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
|
|
install cf cli
lukas.klein@...
Hello,
I installed the cf cli via the windows installer, but got an issue when trying it out.
Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Kind Regards
Lukas Klein
If you are not the addressee, please inform us immediately that you have received this e-mail by mistake, and delete it. We thank you for your support.
|
|
IMPORTANT NOTICE: [ruby-buildpack] End of Support for ruby versions 2.5.x after 2021-04-23
Kashyap Vedurmudi
The first release of the Ruby buildpack after 2021-04-23 will no longer include ruby versions 2.5.x. These ruby versions will no longer be supported upstream.[1] Please migrate your Ruby apps to supported versions of ruby before that time. Note: Unless you are manually specifying a version of Ruby for the buildpack to use, or you have customized your Ruby buildpack, no action is required. As always, the buildpacks team is happy to answer questions you may have about this deprecation in the #buildpacks Slack channel[2]. [1] - https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/downloads/branches/ [2] - https://cloudfoundry.slack.com/archives/C02HWMDUQ Thanks, Kashyap Vedurmudi, Buildpacks PM
|
|
IMPORTANT NOTICE: [go-buildpack] End of Support for golang versions 1.14.x after 2021-04-23
Kashyap Vedurmudi
The first release of the Go buildpack after April 23, 2021 will no longer include Go versions 1.14.x. These Go versions will no longer be supported upstream.[1] Please migrate your Go apps to supported versions of Go before that time. Note: Unless you are manually specifying a version of Go for the buildpack to use, or you have customized your Go buildpack, no action is required. As always, the buildpacks team is happy to answer questions you may have about this deprecation in the #buildpacks Slack channel. [1] - https://golang.org/doc/devel/release.html#policy Thanks, Kashyap Vedurmudi, Buildpacks PM
|
|
Re: Community interest in osb-cmdb ?
Thanks Benjamin for your interest in this talk and the ideas shared around extended use-cases around CF marketplace! Regarding the
CF-as-IAM use-case, your understanding is correct, the idea is to periodically schedule a `cf update service` API call for every cloud subscription nested within a project subscription, when the latter may have some changes in their member list. This could potentially be osb-cmdb that supports broker opt-ins to receive the scheduled api calls. See
placeholder describing this potential feature at https://github.com/orange-cloudfoundry/osb-cmdb/issues/105
Regards, Guillaume.
On Fri, Mar 19, 2021 at 12:43 AM Benjamin Gandon <benjamin@...> wrote:
|
|
Proposal: HTTP/2 Routing in Cloud Foundry
Greg Cobb <gcobb@...>
Greetings cf-dev!
We have commenced working on a much-requested feature: adding HTTP/2 support to Gorouter. Please see the proposal below for details and let us know if you have any feedback on our approach.
Thanks!
Cloud Foundry Networking and Associates
|
|
Re: CF Application Runtime PMC: Eirini Project Lead Call for Nominations
Hi, everyone,
VMware is nominating Giuseppe Capizzi for the Eirini project lead in the Application Runtime PMC.
Giuseppe has been a core contributor to Cloud Foundry since 2017, most recently as an engineer on the Eirini team. He has also been one of the maintainers of Garden since 2018. Before working on CF, he was an engineer at Pivotal Labs.
Thanks,
Eric Malm
From: cf-dev@... <cf-dev@...> on behalf of Eric Malm via lists.cloudfoundry.org <emalm=vmware.com@...>
Sent: Friday, March 19, 2021 9:36 AM To: cf-dev@... <cf-dev@...> Subject: [cf-dev] CF Application Runtime PMC: Eirini Project Lead Call for Nominations
Hi, everyone,
Julian "Herr Julz" Skupnjak, the lead for the Eirini project within the Application Runtime PMC, is stepping down. We thank him for his service.
The Eirini team, based in Europe, 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 Friday, April
2, 2021.
