Azure CycleCloud 7 is retiring on September 30th, 2023

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Azure CycleCloud 7 is retiring on September 30th, 2023

Deprecation ID: 31a57b3d-65ef-4090-8c21-2451be41ff3c Deadline: Sep 30, 2023 Impacted Services:

• Azure Cycle Cloud

More information:

• Announcement
• Migration Guide

Notice

Here's the official report from Microsoft:

Azure CycleCloud now provides CycleCloud 8 with new features and removal of Python 2.7 support in clusters. As Python 2.7 reached end-of-life in 2020, CycleCloud 7 will be retired on 30 September 2023. Please transition to using CycleCloud 8 by that date.

Timeline

Phase	Date	Description
Announcement	Sep 30, 2022	Deprecation was announced
Deprecation	Sep 30, 2023	The installation will continue to work, at your own risk, as it will no longer receive patches nor security fixes.

Impact

Azure CycleCloud 7 is retiring on September 30th, 2023 and upgrade to CycleCloud 8 is required.

Required Action

A migration guide is provided here.

Here's the official report from Microsoft:

To avoid disruptions to your workflow and minimize security vulnerabilities, follow these steps to transition using CycleCloud 8 before 30 September 2023. After that, we’ll stop supporting CycleCloud 7 and no additional security patches or bug fixes will be released. Since CycleCloud is an installed product, you may continue to use their installations past this date at your own risk.

Contact

You can get in touch through the following options:

• Contact Azure support (link).
• Get answers from Microsoft Q&A (link).

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