cloud.gov news

With so many ways to organize and prioritize work - scrum, Kanban, SAFE - it can be helpful to learn about a team’s experience with using different practices and processes. In the spirit of sharing knowledge and translating theory into practice, we’ll use this blog post to explain how cloud.gov manages its work and what we’ve learned along the way.

This is a repost of our StatusPage notice, originally posted August 7th, 2020

Join us on March 17 for a tech talk to learn more about internal routes on cloud.gov. Our engineers will show you how to use internal routes for secure, direct, container-to-container communication between applications.

We share a sample “System Environment” SSP response for a Low-impact system

The cloud.gov platform acts as a concierge for your cloud deployments, removing a lot of the hard work of setting up a scalable and compliant infrastructure, and streamlining the ATO process.

With an update to our compliancy policy, we will begin notifying and deactivating inactive accounts that use our cloud.gov IDP for authentication. Our customers that use their agencies’ credentials to authenticate into our platform will not be affected. Users that do not log into the platform within the past 90 days will be deactivated. We will send you email notifications 10 days and 1 day before deactivation instructing you to log into the platform to reset the 90 day threshold. If you are unable to log into the platform within the allotted time, you will need to email support@cloud.gov to have your account reactivated.

We have put together a new video tutorial to focus on new features of the cf7 CLI. This tutorial will get you familiar with the new “rolling” app deployment strategy available for zero downtime deployments. With these new features available in the cf7 cli, the rolling, zero-downtime deployment option is the most anticipated feature and could improve your workflows the most. The older versions of cli did not provide zero downtime deployments natively which meant needing to use a third party plugin or complicated blue/green deployment pipeline to accommodate your needs.

On December 13, 2020, the DHS Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) published Emergency Directive 21-01, “Mitigate SolarWinds Orion Code Compromise”.