ci.jenkins.io: update of EC2 and Azure VM agents

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Damien Duportal

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Jun 10, 2021, 9:31:26 AM6/10/21

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Hello dear all,

Today at 13:30 UTC, a configuration update will be applied on the ci.jenkins.io cloud agents configuration.

The scope is an update of the VM templates used for EC2 Cloud agents and Azure VMs. The ACI (Azure Container Instances) agents are NOT in the scope.

The business values of this operations are:

Update of Maven to 3.8.1 (ACI are already updated - ref. https://github.com/jenkinsci/plugin-pom/pull/419)
Faster Agent startups (due to upgraded Linux packages - https://issues.jenkins.io/browse/INFRA-2952)
Credential rotation for EC2 Agents

No interruption is expected, however there could be builds queued if the new configuration is not working immediately as expected.

Cheers,

Damien DUPORTAL

Damien Duportal

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Jun 10, 2021, 1:49:30 PM6/10/21

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Update:

The operation went well for the EC2 agents update. Maven 3.8.1 is now generally available.

However, the Azure Agent update did not go as expected: more analysis is required (TL;DR; what looks like to be the latest VM image does not have the expected dependencies).

It should worked tomorrow and should have limited impact (only the builds requiring Maven 3.8.1).

Thanks for your understanding, We'll keep you updated tomorrow (Friday 11th of June).