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CMS Cloud Weekly change newsletter 06/20/2024

CMS Cloud
Weekly change newsletter 06/20/2024

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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 06/06/2024 [ #CC ]
* 06/20/2024 - Non-Marketplace SSM patching - DEV/TEST/IMPL [ #NM-SSM ]
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06/20/2024 - Marketplace SSM Patching - DEV/TEST [ #M-SSM ]


* 06/21/2024 - DevOps Services Maintenance [ #DevOps ]
* 06/23/2024 - BigFix Endpoint Config Updates- Phase 1 [ #BigFix ]
* 06/26/2024 - Marketplace SSM Patching - IMPL [ #mssm_impl ]
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06/26/2024 - Non-Marketplace SSM patching - PROD [ #nmssm_prod ]


* 06/27/2024 - batCAVE Infrastructure Maintenance - PROD [ #batCAVE ]

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06/06/2024 Completed changes

* 06/13/2024 - Update Cloud Splunk HEC Servers [ #Splunk ]
* 06/14/2024 - CMS Cloud Monthly Gold Image Release [ #GI ]

To learn details about previous changes please go to the News and Updates [ https://cloud.cms.gov/News ] section on cloud.cms.gov and select the topic "Changes". (VPN required)

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06/20/2024 - Non-Marketplace SSM patching - DEV/TEST/IMPL

*Summary*


* Non-Marketplace DEV/TEST/IMPL
* SSM Linux & Windows Vulnerability Patching

*Actions we are taking: *

As part of our normal patching, the CMS Cloud team will apply the latest Windows and Linux patches on Thursday, 06/20/2024 at 5:00 p.m. ET.  The week's patches will impact the DEV/TEST/IMPL environment for the affected Non-Marketplace applications noted below.

*When is this happening?  (Date adjusted for the Holiday)*

Start Time: Thursday, 06/20/2024 at 5:00 p.m. ET 

End Time:  Thursday, 06/20/2023 at 11:00 p.m ET

*Who will be impacted? *

Reboot - CEDAR, Million Hearts, FFSDCS, RASS, OC Base- eLDAP, SC CLIA, NTP LMS, Spott MACBIS, MDP, OC Base- WNMG, NEIL/HRES, OC Base- EWST, MacFin, eAPD Hi-C, OC Base- CMS Cloud Legacy, OC Base- DevSecOps SecDevOps, iServ, MDP, PECOS2.0, SEI, NDW, OC Base- PWSS, TRA, CMS ARTS, MCIM, RAD Analysis Tools, MCIM, Perm,  CMS Cloud - CRE, CMS Cloud - Enterprise Agile Tools, CMS Cloud tamer, CMS Cloud - CARD, CMS Cloud - ECS Fargate, CMS Cloud - Direct Connect, CMS Cloud - Jfrog SonarCube, CMS Cloud - DNS Prod, CMS Cloud - SRE, CMS Cloud - Governance 2.0, MEOWx, CMS Cloud - CloudBees Jenkins, CMS Cloud - CET, CMS Cloud - DevSecOps, CMS Cloud - Utilities, CMS Cloud - Testrail, CMS Cloud - CircleCI, CMS Cloud - Sam GSS Security GovCloud, SWIFT

No reboot -  MEPBS, EACMS, MacPro, PS&R, RDS, OC Base- APIM GEO, 1115 PMDA, CMS Cloud - Governance 2.0, CMS Cloud - QuickDNS, CMS Cloud - CMSNet, CMS Cloud - CCG Web Content, CMS Cloud - Network Arch, CMS Cloud - VPC Automation, CMS Cloud - Security Team, CMS Cloud - CCG Web Content, CMS Cloud Temporal, CMS Cloud - Splunk, CMS Cloud - CET, AWS GSS Security GC, CMS Cloud - Splunk GovCloud Dev

*What is the impact? *

Patches will be transmitted to the affected areas. For some customers, reboots may occur depending upon the tags applied.

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06/20/2024 - Marketplace SSM Patching - DEV/TEST

*Summary*


* Marketplace DEV/TEST
* SSM Linux & Windows Vulnerability Patching

*Actions we are taking:*

As part of our normal patching, the CMS Cloud team will apply the latest Windows and Linux patches on Thursday, 06/20/2024 at 5:00 p.m. ET.  The week's patches will impact the DEV/TEST environment for the affected Marketplace applications noted below. 

*When is this happening? *(Date adjusted for the Holiday)**

Start Time: Thursday, 06/20/2024 at 5:00 p.m. ET

End Time:  Thursday, 06/20/2023 at 11:00 p.m ET

*Who will be impacted?*

FFM_Opera, FFM MLMS, FFM SERTS-SERVIS, FFM_TWS, VAMS, CRMS, XES - CyberArk, XES - Service Virtualization, MCIM, zONE

*What is the impact? *

Patches will be transmitted to the affected areas. For some ADOs, reboots may occur depending upon the tags applied.

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06/21/2024 - DevOps Services Maintenance

*Summary*
CMS Cloud will be performing maintenance updates on its DevOps tools.

*Actions we are taking*


* Upgrade nodes to latest EKS gold image for CMS Cloud Jfrog, CBJ and SonarQube
* Upgrade CloudBees Jenkins CI 
* Upgrade EKS and relevant add-ons for JFrog 

*When is this happening?*
Start time: Friday, 06/21/2024 at 9:00 p.m. ET
End time:  Saturday, 06/22/2024 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

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06/23/24 - BigFix Endpoint Config Updates- Phase 1

*Summary*


* Automated deployment of endpoint configuration file changes.

