Canonical Public Cloud (CPC) team being more involved in release decisions on suite release day

[Phil Roche]

Hi all,

Bumping this for visibility again.

Are there any objections to formally considering Ubuntu cloud images for
no/no go decisions on release day?

It is very unlikely even to be an issue, but should we be unfortunate
enough to have another kernel CVE land on
release day, then at least we have it agreed that the cloud image use cases
should be considered when deciding
to release or not.

Thanks,

Phil

On Thu, 23 Mar 2023 at 14:50, Phil Roche <phil.roche at canonical.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I work on the Canonical Public Cloud (CPC) team responsible for the build
> and publication of all the Ubuntu cloud images
> <http://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/> and all their supported derivatives in
> the major public and private clouds.
>
> As 23.04 release day fast approaches, I would like to start a new thread
> on CPC's involvement in release day decisions.
>
> Reflecting on the last Ubuntu 22.10 release, from a cloud image
> perspective, it did not go very well and we were a few days behind the main
> desktop/server release, finally releasing on October 22nd instead of
> October 20th. This was due to the decision by CPC to wait for the high
> priority CVE https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2022-2602 changes to land in
> the Kinetic kernel.
>
> The use cases for cloud images are not the same as for server and desktop
> and releasing with a vulnerable kernel did not make sense even if we knew
> an updated kernel that people could upgrade to was forthcoming.
>
> The current release process is centered on ISOs with cloud images being
> downstream but I feel that given Ubuntu cloud images’ usage a situation
> like the above with CVE-2022-2602 should have warranted a no-go decision.
>
> What are the release teams' thoughts on CPC team being more involved in
> the no/go decision process on release day? I recognise that release team
> member Utkarsh Gupta is an engineer on the CPC team but his involvement in
> the release team is not with cloud images specifically.
>
> Thank you for all that you do,
>
> Phil
>
>
> --
> Phil Roche
> Staff Software Engineer
> Canonical Public Cloud
>


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Phil Roche
Staff Software Engineer
Canonical Public Cloud
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