What’s New?

To address current capacity issues related to the limited Platform CPU, we’ve made the difficult decision to temporarily prioritize new project requests, based on the following criteria:

  1. Your project addresses the needs of an urgent COVID-19 response;

  2. Your project has been designated as high business priority;

  3. You have the DevOps capacity in place to support the development of resilient architecture suitable for multi-node deployment.

If your project meets all 3 requirements, we can provision a namespace for you now. If it doesn’t , we ask that the project wait until a new Openshift 4 Platform becomes available in September 2020.

Why the change?

With accelerated growth over the past few months we’ve maximized our shared resources and hit Platform operational capacity. To ensure Platform high-performance for our community, we’re proactively conserving available CPU to manage load spikes and reserve space for urgent demands.

This is a temporary situation only, which will be resolved when we migrate to OpenShift 4 (OCP 4). Our OCP 4 expansion more than doubles current CPU capacity with new production clusters, plus an additional Azure Cloud offering.

How long will you be screening new projects?

We anticipate the need to screen and prioritize projects to continue until the new OCP 4 Platform becomes available for application migration. The Platform Roadmap (see attachment, below) targets commencement of application migration to the OCP 4 Platform in September 2020 with completion by December 2020. As OCP 4 becomes available, all incoming projects will have access to the new Platform.

NOTE: Additional communication regarding the OCP 4 migration is coming, but if you want insight into progress, please join the Platform Services Team Sprint Reviews that we run every 3 weeks. You can join by contacting me directly to get on the meeting invite.