*Actions we are taking*

As part of system maintenance, the CMS BigFix team will apply configuration changes to client endpoints.  The changes to the client configuration will effectively point the client to a new relay server and retain the current one as a back up. 

*When is this happening?*

Start Time: Sunday, 06/23/2024 at 9:00 a.m. ET

End Time: Sunday, 06/23/2024 at 5:30 p.m. ET

*Who will be impacted?*

 All AWS Commercial accounts with the BigFix agent installed on the client.

*What is the impact? *

The configuration file change will not cause the endpoints to restart.  The customers will experience no impact or outage during the configuration file change. 

*Benefits of the change*

Upon completion of this change, the client configuration will enhance endpoint communications with the relay.

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06/26/2024 - Marketplace SSM Patching - IMPL

*Summary*


* Marketplace IMPL
* SSM Linux & Windows Vulnerability Patching

*Actions we are taking:*

As part of our normal patching, the CMS Cloud team will apply the latest Windows and Linux patches on Wednesday, 06/26/2024 at 9:00 p.m. ET.  The week's patches will impact the DEV/TEST environment for the affected Marketplace applications noted below. 

*When is this happening? *

Start Time: Wednesday, 06/26/2024 at 9:00 p.m. ET

End Time:  Thursday, 06/27/2023 at 12:00 a.m ET

*Who will be impacted?*

FFM_Opera, FFM MLMS, FFM SERTS-SERVIS, FFM_TWS, VAMS, CRMS, XES - CyberArk, XES - Service Virtualization, MCIM, zONE

*What is the impact? *

Patches will be transmitted to the affected areas. For some ADOs, reboots may occur depending upon the tags applied.

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06/26/2024 - Non-Marketplace SSM patching - PROD

*Summary*


* Non-Marketplace PROD
* SSM Linux & Windows Vulnerability Patching

*Actions we are taking: *

As part of our normal patching, the CMS Cloud team will apply the latest Windows and Linux patches on Wednesday, 06/26/2024 at 9:00 p.m. ET.  The week's patches will impact the PROD environment for the affected Non-Marketplace applications noted below.

*When is this happening?*

Start Time: Wednesday, 06/26/2024 at 9:00 p.m. ET

End Time: Thursday, 06/26/2023 at 12:00 p.m ET

*Who will be impacted? *

Reboot - CEDAR, Million Hearts, FFSDCS, RASS, OC Base- eLDAP, SC CLIA, NTP LMS, Spott MACBIS, MDP, OC Base- WNMG, NEIL/HRES, OC Base- EWST, MacFin, eAPD Hi-C, OC Base- CMS Cloud Legacy, OC Base- DevSecOps SecDevOps, iServ, MDP, PECOS2.0, SEI, NDW, OC Base- PWSS, TRA, CMS ARTS, MCIM, RAD Analysis Tools, MCIM, Perm,  CMS Cloud - CRE, CMS Cloud - Enterprise Agile Tools, CMS Cloud tamer, CMS Cloud - CARD, CMS Cloud - ECS Fargate, CMS Cloud - Direct Connect, CMS Cloud - Jfrog SonarCube, CMS Cloud - DNS Prod, CMS Cloud - SRE, CMS Cloud - Governance 2.0, MEOWx, CMS Cloud - CloudBees Jenkins, CMS Cloud - CET, CMS Cloud - DevSecOps, CMS Cloud - Utilities, CMS Cloud - Testrail, CMS Cloud - CircleCI, CMS Cloud - Sam GSS Security GovCloud, SWIFT

No reboot -  MEPBS, EACMS, MacPro, PS&R, RDS, OC Base- APIM GEO, 1115 PMDA, CMS Cloud - Governance 2.0, CMS Cloud - QuickDNS, CMS Cloud - CMSNet, CMS Cloud - CCG Web Content, CMS Cloud - Network Arch, CMS Cloud - VPC Automation, CMS Cloud - Security Team, CMS Cloud - CCG Web Content, CMS Cloud Temporal, CMS Cloud - Splunk, CMS Cloud - CET, AWS GSS Security GC, CMS Cloud - Splunk GovCloud Dev

*What is the impact? *

Patches will be transmitted to the affected areas. For some customers, reboots may occur depending upon the tags applied.

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06/27/2024 - batCAVE Infrastructure Maintenance - PROD

*Summary*

In order to keep up to date with the latest versions and security advisories, the batCAVE PROD Infrastructure will be upgraded to the latest Gold Image and the nodes will be rotated. 

*Actions we are taking*

Update the AWS AMI Gold Image to the May 2024 image release by performing node rotations.

*When is this happening?*

Start Time: Thursday, 06/27/2024 at 9:00 p.m. ET.

End Time: Friday, 06/28/2024 at 2:59 a.m. ET.

*Who will be impacted?*

batCAVE ADO development teams and their users: FFSDCS, QMMS, SDL, DACS, CyberGeek, EPPE, eRPT, SIGNAL.

*What is the impact?* 

Customers should expect a short downtime as instances are restarted within the maintenance window.

*Questions or issues*

If you have any questions about this change, or issues, please get in touch with your batCAVE Technical Advisor for assistance. You can also file a cloud support ticket [ https://jiraent.cms.gov/plugins/servlet/desk/portal/22 ].

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