Re: #cf Proposal to use modern and more efficient VM sizes on all IaaSes
#cf
This change has been successfully rolled out, we're saving 50-70% on our default deployments, yay! "bbl up" with newer bbl versions will change your default VM types catalog. If you run CATS, read on...
Newer versions of BBL starting with 8.4.91 will deploy more modern and efficient VM sizes by default. Along the way we encountered a problem where the default configuration is less reliable in passing CATS, which makes sense because there's a lot less hardware deployed. A change from CATS timeout_scale: 1 to timeout_scale: 2 fixes the issue and the CATS still pass when run in parallel with 12 nodes only about 25% slower (which is acceptable). We plan to fix CATS timeout defaults eventually such that this timeout scaling configuration option is not required. Using the 1AZ cf-deployment ops-file, the CATS now will always fail when run in parallel due to the smaller standardized diego cell size. To work around this, BBL v8.4.93 standardizes the "medium" (4 cores, 16GB) and "large" (8 cores, 32GB) VM sizes and introduces a "medium-highmem" (4 cores, 32GB) size. These additional standard sizes give operators and CF authors additional sizes to choose from for diego cells, such as this newly introduced ops file designed to make parallel CATS testing fast+reliable in a single-AZ minimal configuration. |
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Re: cloud foundry slack channel
Chris Clark
Hi Zac, You should be able to join the Cloud Foundry Slack workspace here: https://slack.cloudfoundry.org/ Hope that helps - please let me know if you run into any issues.
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cloud foundry slack channel
prozac <zacm30@...>
Hi Guys, I'm trying to connect to the cloud-foundry slack channel, but i cant seem to manage that. I have an account on slack, but cant seem to pass the specific channel registration. Can you suggest what do I need to sdo to be able to view/query your channel? Regards, Zac. |
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Re: TOC Election Results!
I'm honored to be joining the TOC and excited to help steward the Cloud Foundry Community in the coming year. Congratulations to the other new TOC members! And a huge thanks to the previous TOC members. |
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TOC Election Results!
Chris Clark
2022 CFF Technical Oversight Committee Election ResultsMany thanks to all the nominees and everyone who voted in the election. I’m pleased to announce our new TOC members will be:
They'll be joining Eric Malm (VMware) and Stephan Merker (SAP), whose seats will be up for election next year. Congratulations to Ruben, Beyhan and Andy! And, a huge thanks to Lee Porte, David Stevenson, and Jan von Löwenstein for all the excellent work they've done on the TOC over the last year. You can see the complete results here. Chris Clark Program Manager Cloud Foundry Foundation |
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Last Call for TOC election votes! Voting ends Friday night.
Chris Clark
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CAB Call postponed
Ram Iyengar
Dear CF Community, Postponing today's CAB call by a week to the 22nd June 2022. Regards, Ram |
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Proposal for older stemcell removal to reduce hosting costs
There is a proposal being discussed here: https://github.com/cloudfoundry/community/pull/308
Thanks in advance,
Ruben Koster |
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#cf Proposal to use modern and more efficient VM sizes on all IaaSes
#cf
Hi CF community! I have a proposal to use modern & more efficient VM types on CF, more suitable for testing and CI workloads, and I'd love feedback on it:
https://github.com/cloudfoundry/community/pull/290 Some impacts to highlight, if this rolls out as-in:
Thanks! -David Stevenson CFF TOC member / VMWare Tech Lead |
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Re: Last Call for TOC Nominations! Voting starts Friday
Chris Clark
Alright folks! Voting is now open, running through June 17th. Read the full details here in the election guide. Then cast your votes!
