CloudOps for AWS

3.4.x

Release Notes

3.4.16

Released July 16, 2021

New in This Release

CloudTeam

  • CLOUD-2326 Changed a deployment package build command.

CloudDeploy

  • CLOUD-2351 Changed a Dockerfile command for installing dependencies.

3.4.12

Released June 16, 2020

New in This Release

  • CLOUD-2053 Fixed a compatibility issue with the alpine:3.12 docker image.

CloudCore

  • SUP-457 Changed the service for determining the egress IP from ifconfig.co to ipinfo.io.

CloudDeploy

  • SUP-374 Fixed the integration server configuration to avoid running out of sockets and network handles.

Docker

  • SUP-466 Fixed the private key permissions issues in /ep/conf/secure/.

3.4.11

Released: May 11, 2020

New in This Release

CloudTeam

  • SUP-408 Fixed commerce pipeline intermittent failures when building ext-cm-webapp.

CloudDeploy

  • SUP-300 Removed the hardcoded AWS Aurora MySQL max_connection.
  • SUP-390 Increased the data-pop-tool container memory to 6GB.
  • SUP-430 Fixed the issue where the Cortex zoom builder fails to load.

3.4.10

Released: April 9, 2020

New in This Release

CloudCore

  • CLOUD-2010 - Fixed the compatibility issue with the latest Jenkins version.

CloudDeploy

  • Added support for Aurora MySQL 2.x database engine
  • CLOUD-1995 - Added a new UpdateAuthorAndLiveEnvironments wrapper job to simplify updating Author and Live stacks.
  • SUP-395 - Increased the MySQL container max_connections to 470 for single instance deployments.

Docker

  • SUP-365 - Fixed an issue with setting the EP_X_JVM_ARGS.

3.4.9

Released: March 19, 2020

New in This Release

CloudTeam

  • SUP-352 - Added new scheduled tasks for cleaning old build snapshots in the Nexus server.

CloudDeploy

  • CLOUD-1250 - Optimized the UpdateAuthorAndLive_2_ApplyUpdates Jenkins job to run faster.
  • SUP-247 - Restricted the S3 and SQS Identity and Access Management (IAM) permissions.

Docker

  • SUP-365 - Fixed the incorrect consul key name used by EP_X_JVM_ARGS.
  • SUP-367 - Fixed an issue with setting the EP_X_JVM_ARGS in the data-sync entrypoint script.
  • SUP-373 - Increase the Tomcat maximum HTTP header size.

3.4.8

Released: March 3, 2020

Fixed Issues

  • CLOUD-1564 - Fixed the known issue with the bootstrap Jenkins jobs where the branch parameter is being ignored.

CloudCore

  • CLOUD-1962 - Updated the following to the latest release:
    • Amazon Linux 2 base AMI image
    • Aurora MySQL 1.x database engine
    • Consul
    • Vault

CloudTeam

  • SUP-155 - Added a new EC2 load balancer for internal Nexus server traffic.

CloudDeploy

  • CLOUD-1962 - Fixed an issue with setting a non-default EP_RDS_VERSION in the DeployAuthorAndLive Jenkins job.
  • CLOUD-1963 - Fixed known issue with parallel runs of the Jenkins job BuildEPImage.
  • PERF-268 - The minimum and maximum Java Virtual Machine (JVM) heap are set to 1 GB for Active MQ to improve stability and reliability.
  • PERF-269 - Fixed ActiveMQ failover by adding a total attribute to the ActiveMQ configuration.
  • SUP-322 - UpdateAuthorAndLive_2_ApplyUpdates Jenkins job now restores the EC2 Auto Scaling Group desired capacity when an update fails.
  • SUP-323 - Added the ability to set a timeout for the Author and Live RDS database creation for the DeployAuthorAndLive Jenkins job.
  • SUP-343 - Added a 75 second wait for Simple Queue Service (SQS) deletion to complete in TeardownEnvironments Jenkins job.

Docker

  • CLOUD-1961 - Configure the Search primary and replica Java Virtual Machine (JVM) heap size independently using the EP_CONTAINER_MEM_SEARCH and EP_CONTAINER_MEM_SEARCH_SLAVE environment files.

3.4.7

Released: February 14, 2020

New in This Release

CloudCore

  • SUP-292 - Increased Jenkins primary instance size and enabled auto-restart if the server process exits.

CloudTeam

  • CLOUD-1885 - Refined the CI pipeline by running the Core I-Tests and JUnit Tests in parallel, renaming the job RunOtherCommerceTests to RunSelectedCommerceTests and changing the job to execute tests based on a job parameter, adding Junit test reports to the test steps.
  • SUP-307 - CommercePipeline and CommerceScheduledPipeline Jenkins jobs now expose more parameters for better customizability.
  • SUP-334 - CommercePipeline and CommerceScheduledPipeline Jenkins job now replaces periods and underscores with hyphens from the EP_COMMERCE_GIT_REPO_BRANCH.

