https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/ Recent content on Release Notes base2Services en-us Fri, 17 Apr 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/base2bot-teams-integration.html Wed, 03 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/base2bot-teams-integration.html Introduction base2bot now supports Microsoft Teams, giving customers more flexibility in how they contact base2services. https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/bearse-metrics-monitor-v0.6.4.html Fri, 17 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/bearse-metrics-monitor-v0.6.4.html Bearse Feature Account Health - Metrics Monitor v0.6.4 Introduction We’re excited to announce the release of Bearse Feature Account Health v0. https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/bearse-feature-reporting-resource-explorer.html Tue, 12 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/bearse-feature-reporting-resource-explorer.html Introduction Organizations managing large AWS environments need reliable, comprehensive visibility into their infrastructure assets. https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/washery/github-actions-support.html Tue, 12 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/washery/github-actions-support.html Washery GitHub Actions Support & Enhanced MySQL Functionality Introduction Teams using Washery for database sanitization can now seamlessly integrate their data washing workflows into GitHub Actions CI/CD pipelines. https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/bastion-cli-custom-volume-size.html Wed, 19 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/bastion-cli-custom-volume-size.html Introduction The bastion-cli tool has been enhanced with a new feature that allows users to specify custom EBS volume sizes when launching bastion instances. https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/cost-reporting.html Wed, 05 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/cost-reporting.html Summary The new Cost Reporting feature provides a robust foundation for tracking and analyzing AWS costs across your organization. https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/bearse-feature-reporting-eip-support.html Thu, 21 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/bearse-feature-reporting-eip-support.html Introduction We are pleased to announce the release of Bearse Feature Reporting version 0. https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/washery/washery-credential-refresh.html Wed, 16 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/washery/washery-credential-refresh.html Introduction We’re excited to announce an important enhancement to the Washery tool, focusing on improved credential management during CloudFormation stack operations. https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/ciinabox-pipelines-s3-region-fix.html Fri, 11 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/ciinabox-pipelines-s3-region-fix.html Introduction This release addresses a critical issue in the CIINABox Pipelines library where S3 bucket location queries were failing with authorization header errors when accessing buckets in certain regions, specifically ap-southeast-1. https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/bastion-cli-volume-encryption.html Thu, 10 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/bastion-cli-volume-encryption.html Introduction The Bastion CLI tool has been enhanced with new capabilities for managing EBS volume configurations when launching bastion instances. https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/shelvery/0.9.11.html Mon, 23 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/shelvery/0.9.11.html Introduction Shelvery v0.9.11 introduces important improvements to tag handling for RDS instances, DocumentDB clusters, and Aurora clusters. https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/certificate-monitoring.html Mon, 12 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/certificate-monitoring.html Introduction The Account Health monitoring stack has been enhanced with a new certificate monitoring feature that provides proactive alerting for upcoming certificate expiries. https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/sns-message-partitioning.html Tue, 06 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/sns-message-partitioning.html Introduction The bearse-feature-reporting system has been enhanced with a new feature that automatically handles large reports by partitioning them into smaller chunks when they exceed the AWS SNS message size limit. https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/guardian-0.11.11.html Thu, 11 Jul 2024 15:10:15 +1100 https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/guardian-0.11.11.html The 0.11.11 release of Guardian introduces a new resource type and various bug fixes. https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/shelvery-0.9.10.html Thu, 11 Jul 2024 13:58:33 +1000 https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/shelvery-0.9.10.html The 0.9.10 release of shelvery includes a refactor of the re-encryption process used to share snapshots between accounts. https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/startstop/resource-schedules/resource-schedules.html Wed, 22 May 2024 11:47:48 +1000 https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/startstop/resource-schedules/resource-schedules.html The 0.1.0 release of the Start Stop feature introduces a massive code refactor to improve performance and reliability of the start-stop functionality with AWS