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Last Call for TOC Nominations! Voting starts Friday
Chris Clark
Hi all, If there are any outstanding nominations for the TOC, please get those in by 5pm Pacific Time today. Voting will go live at midnight tonight (also PT), and run for two weeks. Read the full details here in the election guide. View the candidates and check your voter eligibility here in the election app, and cast your votes starting tomorrow. Chris Clark Program Manager Cloud Foundry Foundation |
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Re: Call for Nominations: 2022 Cloud Foundry TOC Election
Chris Clark
Hi all,
Just a reminder to get in any nominations for TOC candidates before next Thursday, June 2. And, one procedural update: we'll be using Elekto to handle the voting process this year, in place of the methods we used last year. This should yield a cleaner, simpler process, and voters will be able to authenticate using their GitHub ID. We'll have more detailed instructions on this once voting begins next Thursday. |
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Call for Nominations: 2022 Cloud Foundry TOC Election
Chris Clark <cclark@...>
Call for Nominations: Cloud Foundry Technical Oversight Committee. Last June, the inaugural Cloud Foundry TOC was elected. We’re now ready to elect three new members to this committee. To recap, last year, two TOC members were elected to two-year terms, and three were elected to one-year terms, with the understanding that moving forward, all TOC terms will be for two years. Of the initial five TOC members, Eric Malm (VMware), and Stephan Merker (SAP), will now continue on for a second year, and the remaining three seats will be determined by this election. Special thanks to our inaugural TOC! That would be Stephan, Eric, David Stevenson (VMware), Jan von Löwenstein (SAP), and TOC lead Lee Porte (Cloud.UK). Adopting a new system of government rarely goes as smoothly as this went, and a lot has been accomplished in the last year. Huzzah. Please note: only two representatives from a given company are eligible to serve on the TOC at one time. So, no more than one candidate each from SAP and VMware are eligible to win a seat during this election, and no entity can elect more than two representatives. Instructions for Nominating: Nominate someone for the TOC by submitting a GitHub Issue using this template. Nominations must be submitted by June 2nd. Feel free to nominate a colleague (asking them first is recommended), or yourself. Election Timeline:
Eligible Voters: Any individual who has contributed to CFF projects or technical working groups in the 12 months prior to the election is eligible to vote in the TOC election. Next week, a list of eligible voters will be published. If anyone feels like they have not been included in that list, but should have been, please submit an issue using this template. On June 2, email ballots will be sent to all voters on the list. Likewise, if you do not receive an email, but are on the list, please submit an issue using the above template. For any additional questions, please see the 2022 Voting Guide or reach out directly. Chris Clark Program Manager Cloud Foundry Foundation |
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CAB Call
Ram Iyengar
Hey CF community! The CAB call scheduled for today has been moved to May 25th 2022 (at the same time). This is owing to a scheduling conflict, and also because a lot of folks will be paying attention to KubeCon EU. We have a great agenda lined up for next week. So, please remember to to tune in to the call next week. See y'all then! Cheers, Ram Iyengar Developer Advocate, Cloud Foundry Foundation |
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Re: Announcing dynamic ASGs!
Nice work, congrats guys!
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Announcing dynamic ASGs!
Amelia Downs
Hello everyone,
🎉 In cf
deployment 20.0.0 dynamic ASGs are now available and enabled by default.
🌧 Before dynamic ASGs, users had to restart their apps for ASG changes to take effect.
☀️ Now with dynamic ASGs, users no longer have to restart their apps for ASG changes to take effect. Now these changes happen
dynamically!
🙌 A HUGE shout out to Geoff Franks, Maria Shaldibina, and the whole networking team for making this happen.
🙋♀️ If you have any questions or comments, feel free to respond to this email or find us in the Cloud Foundry slack
#cf-for-vms-networking channel.
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CAB call on Wed 20 th April
Ram Iyengar
Hey folks, The monthly Cloud Foundry CAB call is scheduled for Wed 20 th April. The invite is available on the community calendar. Our topic is going to be CF on Kubernetes. I've invited some folks from the Working Group to join us live. Also featuring on the call is a demo component, where I will install the tool on a GKE cluster and demo a cf push. Please join us all and take a peek at what the future direction holds! Hope to seee you there. Cheers, Ram Iyengar Developer Advocate Cloud Foundry Foundation |
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Re: Announcing encrypted container-to-container networking
Very interesting, thank you for the update Amelia !
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Announcing encrypted container-to-container networking
Amelia Downs
Hello everyone,
🎉 This is a (slightly belated) announcement about a platform enabled way to do encrypted container-to-container (c2c) networking.
🔐 As of diego release 2.59.0 and cf-deployment 18.0.0, there is now a new container port exposed to allow encrypted container-to-container networking. To take advantage of this feature you will need to connect to port 61443 when doing c2c.
📎 See more in the docs
here.
🙋♀️. If you have any questions or comments, feel free to respond to this email or find us in the Cloud Foundry Slack
#diego channel.
Thanks,
The App Platform Runtime Working Group
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CAB call, March 16 2022
Ram Iyengar
Hello! Update about the Cloud Foundry CAB call to be held on Wednesday, March 16th – We will be hosting Onno Brouwer and the conversation will be centered around Open Service Broker API. What is the discussion scheduled to be? Onno and their team are using Cloud Foundry and Kubernetes along with OSBAPI. The Service Brokers allow their developers make use of services outside these platforms. Their (impressive) lineup of brokers include Concourse provisioning, Sharepoint connectors, PostgreSQL integrations, etc. They have a lot of success and the project itself is a wonderful technical accomplishment. Onno also has some questions that he would like to air freely. These include – activity around OSBAPI, alternatives, and others. Who is Onno? Onno is a senior advisor at Rijkswaterstaat in The Netherlands, where he operates their cloud native platforms since December 2015. Onno has over 25 years of software engineering experience, designing and building software in various languages and environments. His current interest cloud native applications architecture and design. Onno is an experienced speaker, and has presented internal workshops and trainings for topics such as Cloud Foundry, networking, traffic analysis, and security. Onno also held talks at past Cloud Foundry summits in Basel and The Hague, KubeCon, etc. The community calls are a great way to keep up with what's happening in the Cloud Foundry community. The success of the call is tied closely to the support we get in the form of participation. It would help greatly if you can take part in the discussions that happen. Also note - due to Daylight savings, clocks have moved back by an hour for some. Please consult the Community Calendar for the accurate slot. Cheers, Ram Iyengar Developer Advocate, CFF |
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