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Cloud.gov: A Different Kind of Cloud
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.
Disabling inactive cloud.gov IDP accounts
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...
Getting to know new features with the cf7 cli rolling app deployments
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...
cloud.gov not impacted by SolarWinds Orion code compromise - CISA Directive 21-01
On December 13, 2020, the DHS Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) published Emergency Directive 21-01, “Mitigate SolarWinds Orion Code Compromise”. We want to assure cloud.gov customers that the SolarWinds Orion code compromise is not applicable to cloud.gov. There are no SolarWinds components in the cloud.gov system.
Elasticsearch and Redis deprecation notice
As part of our reliability and stability enhancements to cloud.gov, the legacy Redis 3.2 and Elasticsearch 5.6 offerings from cloud.gov will be deprecated as of April 5, 2021. In accordance with our deprecation policy, provisioning of new instances will be disabled on December 6, 2020 and on April 5, 2021...
Running .NET Apps on cloud.gov
Learn more about how you can run .NET apps on the cloud.gov platform and get answers to commonly asked questions about .NET development and deployment for cloud.gov
Try a free sandbox space
The capabilities of cloud.gov are vast, and like many initial cloud.gov users, you may be unsure what access level best suits your team. In our experience, we have seen that users who sign up for a cloud.gov sandbox space have the ability to easily scale and adapt their work.
Changes to cloud.gov’s existing CDN and custom domain services
This message is to let you know about upcoming changes to cloud.gov’s CDN and domain services. What is happening to the old services? Let’s Encrypt, which the cloud.gov custom domain service uses to provision SSL certificates for custom domains, is deprecating their v1 API. If you already have a domain...