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,
Eric Malm, CF Application Runtime PMC Lead
|
|
CF Application Runtime PMC: Eirini Project Lead Call for Nominations
Hi, everyone,
Julian "Herr Julz" Skupnjak, the lead for the Eirini project within the Application Runtime PMC, is stepping down. We thank him for his service.
The Eirini team, based in Europe, 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 Friday, April
2, 2021.
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,
Eric Malm, CF Application Runtime PMC Lead
|
|
Re: Community interest in osb-cmdb ?
Hi Guillaume,
toggle quoted messageShow quoted text
I’ve just finished watching the video playback of the February Community Advisory Board and I’m impressed how creative you guys have been in terms of re-using existing components for new use-cases. Using an existing cloud controller as a meta service broker, just adding a mere shim in front in order to convert incoming OSB API call to CF API calls, that’s… brilliant. The 2nd CF-as-IAM solution is very creative either. Leveraging the CF Terraform provider into a Brokerpack for the new Cloud Broker… just blew my mind. One feedback though, is about off-boardiing. In many companies, revoking authorizations when people go away is harder that granting them in the first place. This arises for many reasons, mostly non-technical. Here with CF-as-IAM, when you update the teammates list in your team CF space, that act as a template to provision authorisations on remote foundations, how do you enforce the new authorizations to the remote foundation ? Maybe you already push those with a `cf update service` API call, but as you didn’t mention this in your talk, I was curious. Anyway, congrats for those creative experiments around OSB API, and ways to manage complexity in large scale organisations, when provisioning large numbers of CF foundations. Benjamin
|
|
Re: Retiring various CF Extensions PMC projects: CF-Dev, CF-Swagger, Brooklyn Broker, SQL Server
Chris Clark
Hi Onno, Stark & Wayne recently published a blog post on running CF-for-K8s on Minikube. Perhaps this would be helpful? https://starkandwayne.com/blog/running-cf-for-k8s-on-minikube/ I don't believe there's another option besides CF-Dev for running a BOSH-based Cloud Foundry on a laptop, but I could be wrong.
On Tue, Mar 16, 2021 at 3:28 AM Brouwer, Onno (CIV) <onno.brouwer@...> wrote:
--
Chris Clark Technical Operations Manager Cloud Foundry Foundation
|
|
Re: Support for Xenial is ending in April
Thank you David, that’s good to hear.
toggle quoted messageShow quoted text
The deadline is approaching fast and people in the community could be surprised that we have so short time ahead. Others will remember the situation was nearly the same in march 2019. Anyway, we’ll do our best at Gstack to switch our BOSH Releases and provide any feedback. In the past months, I confess we’ve waited for the Bionic Stemcells to go out of beta. Now if we can help we’re glad to humbly join the effort! Best, Benjamin GANDON
|
|
Support for Xenial is ending in April
CF Community Folks - We want to make you aware that Canonical is ending community support for Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial) on April 30th, 2021. Canonical will stop releasing public patches according to their policy, so no further Xenial stemcells will be created on bosh.io after this date. The existing stemcells will remain available for download. In order to continue receiving important security updates, BOSH deployments will need to use Bionic stemcells or build custom Xenial stemcells via the Canonical Extended Support and Maintenance release channel (good through 2024). ESM is free for small-scale community installations or available for purchase through a Canonical support plan. Bionic stemcells have been available on bosh.io in beta form since October 2020, and there has been progress on Bionic validation of CF deployment over the last few months. The BOSH engineering team, mostly staffed by VMware engineering over the last year, has several items already prioritized ahead of Bionic support. These priorities mean that Bionic might not be rolled out by the end of April. I am personally delighted that several folks from IBM and SAP have stepped up to complete this effort! They are driving both the GA release for Bionic stemcells and the migration of cf-deployment to Bionic. Stay tuned for an update from this initiative shortly! -David Stevenson VMware Engineering Tech Lead
|
|
Re: Retiring various CF Extensions PMC projects: CF-Dev, CF-Swagger, Brooklyn Broker, SQL Server
Brouwer, Onno (CIV)
Hi All,
I have a group of students trying to get some experience with building apps on Cloud Foundry. Since cf-dev is being retired, is there a viable alternative they can run on their laptops and which is still in active development?
