CloudFoundry BOSH

Hello CF community! Earlier in the year, the CFF's board of directors asked a small group of past and current technical community contributors to do an assessment of how our open source community was operating and to make recommendations ... [More] for improvements to the governance process. That group has been meeting for a couple of months, and saw an opportunity to build a healthier and more dynamic open governance environment for the projects by rethinking the PMC Council / PMC / Project structure, and approaching governance closer to the Kubernetes, Istio and KNative community models. The time has come to take the small group's initial ideas and open up the discussion to anyone in the community that cares to participate. You can find the work here: https://github.com/cloudfoundry/community There are two ways that anyone can get involved in this effort: The work is centered in GitHub, so feel free to review everything, comment on PRs and issues, propose your own PRs, open issues, etc... as the work continues to progress. We welcome anyone with an interest in helping to evolve the CF community's project level decision making to join a weekly call on Friday's at 4PM GMT (11 AM US Eastern, 8 AM US Pacific). I have put the meeting on the CFF community calendar, and you can join us for the first call on Friday, December 4th! We're looking forward to hearing from all of you or seeing you during the calls. Thanks! Chip Childers Executive Director Cloud Foundry Foundation [Less]

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 Thu, Apr 2, 2020 at 01:07 PM, Maya Rosecrance wrote: https://lists.cloudfoundry.org/g/cf-bosh/message/2707 Closing the loop on this thread. At the moment we're releasing at a 3 week cadence.

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 ... [More] 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 [Less]

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

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 ... [More] works on project Quarks to create Kubernetes controllers for Cloud Foundry.   Thanks, Vlad Iovanov   [Less]

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 ... [More] project Quarks to create Kubernetes controllers for Cloudfoundry.   Thanks and warm regards Marco Völz, BOSH PMC Lead   From: on behalf of Marco Voelz Reply to: "cf-dev@..." Date: Thursday, 18. June 2020 at 08:54 To: "cf-bosh@..." , "cf-dev@..." Subject: [CAUTION] [cf-dev] 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 [Less]

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 ... [More] 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 [Less]

Sharing this with you all. TL;DR:  Event Dates: June 24 and June 25 (half-day events) CFP closes: May 1 (11:59PM US Pacific) Event URL: https://www.cloudfoundry.org/events/summit/na-virtual-2020/ Registration: ... [More] https://www.cloudfoundry.org/events/summit/na-virtual-2020/registration/ Schedule-at-a-glance: (see picture; times indicated are in US Central time) 100% Discount code for our community (please share with folks in your organizations): CFNA20CON Please don’t hesitate to post your question here or reach out to me or @chipchilders directly (slack or email) if you have any questions/suggestions/feedback.  Please read Chip's email below for more details. -- Swarna Podila (she/her) Senior Director, Community | Cloud Foundry Foundation [email protected] @ skpodila You can read more about pronouns here, or please ask if you'd like to find out more. ---------- Forwarded message ---------From: Chip Childers <cchilders@...>Date: Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 9:19 AMSubject: [cf-dev] Cloud Foundry Summit Goes Cloud NativeTo: CF Developers Mailing List <cf-dev@...> It’s official, folks: Cloud Foundry Summit is going virtual. We’ve moved the Austin, Texas, event online to keep you — our fantastic community — safe and healthy during this unforeseen time. What was initially a one-day Summit will now be two half-days devoted to our developer and contributor communities so you can comfortably engage with presentations without spending the entire day in front of your computer. We know this is a sea change for a community so fiercely devoted to quality in-person discussion. I look forward to our Summits every year, and I am also disappointed that I won’t get to see you all in person. But we remain committed to providing you with the same opportunities for collaboration and education that we’ve offered at all of our in-person Summits, even if the setting is your home office (or kitchen table). We are working with our inimitable events team to design a virtual Summit that caters not only to the specific interests of our community, but to the abnormal circumstances in which we find ourselves. Cloud Foundry Virtual Summit will take place on Wednesday, June 24th and Thursday, June 25th for several hours each day, with sessions abbreviated to keep you engaged and networking opportunities meant to mimic the beloved “hallway track” at Summit. You’ll find special events like the Diversity Luncheon, Hands-on labs and Community Awards scheduled as usual — just in a different format than you’ve previously experienced.  Contributors can register here for free using this code: CFNA20CON  You’ll also notice that we’ve reopened the CFP now that Summit is going virtual, as the format will be a bit different. Check out the CFP submission process here and note that the new deadline is Friday, May 1st. You can submit a talk to the Developer Experience track, the Contributor track or the Diversity track. Feel free to reach out for CFP guidance by tagging @cfp-help in #summit on Cloud Foundry slack. I imagine this news may not come as a surprise given how many events have moved online for the next few months, but I know it’s still a disappointment for our tight-knit community. I want to make sure that you get to shape this event to be exactly what you need it to be as we venture together into unknown territory. What features do you want to see in a virtual event? What pieces from Cloud Foundry Summit are a must-have? What tools have you used at online events that you loved, and what types of sessions most engaged you? This is feedback we need and want to make sure we make this new virtual summit the best possible experience for you — our community. Please email me or send me a DM on Cloud Foundry slack @chipchilders to share your learnings from other events and how we can serve you. In the meantime, I hope you are staying safe at home and doing what you need to feel mentally, emotionally and physically healthy during this time. I appreciate your flexibility and understanding around this decision, and I look forward to seeing you from a safe distance at Summit! Chip Childers Executive Director Cloud Foundry Foundation [Less]

