Read the online version
  04/10/2023  

Europa IT platform

Notification service
European Commission Logo
Planned maintenance
Basic authentication credentials update, Cloud with Ubuntu distribution and Ephemeral/demo environment

Basic authentication credentials update on 17/10

Basic access authentication credentials used for the following environments will be updated on October 17th at 10:00.

    DC ACC
    DC PRE PROD

    AWS SALT ACC
    AWS SALT PRE PROD

    AWS EKS ACC
    AWS EKS PRE PROD

You can find details about the change at: https://citnet.tech.ec.europa.eu/CITnet/jira/browse/FPFISSUPP-22843

Cloud with Ubuntu distribution on 09/10

Starting from October 9th, all new Cloud9 instances will be created using the distribution Ubuntu. 

Nevertheless, it will still be possible after this date to use instances running on Amazon Linux and we will provide support for these instances until end of November 2023. 

Ephemeral/demo environments on 09/10

Starting from October 9th, the following hard limit will be enforced for ephemeral/demo environments:

  •  3 hours for unpinned environments
  •  3 days for pinned environments

This doesn't impact demo/ephemeral environments of sites deployed with GitHub/Drone.

This is the newsletter of the Europa IT platform services managed by DG DIGIT.B1. It provides technical information to professionals involved in the creation and/or management of public information websites hosted under the europa.eu domain, in particular, those websites using the Europa Web Publishing Platform or Open Europa (based on Drupal technology) and related Webtools services. The information on this newsletter does not require any action from owners of sites built with the Europa Web Publishing Platform. As product owner, DG COMM will contact those site owners for action when necessary. If this newsletter was forwarded to you and you want to receive it directly you can subscribe here. You can consult previous issues of the newsletter here If you have any comments concerning the content of this newsletter, please write to EC EUROPA IT PLATFORM. You may unsubscribe from this newsletter on your profile page
The European Commission is committed to personal data protection. Any personal data is processed in line with the Regulation (EU) 2018/1725. Please read the privacy statement.