Release 1.1.0 — Helm block, environment variable expansion and Cilium ingress

Version 1.0.0 laid the groundwork with PostgreSQL backups, autoscaling and GPU support. Version 1.1.0 brings a long-awaited feature — deploying Helm charts directly from Fransys — along with practical improvements to environment variable management and platform stability.

Helm block

You can now deploy Helm charts directly in your Fransys project. In practice, anything distributed as a Helm chart — third-party tools, open source services, custom configurations — can now sit alongside your other blocks in the same interface.

This opens the door to richer stacks without leaving Fransys: add Metabase, RabbitMQ, Grafana or any other available Helm chart, and manage it in the same place as the rest of your infrastructure.

The Helm block is available on request — contact the team to have it enabled on your account.

Environment variable expansion

You can now reference one environment variable inside another. It looks like a small addition, but it changes how you manage configuration day to day.

The most telling example is database connection URLs. Rather than duplicating the host, port, user, password and database name in one long connection string, you define each value once and build your URL from those variables:

DATABASE_URL = postgres://${DB_USER}:${DB_PASSWORD}@${DB_HOST}:${DB_PORT}/${DB_NAME}

If the password changes, you update it in one place. No more copy-paste errors between variables, and no more inconsistencies between environments.

Cilium ingress

The ingress controller moves from Nginx (deprecated) to Cilium. This is an infrastructure change your applications will not notice, but it provides a more modern, faster and actively maintained foundation for routing traffic to your services. The migration is transparent — there is nothing to change on your side.

Stability improvements

This release also includes a series of fixes and optimisations across the whole platform. Nothing visibly changes, but the day-to-day experience is more reliable.

Want to try the Helm block or the new variables? Log in to your Fransys workspace, or create a free account with €5 of credit included.