Code Enigma April Newsletter
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Newsletter
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News from the Code Enigma Team
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April already, and we're sending our first newsletter of 2024. Time flies when you're busy looking after some of Europe's biggest Drupal websites!
As usual, we have a few important pieces of information to share:
Nextcloud Update
We have moved our file sharing service, Nextcloud, to a brand new server. Any files you had previously saved on there are still available on the old server, at https://nextcloud-archive.codeenigma.net. We'll keep this running until 11th July 2024, so if you need anything on it please grab it before then.
Check on your users
Friendly reminder! The nominated Code Enigma administrators at your organisation are responsible for who has access to Code Enigma systems, including your servers and other services. We encourage you to check who has access to what at least annually, preferably quarterly. It's really easy, just login to our management dashboard and click on “Manage your users” on the right. You'll be invited to enter your code for your second factor of authentication, usually from a phone app like Google Authenticator. If you don't have one yet then you can create one here. Once in you will be presented with a list of your users and what level of access they have. If you need any assistance, drop us a ticket as ever.
Code Enigma Away Week
As most of you probably know, every year we try to have an annual conference so all the staff can get together somewhere nice to talk about business, tech and just spend some face time together.
This year it's going to be a Friday to Friday affair, from 28th June to the 5th July. For those six days our service will be limited to support only.
As ever, the usual alert systems will go out to all relevant staff should an issue arise.
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Meet Sunil, our new Cloud Operations man
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Continuing on the theme of people, allow us to introduce Sunil, who is posing here on an appropriately cloudy background. Many of you have probably come across him already, he's been a member of the systems team for over a year now. However, what you may not realise is since the start of 2024 he has a dedicated new role.
Sunil is heading up Cloud Operations, which is a new thing for Code Enigma.
What does that mean for you? Well, simply put, Sunil is now charged with reviewing all our cloud usage and looking for opportunities to optimise, explore new technology, save money, enhance security, and so on. He has a wide remit within the scope of Cloud services such as AWS and Azure and he is now dedicated to getting the most out of our cloud suppliers, for Code Enigma and for you, our clients.
Feel free to reach out to him via our ticketing system if you have questions about your cloud services, and you can expect to hear from him with advice and suggestions going forwards.
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Official LocalGov Drupal Hosting Partners
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Important software updates
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There are two important software updates on our radar in the first half of 2024.
MySQL 5.7 has been End Of Life on most platforms since October 2023, although AWS provided longer support on their RDS platform. They are still providing long term support, however since 1st March 2024 there are extra charges for it. If your applications still operate MySQL 5.7 you should upgrade to MySQL 8.0 as soon as possible to be secure and to save money.
Debian 10 is also coming up to end of life, and with it goes our legacy configuration management system, Puppet. Between now and the end of June all servers will be upgraded to Debian 11 and will be Ansible managed. You should not be affected by this, but if there is any build disruption that is likely the cause.
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Containerisation is here!
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We can help you more...
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Don't forget, if you need Drupal, Symfony or other PHP development, more support for your internal team, DevOps and Continuous Integration, systems management, design, accessibility testing, we can do all that.
We'd be delighted to quote for additional services, just drop us a line on sales@codeenigma.com
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