State of ARC - February 2026

[yeshamavani]

Dear ARC Community,

Greetings from the ARC Team! 🌟

We’re beyond excited to bring you this month’s feature-rich update across the ARC ecosystem—designed to supercharge your development workflows and simplify cloud-native application management. From AI-Ready ARC microservices to enhanced Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) Terraform modules that automate infrastructure provisioning, and upgraded Angular libraries—this release delivers meaningful productivity gains across the board.

ARC API – Plug and Play to speed Development

1. Overridable Model Support in Controllers
   Controller classes can now seamlessly accept new LoopBack 4 model classes over the default ones.

Before:
If you wanted to add/remove properties from the default models, you had to:
Create a new model class
Copy the entire controller code because controllers were tightly coupled to the default models

Now:
Simply create a new model class with the updated properties
No need to copy or modify controller code
✅ Avoids controller duplication
✅ Makes customization significantly easier.

Thanks to Piyush Singh for making this possible.

2. Kiro-Powered Microservices
   All ARC microservices are now powered by Kiro Powers. Enabling AI agents (like in the Kiro IDE) to interact with ARC services using MCP tools, contextual guidance, and automated workflows.

Key Features

• Invoke ARC microservice APIs through AI agents.
• Get context-aware assistance for ARC-related development tasks.
• Automate workflows using predefined hooks and actions.
• Dynamically load ARC capabilities only when required, keeping AI interactions efficient.
  This makes ARC services AI-native and easier to integrate into AI-assisted development workflows.

Special thanks to Abir Ganguly for driving this through.
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ARC IaC – Infrastructure Automation at Your Fingertips

1. ArgoCD Module – GitOps for Kubernetes on AWS

The ARC Terraform module for Argo CD simplifies provisioning and managing Argo CD on Amazon EKS clusters, enabling GitOps-based continuous delivery with built-in AWS integrations and production-ready configurations for Kubernetes workloads.

Highlights

• Production-grade Argo CD deployment on EKS.
• Secure AWS access using IRSA (IAM Roles for Service Accounts).
• Automated container image updates with Argo CD Image Updater.
• SSO support including GitHub, OIDC, and SAML.

GitOps Capabilities

• Fully declarative configuration model.
• Project-scoped RBAC.
• Automated application lifecycle management.
• Multi-cluster deployments using ApplicationSets.

Thank you Debash Bora for your contributions.

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ARC Backstage - Our Developer Portal

1. Unified Insights for Your Projects

With ARC Backstage, you can now access meaningful, centralized insights across all your projects—bringing visibility into development, operations, and infrastructure in one place.

Available Integrations

• CI/CD & Development Tools
  Jenkins, Jira, APIs, Pull Requests

• Code Quality & Monitoring
  Code Quality tools, New Relic APM, Grafana, Prometheus

• AWS Services & Cost Insights
  Cost monitoring, Lambda, EC2, S3, RDS, CloudFront, OpenSearch, CodeBuild, CodePipeline

Gain a single pane of glass to track performance, monitor systems, and make data-driven decisions across your entire engineering ecosystem.

Thanks to Vishal Gupta for their contribution.

ARC UI - Enabling Better User Experiences

1. Angular Upgrade while using signals

Our Angular libraries search-client and user-onboarding-client now run on latest Angular v21, delivering better performance and stability. This release also includes Angular Signals, enabling a more modern and reactive approach to state management.

Thanks to Vaibhav Bhalla and Yesha Mavani for this contribution.

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That’s a wrap for this month’s updates! 🙂

We can’t wait to see how you leverage these powerful updates from streamlined infrastructure modules to more adaptable ARC SaaS. As always, your feedback drives our innovation. Share your thoughts, ideas, or questions.

Stay tuned for more exciting updates in the months ahead, and happy coding!

Best wishes,
The ARC Team 😎

Let’s dive right in! 🚀