infrastructure. https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/account-health-bearse-monitoring.html Tue, 14 May 2024 10:19:07 +1100 https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/account-health-bearse-monitoring.html The 0.4.4 release of the Account Health feature introduces a new lambda to the monitoring stack which provides the capability to monitor all lambda functions deployed by bearse features. https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/shelvery-0.9.9.html Tue, 07 May 2024 13:58:33 +1000 https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/shelvery-0.9.9.html With the 0.9.9 release of shelvery we’ve updated all lambda functions to utilise the Python 3. https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/account-health-washery-monitoring.html Thu, 07 Mar 2024 10:19:07 +1100 https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/account-health-washery-monitoring.html The 0.4.1 release of the Account Health feature introduces a new lambda to the latest monitoring stack which provides the capability to monitor the washery tool. https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/account-health-tool-monitoring.html Wed, 21 Feb 2024 10:19:07 +1100 https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/account-health-tool-monitoring.html The 0.3.9 release of the Account Health feature introduces a new stack to deploy called Monitoring with the purpose of providing an extra layer of monitoring on the developers tools deployed to enviroments. https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/shared-ami-and-snapshot-cleaner.html Thu, 15 Feb 2024 10:18:42 +1100 https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/shared-ami-and-snapshot-cleaner.html With the existence of shared AMI’s and snapshots between accounts comes the rising issue of whats in use and what isn’t? https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/bearse-api-feature-dependencies.html Thu, 25 Jan 2024 13:19:10 +1100 https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/bearse-api-feature-dependencies.html With the latest release of the Bearse API, we have added the ability to designate dependencies between stacks from other features. https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/guardian-0.11.10.html Tue, 09 Jan 2024 15:10:15 +1100 https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/guardian-0.11.10.html The 0.11.10 release of Guardian introduces a variety of fixes to various issues. https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/sns-encryption/sns-encryption.html Thu, 30 Nov 2023 11:03:04 +1100 https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/sns-encryption/sns-encryption.html With the latest release of the following bearse features Guardian 0. https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/guardian-0.11.6.html Wed, 18 Oct 2023 12:12:43 +1100 https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/guardian-0.11.6.html The 0.11.6 release of Guardian introduces support for certificates managed in Amazon Certificate Manager (ACM). https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/guardian-0.11.4/guardian-0.11.4.html Fri, 28 Jul 2023 12:12:41 +1100 https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/guardian-0.11.4/guardian-0.11.4.html The 0.11.4 release of Guardian introduces the ability to create alarms on specific aliases on a lambda function. https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/bearse/validate-parameters/bearse-validate-parameters.html Tue, 18 Jul 2023 11:07:06 +1100 https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/bearse/validate-parameters/bearse-validate-parameters.html With the latest update of bearse, we have added validation on all parameters of a bearse feature during the deployment process. https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/startstop/user-interface/start-stop-user-interface.html Tue, 13 Jun 2023 11:04:31 +1100 https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/startstop/user-interface/start-stop-user-interface.html With the 0.0.7 release of the Start-Stop feature we’ve added the ability to interact with managed resources via a user interface. https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/shelvery/shelvery-0.9.8.html Thu, 27 Apr 2023 11:05:29 +1100 https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/shelvery/shelvery-0.9.8.html The 0.9.8 release of Shelvery introduces two new features. Optional re-encryption of RDS Cluster & Instance snapshots Ability to skip backups of explicity unset retention types. https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/event-logger/event-logger.html Wed, 19 Apr 2023 15:14:33 +1000 https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/event-logger/event-logger.html With the 0.9.0 release of the Guardian Bearse feature, we are logging AWS service events for RDS, Redshift, EC2, AWS Health and Trusted Advisor to a bucket in S3. https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/startstop/release/start-stop.html Tue, 18 Apr 2023 11:47:48 +1000 https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/startstop/release/start-stop.html The 0.0.1 release of the Start Stop feature introduces the basic implementation of the cfn-start-stop-stack gem as a bearse feature. https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/cognito/cognito.html Fri, 31 Mar 2023 12:20:23 +1100 https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/cognito/cognito.html Cognito support has been added to the highlander allowing for easy implementation of basic cognito authentication to validate users. https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/bearse/scp/bearse-scp.html Thu, 02 Mar 2023 11:04:48 +1100 https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/bearse/scp/bearse-scp.html With the latest update of bearse, we have added the ability to fully manage service control policies (SCP’s) within bearse. https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/ciinabox-pipelines-washery-clean-snapshots.html Tue, 24 Jan 2023 11:07:52 +1100 https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/ciinabox-pipelines-washery-clean-snapshots.html Ciinabox Pipelines now has the capability to cleanup washery snapshots with the new pipeline function washeryCleanSnapshots. https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/washery-0.4.1.html Thu, 24 Nov 2022 10:11:01 +1100 https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/washery-0.4.1.html The 0.4.1 release of Washery introduces the ability to configure the CPU and memory values for the washery ECS task. https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/guardian-websocket-check.html Mon, 14 Nov 2022 11:06:29 +1100 https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/guardian-websocket-check.html The 0.10.0 release of Guardian introduces the new check type of ‘Websocket’. https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/api-metric-collector/api-metrics-collector.html Fri, 21 Oct 2022 11:30:10 +1100 https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/api-metric-collector/api-metrics-collector.html With the latest release of the Guardian Bearse feature it now adds support for the new stackset ‘apimetrics’. https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/guardian-multiple-slack-channels.html Mon, 10 Oct 2022 15:03:26 +1000 https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/guardian-multiple-slack-channels.html With the latest release of the Guardian Bearse feature it now supports creating multiple independent Guardian stacks. https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/guardian-multiple-configs.html Mon, 10 Oct 2022 09:47:26 +1000 https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/guardian-multiple-configs.html The 0.6.0 release of the Guardian Bearse feature now supports sending alarms to multiple Slack channels with Guardian stacks created in the same AWS Account and region. https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/guardian-alarm-tags.html Mon, 10 Oct 2022 09:47:10 +1000 https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/guardian-alarm-tags.html With the latest Guardian version and the latest Guardian Bearse feature, tags can be applied to Cloudwatch alarms created by guardian. https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/ecr-scanner/ecr-scanner.html Thu, 06 Oct 2022 14:31:56 +1100 https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/ecr-scanner/ecr-scanner.html ECR Scanner periodically scans clusters for images deployed from a central ECR repository for vulnerabilities. https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/bastion-cli-portforwarding/bastion-cli-port-forwarding.html Wed, 14 Sep 2022 12:27:39 +1000 https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/bastion-cli-portforwarding/bastion-cli-port-forwarding.html With the latest release of Bastion we’ve introduced some new functionality and improved some existing as as well as added documentation to the readme. https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/jenkmon-multiple-agents.html Wed, 04 May 2022 11:29:49 +1000 https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/jenkmon-multiple-agents.html JenkMon is synthetic monitoring of Jenkins by running a simulated pipelines on Jenkins agents to capture issues before they have an impact. https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/ciinabox2-0.8.0.html Fri, 18 Mar 2022 16:02:30 +1100 https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/ciinabox2-0.8.0.html Jenkins Agent Build Caching With the latest ciinabox2 0.8.0 and the latest ciinabox Jenkins agent AMIs releases Jenkins agents can now mount a EFS volume to cache build data. https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/bearse-feature-audit-manager.html Tue, 22 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/bearse-feature-audit-manager.html Setup AWS Audit Manager With Bearse AWS Audit Manager continuously audits your AWS environment to simplify how you assess risk and compliance with regulations and industry standards, more information on Audit Manager can be found here. https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/bearse-feature-iam-access-analyzer.html Tue, 22 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/bearse-feature-iam-access-analyzer.html Setup AWS IAM Access Analyzer with Bearse IAM Access Analyzer is an AWS service within AWS Identity Access Management (IAM). https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/jenkins-distribution.2.303.2-b2.html Thu, 21 Oct 2021 11:59:16 +1100 https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/jenkins-distribution.2.303.2-b2.html Jenkins Synthetic Monitoring As part of this release, we now enable by default, a monitoring job within Jenkins. https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/ciinabox-pipelines-cfn-exports.html Wed, 22 Sep 2021 10:44:50 +1000 https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/ciinabox-pipelines-cfn-exports.html You can now query Cloudformation exports using the cloudformation ciinabox-pipelines method. https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/ciinabox2-0.7.0.html Tue, 07 Sep 2021 14:21:50 +1000 https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/ciinabox2-0.7.0.html The latest ciinabox update has some major improvements to Jenkins and Jenkins