CloudDeploy

  • SUP-333 - DeploySingleInstance Jenkins job now replaces periods and underscores with hyphens from the EP_IMAGE_TAG parameter.

3.4.6

Released: January 22, 2020

Fixed Issues

CloudTeam

  • CLOUD-1831 - Fixed the Maven central repository URL to use HTTPS URLs instead of HTTP URLs.

3.4.5

Released: January 9, 2020

Fixed Issues

CloudCore

  • CLOUD-1788 - Fixed the cleanup script for CloudCore, so the script can run when the network stack is deleted.

3.4.4

Released: January 7, 2020

New in This Release

CloudCore

  • CLOUD-1770 - Fixed Jenkins EC2 instance failing to fetch yum repo or key file.

CloudDeploy

  • CLOUD-1723 - DeploySingleInstance and DeployAuthorAndLive Jenkins jobs now able to pull in external environment files from S3 instead of Git.
  • CLOUD-1801 - Update AWS Lambda functions to use Node.js 12.

3.4.3

Released: December 4, 2019

New in This Release

CloudCore

  • The base Amazon Machine Image (AMI) no longer comes with docker-compose preinstalled.

CloudDeploy

  • SUP-181 - Fixed zero downtime environment updates and addressed ECS unable to assume the role 'role/None' task update error.
  • SUP-260 - The Live Batch server crashing no longer causes the Live Search primary server to restart.

Docker

  • SUP-260 - The Batch server no longer waits for a Search server to be ready to start.

3.4.2

Released: November 5, 2019

New in This Release

CloudCore

  • CLOUD-1649 - Version locked all Jenkins plugins.
  • CLOUD-1643 - Added a new Jenkins job ProductionSecurityGroups to secure public, private, and bastion EC2 Security Groups.

CloudDeploy

  • SUP-272 Fixed an issue with updating the Author and Live environment when using secure commerce configuration.

3.4.1

Released: October 24, 2019

New in This Release

CloudCore

  • CLOUD-1660 - Locked the Jenkins Durable Task plugin to version 1.30 to avoid issues introduced in the latest version of the plugin.

CloudDeploy

  • SUP-250 - Fixed the issue of SQS Purchases queues not receiving messages from cross-account Simple Notification Service (SNS) subscriptions.

Docker

  • Added Elastic Path Commerce 7.6 compatibility.

3.4.0

Released: October 9, 2019

Release Highlights

CI Pipeline for Development Teams

Added a Continuous Integration (CI) pipeline for development teams that builds Elastic Path Commerce from source, deploys to a single-instance server and runs system tests.

Simple Queue Service (SQS) Integration

Configured SQS queues for message-based integration with external systems for purchases, shipments and inventory.

Security and Compliance

  • Added the ability to inject Commerce configuration at runtime from an encrypted Git repository.

  • Enabled encryption of Aurora production databases.

  • Improved access security for Consul, JMX, Tomcat and Jenkins:

    • Secured access to Consul configuration using Access Control Lists (ACLs) keys provided by a Vault cluster
    • Enabled JMX user and password authentication.
    • Removed default Tomcat web applications, such as Manager and Host Manager.
    • Enabled use of an API token for Jenkins API calls.

  • Disabled Tomcat logging of system properties.

Availability

Added ability to deploy an RDS read-replica for an Author database and changed the default to deploy read-replicas for an Author and Live deployment.

Jenkins

  • Added a Jenkins job to update single-instance deployments.
  • Added a Jenkins job to teardown environments.
  • Converted Jenkins jobs to use Jenkinsfiles to simplify job upgrades and definitions.

Upgrade Notes

Redeployment Required

This is a major release with significant changes to the core infrastructure. As a result a full redeployment of the infrastructure is required.

Jenkins Job Customizations

Any previous customizations to Jenkins jobs must be applied to the appropriate Jenkinsfiles.

Jenkins Job Name Changes

The BuildDeploymentPackage Jenkins job was renamed to BuildCommerce as the job now has additional options to deploy build artifacts to Nexus and build Commerce with tests.

New in This Release

CloudCore

  • CLOUD-1431 - Decreased the Jenkins master node to a t3.small instance size.
  • CLOUD-1456 - Introduced two new Jenkins build node types; one small and one large.
  • CLOUD-1451 - Converted Jenkins jobs into Jenkinsfiles.
  • CLOUD-1445 - Secured Consul using Access Control Lists (ACLs) keys provided by a Vault cluster.
  • CLOUD-1545 - Modified Jenkins installation to use the latest Long Term Stable (LTS) version instead of a locked version.
  • CLOUD-1549 - Generated API token to use for authentication in Jenkins API calls.
  • CLOUD-1606 - Locked the Jenkins EC2 plugin to version 1.45 to avoid issues introduced in the latest version of the plugin.

