Hello everyone,

This is a friendly reminder of the current and upcoming status of CentOS CI changes (check [1]).

Projects that opted-in for continuing on CentOS CI have been migrated, and the new Duffy API is available. With that, *phase 0 has been completed*. Regarding *phase 1*, we are still working on a permanent fix for the DB Concurrency issues [2]. Also, as for our OpenShift new deployment, we have a staging environment up and running, and it should be available at the beginning of September 2022.

In October 2022 we begin *phase 2* when we will work through the following items (these were also previously communicated in [1]):

- legacy/compatibility API endpoint will handover EC2 instances instead of local seamicro nodes (VMs vs bare metal) - bare-metal options will be available through the new API only - legacy seamicro and aarch64/ThunderX hardware are decommissioned - only remaining "on-premises" option is ppc64le (local cloud)Feel free to reach out if you have any questions or concerns

The final deadline for decommissioning the old infrastructure (*phase 3*) is *December 2022*. We will be communicating further until then, and meanwhile, reach out to any of us in case you have any questions.

Regards,

[1] [ci-users] Changes on CentOS CI and next steps: https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/ci-users/2022-June/004547.html [2] DB Concurrency issues: https://github.com/CentOS/duffy/issues/523