Configuration as Code infrastructure. https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/simplify-changesets-in-jenkins-pipelines.html Thu, 19 Aug 2021 13:17:45 +1000 https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/simplify-changesets-in-jenkins-pipelines.html Previously when deploying CloudFormation changes in Jenkins using the ciinabox-pipelines shared library you had to created the change set and then execute it in separate methods in your pipeline. https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/kurgan-0.4.0.html Thu, 12 Aug 2021 11:05:29 +1000 https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/kurgan-0.4.0.html With the latest 0.4.0 release of Kurgan we’ve introduce some new functionality and improved some existing as as well as added documentation to the readme. https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/guardian-0.7.0.html Mon, 09 Aug 2021 14:31:41 +1000 https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/guardian-0.7.0.html The 0.7.0 release of Guardian introduces the ability to schedule the enabling and disabling of alarms in maintenance groups using CloudWatch Events and Lambda. https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/bearse-2.30.0.html Thu, 01 Jul 2021 12:42:08 +1000 https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/bearse-2.30.0.html version: 2.30.0-b18 Node.js 10.x Retirement Due to AWS Lambda ending the support of Node. https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/bastion-cli.html Thu, 01 Jul 2021 12:06:40 +1000 https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/bastion-cli.html Bastion-cli is the latest tool from the base2 R&D team to provide the capability to launch and or connect to a bastion instance to connect to resources within an environment. https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/washery-database-select.html Thu, 01 Jul 2021 11:58:31 +1000 https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/washery-database-select.html In the latest release of Washery 0.3.4 we have added the ability to select one or many databases to dump for all supported Washery engines. https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/git-secret-scanning.html Thu, 01 Jul 2021 11:21:24 +1000 https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/git-secret-scanning.html Secrets are sensitive information that you want to tightly control access to such as AWS keys, database passwords or API keys. https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/pipeline-runinspector.html Tue, 08 Jun 2021 09:43:40 +1000 https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/pipeline-runinspector.html Inspector Pipeline Method - Initial Release June 4, 2021 Inspector is the latest AWS service to be incorporated into a tool which can be called within the ciinabox-pipelines library. https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/elmer-key-rotation.html Thu, 06 May 2021 11:00:30 +1000 https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/elmer-key-rotation.html With the latest release of Elmer we have enable yearly key rotation on the Elmer KMS key created by the iamelmerchild Cloudformation stack. https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/vpc-v2-highlander-component-0.7.0.html Thu, 06 May 2021 10:38:54 +1000 https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/vpc-v2-highlander-component-0.7.0.html Up until now the vpc-v2 cfhighlander component always selected the first availability zones in the list return by the cloudformation function FnGetAZs(Ref('AWS::Region')). https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/sftp-cfhighlander-component-2.4.0.html Wed, 05 May 2021 14:39:06 +1000 https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/sftp-cfhighlander-component-2.4.0.html The CfHighlander SFTP component now supports teardown and recreate via a cloudformation parameter without having to destroy all of the supporting infrastructure. https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/jenkins-distribution-2.277.3.1-b1.html Thu, 29 Apr 2021 16:15:31 +1000 https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/jenkins-distribution-2.277.3.1-b1.html View the Jenkins Distribution release notes and plugin upgrades base2 plugin updates The following base2 managed plugins have been added or updated https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/jenkins-distribution-2.277.2.3-b1.html Fri, 09 Apr 2021 14:56:58 +1000 https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/jenkins-distribution-2.277.2.3-b1.html View the Jenkins Distribution release notes and plugin upgrades Base2 Plugin Updates Updated https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/cfn-vpn-auto-dns-route-generation.html Wed, 07 Apr 2021 11:34:26 +1000 https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/cfn-vpn-auto-dns-route-generation.html Cfn-Vpn now provides the capability to provide a dns endpoint to generate dynamics from the DNS record. https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/cfn-vpn-active-directory-authentication.html Wed, 07 Apr 2021 11:33:52 +1000 https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/cfn-vpn-active-directory-authentication.html Cfn-Vpn now supports Active Directory authentication and authorisation using AWS Directory Service with AWS Client VPN. https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/sftp-cfhighlander-component-2.2.2.html Wed, 07 Apr 2021 10:31:30 +1000 https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/sftp-cfhighlander-component-2.2.2.html The CfHighlander SFTP component now supports placing a AWS Transfer SFTP server inside a VPC with security