CloudTeam

  • CLOUD-1451 - Converted Jenkins jobs into Jenkinsfiles.
  • CLOUD-1450 - Added the Spring Plugins Maven repository to Nexus.
  • CLOUD-1549 - Converted Jenkins API calls to authenticate with the Jenkins API token.
  • CLOUD-1455 - Renamed the BuildDeploymentPackage Jenkins job to BuildCommerce. Added new functionality to the job, such as the ability to push build artifacts to Nexus and building Commerce with tests.
  • CLOUD-1454 - Added new Jenkins pipeline jobs CommercePipeline, CommerceScheduledPipeline, RunCortexSystemTests, and RunOtherCommerceTests.
  • CLOUD-1595 - Increased the maximum heap size used by the Maven Docker image to avoid out of memory issues, and speed up build times.

CloudDeploy

  • CLOUD-838 - Added ActiveMQ logs to the Author and Live CloudWatch log groups.
  • CLOUD-1332 - Changed the default Author and Live subdomains from ep-preprod to al.
  • CLOUD-1320 - Enabled JMX user and password authentication for all Authoring and Live deployments.
  • CLOUD-1265 - Added job for updating single-instance deployments.
  • CLOUD-1452 - Added functionality to use Simple Queue Service (SQS) for message-based integration with external systems.
  • CLOUD-1451 - Converted Jenkins jobs into Jenkinsfiles.
  • CLOUD-1309 - Added ability to deploy an RDS read-replica for an Author database and changed the default to deploy read-replicas for an Author and Live deployment.
  • CLOUD-1359 - Enabled detailed monitoring on single-instance EC2 instances.
  • CLOUD-1502 - Changed EP_SMTP_HOST and EP_SMTP_PORT configuration in single-instance and Author and Live deployments.
  • CLOUD-1549 - Converted Jenkins API calls to authenticate with the Jenkins API token.
  • CLOUD-1455 - Output the private IP of the single-instance to the DeploySingleInstance Jenkins job logs.
  • PM-998 - Added ability to inject commerce configuration after application Docker images are built.
  • SUP-151 - Increased timeouts for Author and Live and single-instance deployments.
  • CLOUD-1454 - Added new Jenkins pipeline job TeardownEnvironments.
  • PM-1389 - Added an /ep/app/ directory for the batch and integration servers.
  • OPS-2 - Added a Jenkins parameter for adding a description to builds of several Jenkins jobs.
  • CLOUD-1592 - Stabilized deployments by adjusting memory resourcing and increasing EC2 instance sizes of single-instance and Author deployments.

Docker

  • CLOUD-1321 - Removed default Tomcat web applications, such as Manager and Host Manager.
  • CLOUD-1361 - Disabled Tomcat logging of system properties.
  • CLOUD-1320 - Added support for enabling JMX user and password authentication.
  • CLOUD-1263 - Moved container healthchecks from Docker containers to the Elastic Load Balancers (ELB).
  • CLOUD-1231 - Added a step in the Docker entrypoint scripts to wait for dependent services to start.
  • CLOUD-1497 - Added redundant key servers to verify signatures of packages when you download GPG public keys to increase build stability.
  • CLOUD-1502 - Changed EP_SMTP_HOST and EP_SMTP_PORT configuration in common.env and common.live.env
  • PB-6191 - Improved performance of database validation query.
  • PERF-157 - Added environment properties to configure search indexer queue sizes to handle large catalogs.
  • PM-998 - Added ability to inject commerce configuration after application Docker images are built.
  • PM-1389 - Mounted Amazon Elastic File System volume for the batch and integration servers.

Fixed Issues

  • CLOUD-1317 - Fixed an Identity and Access Management (IAM) permission issue preventing Elastic Container Service (ECS) metrics from being uploaded to CloudWatch.
  • CLOUD-1402 - Fixed database failover logic to use the correct Aurora cluster endpoint.
  • SUP-118 - Added better error logging when CloudTeam or CloudDeploy initialization fails due to DNS name servers not being updated.
  • SUP-121 - Removed duplicate Git repository URL Consul key.
  • SUP-138 - Fixed intermittent bootstrap issue where Jenkins jobs would run before initialization was complete.
  • SUP-125 - Fixed validation when checking for unset environment variables.
  • SUP-126 - Fixed validation when checking the Canonical Name (CNAME) record in the Jenkins job Verify-Domain-for-SES.
  • SUP-167 - Fixed how the script runCleanOutCloudCore.sh copies the Git SSH key. This addresses an issue where the key is deleted when it is in the same directory as the cleanup container Dockerfile.
  • SUP-191 - Adjusted the memory sizes for the batch and search applications.
  • SUP-122 - Added additional parameter validation to the Author and Live deployment update Jenkins job.
Last updated on 7/30/2021