Each week, the CMS Cloud program provides a list of upcoming changes, maintenance windows, and updates to help customers build awareness and plan effectively and summarizes changes from the previous week.
This newsletter includes:
Completed change summary for the week of 4/11/2025
To learn details about previous changes please go to the News and Updates section on cloud.cms.gov. (Secure Access required)
For Patching and Gold Image release schedule please view :Patching and Gold Image Release Calendar - 2025
4/26/2025 - Enterprise Testing Services Maintenance
Summary:
In order to keep up to date with the latest versions and security advisories, the CMS Hybrid Cloud team will be performing maintenance updates on Enterprise Testing tools.
Actions we are taking
- Update Selenium Box Hub and Executors with the latest Amazon Linux 2023 Gold Image for CMS Cloud.
When is this happening?
Start time: Saturday 4/26/2025 at 9:00 a.m. ET
End time: Saturday 4/26/2025 at 11:59 a.m. ET
Who will be impacted?
All AWS Commercial and GovCloud customers of Selenium Box.
What is the impact?
Customers should expect downtime for the service as instances are restarted within the maintenance window.
4/26/2025 - Restart Production and Non-Prod HEC Servers
Summary:
In order to keep the environment performing well, the CMS Hybrid Cloud team will conduct maintenance on the Cloud instances of the Http Event Collector (HEC) infrastructure every Saturday, starting March 8th from 10 a.m. ET to 11:30 p.m. ET through May 31st.
Actions we are taking:
- Restart Production and Non-Prod HEC Services
When is this happening?
Start Time: Saturday, 4/26/2025 at 10:00 a.m. ET
End Time: Saturday, 4/26/2025 at 11:30 p.m. ET
Restarts will be every Saturday from 10:00 a.m. ET through 11:30 p.m. ET until the End date/time.
Who will be impacted?
There is no expected impact to users.
What is the impact?
Restart Production and Non-Prod HEC Services - There is no anticipated downtime or impacts to the logging ingest process.
4/26/2025 - DevOps Services Maintenance
Summary:
CMS Hybrid Cloud team will be performing maintenance updates on its DevOps tools.
Actions we are taking
- Upgrade CloudBees Jenkins CI, Jfrog, ans SonarQube
- Upgrade nodes to latest EKS gold image for CMS Cloud Jfrog, CBJ and SonarQube
- Upgrade EKS add-ons and supporting components
When is this happening?
Start time: Saturday, 4/26/2025 at 9:00 p.m. ET
End time: Sunday, 4/27/2025 at 1:00 a.m. ET
Who will be impacted?
All AWS Commercial and GovCloud customers of CloudBees, JFrog, and SonarQube.
What is the impact?
Customers should expect a short downtime for each service as instances are restarted within the maintenance window.
Enterprise Testing Services Notification
Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) is upgrading the Quality Center (QC) tool from Version 12 to Version 17. The upgrade and cutover process will begin in April 2025, with fully automated, application-by-application data migration with no impacts to existing data on the legacy server. A Product Owner (PO) from the Enterprise Testing Services (ETS) team will reach out to Application Development Organizations (ADOs) to discuss individualized scheduling.
No action is needed at this time. If your ADO is affected by this migration, you will be contacted by the ETS team PO beginning in April to review your schedule and plan your individual migration. If you have questions about the ALM upgrade, please contact your assigned Hosting Coordinator.
Need help? We are here to support you.
If you have any questions, don't hesitate to reach out to your assigned Hosting Coordinator. CMS IT Support can be reached via cloudsupport@cms.hhs.gov, or call (800) 562-1963, and is documented here at Support Page on cloud.cms.gov.
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