groups and elastic public IP’s. https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/guardian-0.6.6.html Wed, 07 Apr 2021 10:10:33 +1000 https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/guardian-0.6.6.html Addition default alarms and events have been added for new AWS resources AWS Batch, Glue and Step Functions as well as additional alarms for RDS read replica lag https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/jenkins-distribution-2.277.1.2-b2.html Wed, 07 Apr 2021 09:54:35 +1000 https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/jenkins-distribution-2.277.1.2-b2.html View the Jenkins Distribution release notes and plugin upgrades Nested Cloudformation Changesets The latest release of Jenkins includes un updated version of the aws-sdk-java plugin which means we can now take advantage of the Cloudformation nested stacks changesets. https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/ip-prefix-lists-cfhighlander.html Mon, 22 Feb 2021 11:02:43 +1100 https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/ip-prefix-lists-cfhighlander.html Last year AWS announced VPC Prefix Lists which makes it easier to create consistent security postures and routing behaviors. https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/ciinabox2-0.6.4.html Fri, 19 Feb 2021 15:11:14 +1100 https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/ciinabox2-0.6.4.html The latest Ci.In.A.Box.2 0.6.4 release has a couple of bug fixes worth noting since the 0. https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/amazonmq-rabbitmq-cfhighlander-component.html Fri, 05 Feb 2021 14:51:07 +1100 https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/amazonmq-rabbitmq-cfhighlander-component.html AWS has announced AmazonMQ now supports RabbitMQ. We now have a highlander component to provision a fully managed RabbitMQ broker, either clustered or a single node. https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/guardian-0.6.3.html Fri, 05 Feb 2021 14:27:01 +1100 https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/guardian-0.6.3.html The Guardian 0.6.3 release introduces functionality for AmazonMQ RabbitMQ brokers, nodes and queues. https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/ciinabox2-0.6.0.html Thu, 04 Feb 2021 16:16:21 +1100 https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/ciinabox2-0.6.0.html Ciinabox2 now uses github packages for all docker images. https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/ciinabox1-0.3.0.html Thu, 04 Feb 2021 16:09:35 +1100 https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/ciinabox1-0.3.0.html Ciinabox docker images have been migrated to github packages. Ciinabox-ecs gem has been updated to pull from github, from version 0. https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/clean-bucket-on-delete-custom-resource.html Fri, 29 Jan 2021 11:34:45 +1100 https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/clean-bucket-on-delete-custom-resource.html Annoyingly CloudFormation doesn’t delete S3 buckets that have contents which led to work arounds such as retaining the bucket on delete or creating the bucket outside of CloudFormation. https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/wafv2-cfhighlander-component.html Fri, 29 Jan 2021 11:34:16 +1100 https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/wafv2-cfhighlander-component.html WAFv2 is the latest version of the AWS WAF API and with support now in CloudFormation we’ve released a chighlander component to make implementation in your cfhighlander project easy. https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/jenkins-distribution-2.263.2.3-b1.html Fri, 29 Jan 2021 11:33:57 +1100 https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/jenkins-distribution-2.263.2.3-b1.html View the Jenkins Distribution release notes and plugin upgrades Upgrade Path View the Jenkins upgrade notes here https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/guardian-0.6.0.html Mon, 07 Dec 2020 10:40:21 +1100 https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/guardian-0.6.0.html The Guardian 0.6.0 release introduces template variable substitution for alarm dimensions to make it simpler to define custom metric alarm templates. https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/elmer-security-updates.html Mon, 16 Nov 2020 12:01:51 +1100 https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/elmer-security-updates.html With this latest Elmer release we’ve improved security on the AWS account side by reducing the permission scope of the Elmer master IAM role policy and added an alias the Elmer KMS key. https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/cfn-vpn-1.0.0.html Wed, 11 Nov 2020 15:14:59 +1100 https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/cfn-vpn-1.0.0.html The 1.0.0 release of cfn-vpn introduces the latest features of AWS Client-VPN including federated authentication using SAML and route authorizations using the groups of the federated user as well as cost saving features to associate and disassociate the Client-VPN subnets. https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/washery-release.html Tue, 20 Oct 2020 13:28:40 +1100 https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/washery-release.html Washery is the latest tool from the base2 R&D team to provide the capability of cleaning an RDS database dataset. https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/guardian-0.5.4.html Tue, 20 Oct 2020 13:11:08 +1100 https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/guardian-0.5.4.html The release of Guardian 0.5.4 has now provided the capability to create CloudWatch