Re: [cf-dev] Update regarding Bionic Stemcells: Version 1.1 released for GA!
Daniel Jones
Congrats all. Government and enterprise users of OSS CF owe y'all a beverage! Regards, Daniel 'Deejay' Jones - Managing Director +44 (0)79 8000 9153 EngineerBetter Ltd - More than cloud platform specialists
On Fri, 7 May 2021 at 08:33, Marco Voelz via lists.cloudfoundry.org <marco.voelz=sap.com@...> wrote:
|
|
Update regarding Bionic Stemcells: Version 1.1 released for GA!
Marco Voelz
Dear Cloud Foundry community,
We've released Bionic 1.1 and removed the 'beta' flag on https://bosh.io/stemcells/ – this means: The Bionic stemcells are officially GA now!
This is a huge step for us, achieved under immense time pressure. A big thank you to everyone involved in this project: without this multi-company effort with people contributing what they can this would not have been possible and/or taken much, much longer. This community continues to amaze me and you're all excellent people!
What's next? As announced earlier, Bionic is not part of the official CFF security advisories, but the team around @Paul Warren will start to prioritze the necessary work for this. Note that this "only" impacts the way how you receive notifications about new stemcells you should be applying. We already have automation in place to release new stemcells when Canonical releases an important CVE fix for Bionic! So for the time being: watch out for new stemcells on https://bosh.io/stemcells/ and make sure to bring them into production soon.
For all outstanding and ongoing work around the Bionic stemcells, I'd like to refer you again to https://github.com/orgs/cloudfoundry/projects/4. Raise issues if you find Bionic related problems in your Cloud Foundries, help us prioritize the outstanding work, and help us getting it done by collaborating!
Feedback? Please reply to this mail on the list and/or send us a message in #bosh-bionic on Cloud Foundry slack. Don’t hesitate to DM me or send me a mail if you want to reach out privately.
Warm regards Marco
|
|
Re: [cf-dev] Update regarding Bionic Stemcells: Production readiness
Great news, thanks Chip for the update, and thanks to the community's vulnerability management team for their continued work on bionic stemcells vulns. Guillaume.
On Mon, May 3, 2021 at 3:31 PM Chip Childers <cchilders@...> wrote:
|
|
Re: [cf-dev] Update regarding Bionic Stemcells: Production readiness
Chip Childers
The community's vulnerability management team was just discussing that last week, and I believe plans to coordinate with the Bionic stemcell folks to make that happen. +Paul Warren who has been leading the vuln mgmt team to confirm. Chip Childers Executive Director Cloud Foundry Foundation
On Sun, May 2, 2021 at 4:42 PM Guillaume Berche <bercheg@...> wrote:
|
|
Re: Update regarding Bionic Stemcells: Production readiness
Marco Voelz
Dear Benjamin,
Thanks for the update on the prometheus release. Your work on ensuring compatibility with the Bionic stemcells is highly appreciated!
Warm regards Marco
From:
cf-bosh@... <cf-bosh@...> on behalf of bguttmann via lists.cloudfoundry.org <bguttmann=anynines.com@...> Hi Marco,
|
|
Re: [cf-dev] Update regarding Bionic Stemcells: Production readiness
Thanks Marco for the update and to all contributors for their efforts to reach production readiness for bionic stemcell. I wonder whether the security advisories shared at [1] would in the future similarly be shared with the cloud foundry community for bionic based stemcell vulnerabilities (in addition to the existing current bionic-based rootfs vulnerabilities).
On Wed, Apr 28, 2021 at 5:43 PM Marco Voelz via lists.cloudfoundry.org <marco.voelz=sap.com@...> wrote:
|
|
Re: Update regarding Bionic Stemcells: Production readiness
bguttmann@...
Hi Marco,
thanks for the update. Just if someone is interested we adjusted the prometheus-bosh-release to fix some minor grafana issues we saw with bionic stemcell. Afterwards we were able to successfully run concourse-bosh-release + prometheus-bosh-release with bionic stemcell. Greetings, Benjamin
|
|
Re: Update regarding Bionic Stemcells: Production readiness
Chip Childers
On Wed, Apr 28, 2021 at 1:56 PM Dr Nic Williams <drnicwilliams@...> wrote:
+1 to that, and congratulations to the team on the amazing progress on the new stemcells!
|
|
Re: Update regarding Bionic Stemcells: Production readiness
Dr Nic Williams
I concur — thanks Pivotal/VMWare for having sponsored the stemcell pipelines for so many years! Dr Nic
On Thu, 29 Apr 2021 at 1:43 am, Marco Voelz via lists.cloudfoundry.org <marco.voelz=sap.com@...> wrote:
--
Dr Nic Williams +61 437 276 076 twitter @drnic
|
|
Update regarding Bionic Stemcells: Production readiness
Marco Voelz
Dear Cloud Foundry community,
End of April is approaching fast so here's your update regarding production readiness of Bionic stemcells.