Kind Regards,
Onno Brouwer Cloud native operations engineer Rijkswaterstaat
Van: cf-dev@... <cf-dev@...>
Namens Chris Clark
Hi all,
This week, I'll be formally retiring the following projects from the Extensions PMC and moving their corresponding repositories to the cloudfoundry-attic GH org:
- CF-Dev (recently archived) - CF-Swagger (long dormant but *maybe* there is some community interest in maintaining this?) - Brooklyn Broker (long dormant) - SQL Server (long dormant)
Please reach out with any questions or objections concerning these moves. There will be more to follow in coming months.
-- Chris Clark Technical Operations Manager Cloud Foundry Foundation
|
|
Retiring various CF Extensions PMC projects: CF-Dev, CF-Swagger, Brooklyn Broker, SQL Server
Chris Clark
Hi all, This week, I'll be formally retiring the following projects from the Extensions PMC and moving their corresponding repositories to the cloudfoundry-attic GH org: - CF-Dev (recently archived) - CF-Swagger (long dormant but *maybe* there is some community interest in maintaining this?) - Brooklyn Broker (long dormant) - SQL Server (long dormant) Please reach out with any questions or objections concerning these moves. There will be more to follow in coming months. Chris Clark Technical Operations Manager Cloud Foundry Foundation
|
|
Re: CF Application Runtime PMC: KubeCF Project Lead Call for Nominations
jeff.hobbs@...
Hi all,
On behalf of SUSE, I am nominating Jan Dubois for the KubeCF Project Lead in the Application Runtime PMC. Jan has worked on running Cloud Foundry in containers since the initial public release. At first using LXC with the Cloud Foundry DEA in the Stackato fork by ActiveState, then with HPE Helion Cloud Foundry and Diego, and SUSE Cloud Foundry on Kubernetes. He's been contributing to the KubeCF project since its inception. Prior to that he was a maintainer for Perl 5 on Windows, and even longer ago living as a physicist amongst finance people. Regards, Jeff Hobbs
|
|
CF Application Runtime PMC: KubeCF Project Lead Call for Nominations
Hi, everyone,
Vlad Iovanov, the Project Lead for the KubeCF team within the Application Runtime PMC, has recently stepped down from the project. We thank him for his service.
The KubeCF 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 Wednesday, March 24, 2021.
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,
Eric Malm, CF Application Runtime PMC Lead
|
|
Re: smtpauth.mail.net.sap 504 (Gateway Timeout).
Chip Childers <cchilders@...>
You probably want to contact SAP, as this sounds like an SAP product specific issue.
On Mon, Mar 8, 2021 at 4:53 AM eduards.jass via lists.cloudfoundry.org <eduards.jass=emergn.com@...> wrote:
|
|
smtpauth.mail.net.sap 504 (Gateway Timeout).
eduards.jass@...
Running email sending via smtpauth.mail.net.sap 504 (Gateway Timeout). May be there are recommendations how diagnose/solve such problem with this service provider?
|
|
Bi-weekly Round-up: Technical Ecosystem Updates From Cloud Foundry 3-3-21
Chris Clark
CF Summit dates have been announced... looking forward to seeing you all July 21-22! The Call for Proposals is now open.
From the Last Few Weeks:
Notable Releases:
Dates To Remember (All times US Pacific):
Check the community calendar for updates and meeting details! Ecosystem and General News:
Other Notes:
(And if you are hiring, please do share the info in that channel.)
Chris Clark Technical Operations Manager Cloud Foundry Foundation
|
|
Re: CF Extensions PMC changes and Community Advisory Board (CAB) lead nominations
Julian Fischer
Hello Troy,
toggle quoted messageShow quoted text
I am also sad to see you leave. Many thanks for your service and I hope our paths will cross again. Cheers, Julian
|
|