, see Cross-deployment model feature comparison.

Why a new Automation Suite flavor

The reason behind it all is that some of you require extensive flexibility and control over your infrastructure, and Automation Suite on EKS/AKS provides just that.

The Automation Suite on EKS/AKS stack is split into three layers:

• UiPath® managed - we manage the UiPath® services and other required components.

• Optional to install - think of it as the middle ground as this layer is made of components that we can install and manage for you, but which you can also take the reins of.

• Customer managed - you bring your Kubernetes, cache, and data source infrastructure.

This translates into shared responsibility between you and us, with the main advantage of this model being that you can leverage your existing processes to manage your infrastructure resources.

For more details, see High-level infrastructure and Responsibility matrix.

New installation and configuration experience

uipathctl is the single unified CLI tool that most operations revolve around in Automation Suite on EKS/AKS. You can run it on Linux, macOS, and Windows platforms to check prerequisites in your environment, install, configure, upgrade, or manage Automation Suite. For details, see uipathctl.

New standalone to Automation Suite migration

If you are considering migrating from standalone Orchestrator to Automation Suite, we have good news for you. We have considerably improved the migration tool used in previous Automation Suite versions.

For details, see Migration options.

How to navigate the docs

Here are some tips and tricks on navigating the Automation Suite docs:

• The Automation Suite Release Notes Guide is split into two chapters, each for an Automation Suite flavor.

• Each Automation Suite flavor has a dedicated installation guide: Automation Suite Installation Guide and Automation Suite on EKS/AKS Installation Guide.

• The Automation Suite Admin Guide and Automation Suite API Guide are shared between the two Automation Suite flavors, with all the content being identical.

Known issues

• Erratum - added October 17, 2024

  In a proxy environment, if the proxy server uses the same port as the TCP port of any other service in the Istio service mesh, such as port 8080, pods cannot communicate with the FQDN. The issue causes the following error:

  System.Net.Http.HttpRequestException: The proxy tunnel request to proxy 'http://<proxyFQDN>:8080/' failed with status code '404'.

  To fix the issue, see Automation Suite on EKS/AKS troubleshooting.

• Erratum - added August 14, 2024

  For AI Center and Task Mining, the ListBucket API prerequisite check fails when using an external objectstore. However, AI Center and Task Mining do not use the ListBucket API permission. We removed the unnecessary check in Automation Suite 2023.4.8.

• Erratum - added June 25, 2024

  Following an Automation Suite on AKS installation or upgrade, the backup setup does not work because of a failure to connect to Azure Government. You can fix the issue by taking the steps described in Automation Suite on EKS/AKS troubleshooting.

• Erratum: Added April 19, 2024

  An upgrade known issue affecting AKS causes Automation Suite to fail. When trying to upgrade AKS, the argocd-redis-ha-server pod is put in error state. If you encounter this issue, use the workaround documented in the Troubleshooting chapter. The issue no longer occurs in Automation Suite 2023.4.6.

• Erratum: Added November 6, 2023

  In versions 2023.4.0 through 2023.4.2, if you have an Active Directory (AD) integrated environment, you will see sporadic failures from the product leading to the IIS application pool restarting. This issue has been fixed in version 2023.4.3, but it still affects the aforementioned versions. As such, if you use AD, we highly recommend that you directly install or upgrade to 2023.4.3. Otherwise, you will encounter functionality issues.

• If you already use Automation Suite, it is currently not possible to migrate to Automation Suite on EKS/AKS.

• uipathctl binaries on the Windows and macOS versions are currently not signed with the uipath.com certificate. You may get a warning when you try to download or run uipathctl on Windows on macOS.

• The health check on Automation Suite robots may fail. The "[POD_UNHEALTHY] Pod asrobots-migrations-cvzfn in namespace uipath is in Failed status" message may show up in your health check logs after manually installing Automation Suite on AKS. See the Troubleshooting section for more details.

• When deploying AI Center in Automation Suite on your AKS/EKS clusters, if you decide not to install Prometheus (either bundled with Automation Suite or your own) or if you install your own Prometheus in a namespace different than monitoring, the following features are not supported:

  • Prediction count for ML Skills: it would always show 0
  • Automatic undeployment of idle skills

Bundling details

Product versions

To find out what has changed on each Automation Suite product, visit the following links.

If the product is greyed out, this new Automation Suite version does not bring any changes to it.

DISCOVER	BUILD	MANAGE	ENGAGE
Automation Hub 2023.4.1	Automation Ops 2023.4.1	AI Center 2023.4.1	Action Center 2023.4.1
Task Mining 2023.4.1	AI Computer Vision 2023.4.2	Insights 2023.4.1	Apps 2023.4.1
Process Mining 2023.4.1	Document Understanding 2023.4.1	Orchestrator 2023.4.1
		Test Manager 2023.4.1
		Data Service 2023.4.1

Internal third-party component versions

For the Kubernetes versions that each Automation Suite version supports, see Kubernetes compatibility.

This Automation Suite release bundles the following internal components:

Component	Version
Istio	1.17.2 (Distroless)
ArgoCD	v2.5.10
Prometheus	v2.39.1
Grafana	9.5.2
Fluentd & Fluent-bit	logging-operator : 4.1.0 logging-operator-logging : 4.1.0
Gatekeeper	3.11.0
Cert-Manager	v1.11.2
Velero	3.1.6

Migration tool version

The migration tool version you need depends on the standalone products you plan to migrate and the targeted Automation Suite version. For more details, see Migration compatibility matrix.

For instructions on migrating a standalone product to the current version of Automation Suite, see Full migration.