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September 2024: CMS Gold Image Updates








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September 2024: CMS Gold Image Updates

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Overview 

Below you will find this month's updates for CMS Gold Images (GIs) from the CMS Hybrid Cloud Team.

Upcoming Updates

* *Amazon Linux 2 (AL2) End of Life (EOL) in June 2025:*
* AL2 has an upcoming EOL in June 2025. All AL2 users should plan on migrating to AL2023 as soon as possible.

* *Amazon Linux 2023 (AL2023) CMS GI available now!*
* In anticipation of the AL2 EOL in June 2025, the CMS Hybrid Cloud Team has released the AL2023 CMS GI on July 12, 2024.
* A hotfix for the AWS kernel update was released on Monday, August 26, 2024, and also included in the September CMS AL2023 GI available on Friday, September 13, 2024.
* CMS Cloud has begun providing managed patching for AL2023 GIs at this time.
* Benefits of the new CMS AL2023 GI include additional applied security hardening, use of Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) over legacy BIOS, and more!
* For further details about change benefits, please refer to AWS' documentation [ https://docs.aws.amazon.com/linux/al2023/ug/compare-with-al2.html ].


* *CMS Marketplace Customers to utilize "Bring Your Own License" (BYOL) Red Hat GIs only:*
* For our CMS Marketplace customers, please note that MITG has their own dedicated license for Red Hat which includes premium support.
* Thus, if a Marketplace Customer utilizes a regular RHEL GI and not a BYOL RHEL, they will incur an unnecessary cost. 

* Note that all BYOL GIs have "byol" in the GI name.

Gold Image Accessibility

CMS GI availability is based on the respective team's CAMP details. If a team would like to request a new CMS GI, please open a Hybrid Cloud Support Jira Ticket [ https://jiraent.cms.gov/plugins/servlet/desk/portal/22 ] and notify the designated IUSG Advisor.

Below is a table of the currently available CMS GIs by operating system (OS) and the respective EOLs.

*CMS Gold Image* **OS Vendor-provided End of Life (EOL)** Amazon Linux 2  EOL June 2025 Amazon Linux 2 with EKS EOL June 2025 Amazon Linux 2023 EOL March 2028 RHEL8 EOL May 2029 Windows2016 EOL January 2027 Windows2019 EOL January 2029 Windows2022 EOL October 2031

Future release dates for 2024 CMS GIs are available in our CMS Cloud Gold Image and patching calendar [ https://cloud.cms.gov/cms-cloud-patching-gold-image-calendar-new ].

For more information about CMS GIs, please review the available Gold Image documentation [ https://cloud.cms.gov/intro-gold-image ]. 

Questions or Concerns

For questions or issues, please file a Hybrid Cloud support ticket.  [ https://jiraent.cms.gov/plugins/servlet/desk/portal/22 ]



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