TL;DR Bionic 0.28 is considered production ready for selected IaaS layers and will be the basis for a 1.x release of the stemcell.
Context We've created a GitHub project providing more transparency and insight into the current community stemcell process: https://github.com/orgs/cloudfoundry/projects/4 Follow this if you're interested in more detailed progress and want to get involved.
What is the current state?
Feedback? Please reply to this mail on the list and/or send us a message in #bosh-bionic on Cloud Foundry slack. Don’t hesitate to DM me or send me a mail if you want to reach out privately.
Warm regards Marco
PS If you're lacking context on what this mail is all about, see https://lists.cloudfoundry.org/g/cf-dev/message/9290
|
|
Vision for CF on Kubernetes
Krannich, Bernd <bernd.krannich@...>
Hello everyone,
Over the past couple of months, we have heard questions from many of you about the future of Cloud Foundry on Kubernetes, and have been raising those questions amongst ourselves too.
During that time, we have been arriving at an initial proposal for a common way forward to present for discussion with all of you in the community. The result is the following document articulating our perspective, including the opportunities we see, the challenges with the status quo, and the refined direction we propose:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rG814raI5UfGUsF_Ycrr8hKQMo1RH9TRMxuvkgHSdLg/edit?usp=sharing
We invite everyone in the community to comment on it, and especially to give their feedback and criticism, with the goal of achieving a common vision for our whole community.
We hope that the document and the ensuing discussion will set an exciting direction for Cloud Foundry on Kubernetes for the entire Cloud Foundry ecosystem and beyond.
Thanks, Jens Huesken (SAP), Richard Johnson (IBM), Emile Kfouri (VMware), Bernd Krannich (SAP), Eric Malm (VMware), Simon Moser (IBM)
---
Bernd Krannich SAP BTP Foundational Plane Cloud Foundry and Core Experience SAP SE Dietmar-Hopp-Allee 16, 69190 Walldorf, Germany
Pflichtangaben/Mandatory Disclosure Statement: www.sap.com/impressum
Diese E-Mail kann Betriebs- oder Geschäftsgeheimnisse oder sonstige vertrauliche Informationen enthalten. Sollten Sie diese E-Mail irrtümlich erhalten haben, ist Ihnen eine Kenntnisnahme des Inhalts, eine Vervielfältigung oder Weitergabe der E-Mail ausdrücklich untersagt. Bitte benachrichtigen Sie uns und vernichten Sie die empfangene E-Mail. Vielen Dank.
This e-mail may contain trade secrets or privileged, undisclosed, or otherwise confidential information. If you have received this e-mail in error, you are hereby notified that any review, copying, or distribution of it is strictly prohibited. Please inform us immediately and destroy the original transmittal. Thank you for your cooperation.
|
|
Update regarding Bionic Stemcells
Marco Voelz
Dear Cloud Foundry community,
TL;DR: Bionic stemcells are on their way to GA. Xenial stemcells in open-source will not receive security updates after the end of April 2021. Act now and test your bosh releases and plan for migrating your systems, we’re doing it as well. Read on for context, open issues and migration caveats.
Context: As part of an earlier mail to the cf-bosh and cf-dev mailing lists, there was an announcement around work to create a BOSH stemcell for Ubuntu 18.04 (code-named “Bionic Beaver”). The background is that Ubuntu 16.04 (code-named “Xenial Xerus”) runs out of standard support by the end of April 2021. We are already publishing beta versions of Bionic stemcells on bosh.io.
As announced earlier, VMware decided to continue to support Xenial-based stemcells for their commercial distribution and is therefore transferring all open-source stemcell related work to the community – a team currently staffed by IBM and SAP. We’re stepping in to ensure that there will be a continuously maintained Bionic stemcell available for the open-source community.
What does this mean for you as users of open-source Cloud Foundry?
What is the current state?
How do you migrate from Xenial to Bionic?
How can you help? There are a number of ways you can get involved:
Feedback? Please reply to this mail on the list and/or send us a message in #bosh on Cloud Foundry slack. Don’t hesitate to DM me or send me a mail if you want to reach out privately.