Sharing this with you all. TL;DR:  Event Dates: June 24 and June 25 (half-day events) CFP closes: May 1 (11:59PM US Pacific) Event URL: https://www.cloudfoundry.org/events/summit/na-virtual-2020/ Registration: ... [More] https://www.cloudfoundry.org/events/summit/na-virtual-2020/registration/ Schedule-at-a-glance: (see picture; times indicated are in US Central time) 100% Discount code for our community (please share with folks in your organizations): CFNA20CON Please don’t hesitate to post your question here or reach out to me or @chipchilders directly (slack or email) if you have any questions/suggestions/feedback.  Please read Chip's email below for more details. -- Swarna Podila (she/her) Senior Director, Community | Cloud Foundry Foundation [email protected] @ skpodila You can read more about pronouns here, or please ask if you'd like to find out more. ---------- Forwarded message ---------From: Chip Childers <cchilders@...>Date: Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 9:19 AMSubject: [cf-dev] Cloud Foundry Summit Goes Cloud NativeTo: CF Developers Mailing List <cf-dev@...> It’s official, folks: Cloud Foundry Summit is going virtual. We’ve moved the Austin, Texas, event online to keep you — our fantastic community — safe and healthy during this unforeseen time. What was initially a one-day Summit will now be two half-days devoted to our developer and contributor communities so you can comfortably engage with presentations without spending the entire day in front of your computer. We know this is a sea change for a community so fiercely devoted to quality in-person discussion. I look forward to our Summits every year, and I am also disappointed that I won’t get to see you all in person. But we remain committed to providing you with the same opportunities for collaboration and education that we’ve offered at all of our in-person Summits, even if the setting is your home office (or kitchen table). We are working with our inimitable events team to design a virtual Summit that caters not only to the specific interests of our community, but to the abnormal circumstances in which we find ourselves. Cloud Foundry Virtual Summit will take place on Wednesday, June 24th and Thursday, June 25th for several hours each day, with sessions abbreviated to keep you engaged and networking opportunities meant to mimic the beloved “hallway track” at Summit. You’ll find special events like the Diversity Luncheon, Hands-on labs and Community Awards scheduled as usual — just in a different format than you’ve previously experienced.  Contributors can register here for free using this code: CFNA20CON  You’ll also notice that we’ve reopened the CFP now that Summit is going virtual, as the format will be a bit different. Check out the CFP submission process here and note that the new deadline is Friday, May 1st. You can submit a talk to the Developer Experience track, the Contributor track or the Diversity track. Feel free to reach out for CFP guidance by tagging @cfp-help in #summit on Cloud Foundry slack. I imagine this news may not come as a surprise given how many events have moved online for the next few months, but I know it’s still a disappointment for our tight-knit community. I want to make sure that you get to shape this event to be exactly what you need it to be as we venture together into unknown territory. What features do you want to see in a virtual event? What pieces from Cloud Foundry Summit are a must-have? What tools have you used at online events that you loved, and what types of sessions most engaged you? This is feedback we need and want to make sure we make this new virtual summit the best possible experience for you — our community. Please email me or send me a DM on Cloud Foundry slack @chipchilders to share your learnings from other events and how we can serve you. In the meantime, I hope you are staying safe at home and doing what you need to feel mentally, emotionally and physically healthy during this time. I appreciate your flexibility and understanding around this decision, and I look forward to seeing you from a safe distance at Summit! Chip Childers Executive Director Cloud Foundry Foundation [Less]