Thanks in advance, Marco
|
|
CFF Technical Governance Working Group - Call for participation
Chip Childers
|
|
Re: [cf-dev] BOSH projects adopting distributed committer model
Blaine Forbush
Maya, Thank you for clarifying the stemcell update roadmap. It is very exciting to hear that work on a Bionic stemcell is resuming! We've been trying to decide when to start adopting cf-for-k8s and a Bionic stemcell would give us more wiggle room to plan our transition while cf-for-k8s matures. Blaine
On Wed, Sep 9, 2020 at 10:55 AM Maya Rosecrance <mrosecrance@...> wrote: Thanks for pointing this out, I've clarified the docs. Canonical (the company behind Ubuntu) stops free Xenial support on April 2021. There is an option for people to purchase Ubuntu's ESM support and create their own stemcells which will be patched until April 2023 but that isn't something that will be released on bosh.io. We are restarting work on Bionic and you can follow that work by searching our public backlog for stories with the "bionic" tag. https://www.pivotaltracker.com/n/projects/956238
|
|
Re: Stemcell Bump Cadence
Maya Rosecrance
On Thu, Apr 2, 2020 at 01:07 PM, Maya Rosecrance wrote:
https://lists.cloudfoundry.org/g/cf-bosh/message/2707Closing the loop on this thread. At the moment we're releasing at a 3 week cadence.
|
|
Re: [cf-dev] BOSH projects adopting distributed committer model
Maya Rosecrance
Thanks for pointing this out, I've clarified the docs. Canonical (the company behind Ubuntu) stops free Xenial support on April 2021. There is an option for people to purchase Ubuntu's ESM support and create their own stemcells which will be patched until April 2023 but that isn't something that will be released on bosh.io. We are restarting work on Bionic and you can follow that work by searching our public backlog for stories with the "bionic" tag. https://www.pivotaltracker.com/n/projects/956238
|
|
Re: [cf-dev] BOSH projects adopting distributed committer model
Blaine Forbush
Hi BOSH Team, Can you clarify what the support plan is for the Ubuntu Xenial stemcell? You've stated here that Xenial support runs out in April 2021 but on bosh.io, it states that support will continue till April 2023 (See https://bosh.io/docs/ubuntu-os/#ubuntu-xenial). Which date is correct? Blaine
|
|
Re: BOSH PMC: Quarks Project Lead call for Nominations
Vlad Iovanov <VIovanov@...>
Hi, everyone,
SUSE is nominating Mario Manno for the Quarks Project Lead in the BOSH PMC.
Mario works as an open-source developer in the platform department at SUSE. He joined the Cloud Foundry Foundation as a committer in 2017. He now works on project Quarks to create Kubernetes controllers for Cloud Foundry.
Thanks, Vlad Iovanov
From: Marco Voelz via lists.cloudfoundry.org
Sent: Thursday, June 18, 2020 9:52 AM To: cf-bosh@...; cf-dev@... Subject: [cf-bosh] BOSH PMC: Quarks Project Lead call for Nominations
Hi everyone,
Vlad Iovanov, the lead for the Quarks project within the BOSH PMC, is stepping down from the project, to focus on KubeCF and responsibilities internal to SUSE. We thank him for his service.
The Quarks team now has an opening for its project lead. Project leads must be nominated by a Cloud Foundry Foundation member. Please send nominations directly to me or in reply to this message no later than 11:59 PM PDT on June 25th.
Also, if you have any questions about the role or the nomination process, as described in the CFF governance documents (https://www.cloudfoundry.org/governance/cff_development_operations_policy/), please let me know.
Thanks and warm regards Marco Völz, BOSH PMC Lead
|
|
Re: [CAUTION] [cf-dev] BOSH PMC: Quarks Project Lead call for Nominations
Marco Voelz
Hi everyone,
SUSE is nominating Mario Manno for the Quarks Project Lead in the BOSH PMC. Mario works as an open-source developer in the platform department at SUSE. He joined the Cloudfoundry Foundation as a committer in 2017. He now works on project Quarks to create Kubernetes controllers for Cloudfoundry.
Thanks and warm regards Marco Völz, BOSH PMC Lead
From: <cf-dev@...> on behalf of Marco Voelz <marco.voelz@...>
Hi everyone,
Vlad Iovanov, the lead for the Quarks project within the BOSH PMC, is stepping down from the project, to focus on KubeCF and responsibilities internal to SUSE. We thank him for his service.
The Quarks team now has an opening for its project lead. Project leads must be nominated by a Cloud Foundry Foundation member. Please send nominations directly to me or in reply to this message no later than 11:59 PM PDT on June 25th.
Also, if you have any questions about the role or the nomination process, as described in the CFF governance documents (https://www.cloudfoundry.org/governance/cff_development_operations_policy/), please let me know.
Thanks and warm regards Marco Völz, BOSH PMC Lead
|
|
BOSH PMC: Quarks Project Lead call for Nominations
Marco Voelz
Hi everyone,
Vlad Iovanov, the lead for the Quarks project within the BOSH PMC, is stepping down from the project, to focus on KubeCF and responsibilities internal to SUSE. We thank him for his service.
The Quarks team now has an opening for its project lead. Project leads must be nominated by a Cloud Foundry Foundation member. Please send nominations directly to me or in reply to this message no later than 11:59 PM PDT on June 25th.
Also, if you have any questions about the role or the nomination process, as described in the CFF governance documents (https://www.cloudfoundry.org/governance/cff_development_operations_policy/), please let me know.
Thanks and warm regards Marco Völz, BOSH PMC Lead
|
|