alarms for custom metrics. https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/ciinabox2-0.5.4.html Tue, 29 Sep 2020 12:15:59 +1000 https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/ciinabox2-0.5.4.html Ciinabox 2 release 0.5.4 now provides the capability to automatically lookup the latest AMI id for the base2 baked Jenkins Agents. https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/github-packages.html Thu, 24 Sep 2020 14:22:50 +1000 https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/github-packages.html base2 is now starting to publish container images and ruby gems on github packages repository https://github. https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/ciinabox2-0.5.3.html Thu, 24 Sep 2020 13:59:03 +1000 https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/ciinabox2-0.5.3.html The ciinabox 2 0.5.3 release improves on ciinabox 2 networking features to improve network security and access. https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/bearse-2.24.0.html Thu, 24 Sep 2020 13:58:51 +1000 https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/bearse-2.24.0.html version: 2.24.0-b106 Update Summary update guardian to 0.5.3 update shelvery to 0. https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/shelvery-0.9.6.html Thu, 24 Sep 2020 13:58:33 +1000 https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/shelvery-0.9.6.html With the 0.9.6 release of shelvery we’ve improved Redshift clean up process of shared snapshots and updating of the s3 bucket policy. https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/guardian-0.5.3.html Thu, 24 Sep 2020 13:58:21 +1000 https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/guardian-0.5.3.html version: 0.5.3 Azure file check The Azure file check provides the capability to check and alter on the existance of a file and the age of the file in a Azure blob store. https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/ciinabox2-0.5.0.html Fri, 04 Sep 2020 12:23:13 +1000 https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/ciinabox2-0.5.0.html Updates Orchestrate JCASC Yaml config changes with Codepipeline Internal aplication loadbalancer for private https endpoints IAM S3 policy for default cfhighlander generated buckets Internal HTTPS Endpoints The Ciinabox 2 0. https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/bearse-2.23.0.html Thu, 03 Sep 2020 16:25:11 +1000 https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/bearse-2.23.0.html version: 2.23.0-b105 Update Summary ciinabox-v2 role permissions to deploy cloudformation to regions other than the bearse region conditional cloudtrail cloudwatch loggroup improve the secuirty of S3 buckets created by bearse archiving s3 cloud trail logs into glacier after 90 days Conditional Cloudtrail Cloudwatch Loggroup Cloudtrail has the ability to send logs directly to cloudwatch logs for quick and easy log search. https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/jenkins-distribution.2.235.5.1-b1.html Fri, 28 Aug 2020 16:31:13 +1000 https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/jenkins-distribution.2.235.5.1-b1.html View the Jenkins Distribution release notes and plugin upgrades base2 plugin updates The following base2 managed plugins have been added or updated https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/bearse-2.22.0.html Thu, 20 Aug 2020 17:51:42 +1000 https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/bearse-2.22.0.html version: 2.22.0-b104 Update Summary Guardian Version 0.5.0 to support Event Subscriptions Set Guardian default SNS topics Tag Guardian cloudformation stack with version and commit id SNS To Slack Lamabda Support for Cloudwatch Events Guardian Feature The latest Bearse update rolls out the latest changes in the Guardioan 0. https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/guardian-0.5.0.html Thu, 13 Aug 2020 11:49:52 +1000 https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/guardian-0.5.0.html version: 0.5.0 Cloudwatch Events Guardian now provides the ability to generate alerts from cloudwatch events such as RDS Read Replica failures, EC2 termination and RDS deletion. https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/ciinabox2-0.4.1.html Mon, 10 Aug 2020 12:39:26 +1000 https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/ciinabox2-0.4.1.html Updates update ecs-serice component to 2.11.0 to support iam conditions and add policy to create spot iam service linked role for Jenkins ec2-plugin update default jenkins distribution version to 2. https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/guardian-0.4.0.html Thu, 06 Aug 2020 16:34:25 +1000 https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/guardian-0.4.0.html Guardian 0.4.0 will be released with the following new features. The new version will be rolled out through Bearse. https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/bearse-2.21.0.html Fri, 31 Jul 2020 12:49:40 +1000 https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/bearse-2.21.0.html version: 2.21.0-b100 Update Summary Cloudtrail S3 access logging Cloudtrail S3 Access Logging Bearse enables Cloudtrail to capture all aws api activity within an aws account and activity is logged to s3 for longterm storage in an encrypted s3 bucket. https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/elasticsearch-0.2.0.html Wed, 08 Jul 2020 16:19:30 +1000 https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/elasticsearch-0.2.0.html Creating a multi-az elasticsearch in cloudformation is complicated so we have a highlander component that makes it simple! https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/ciinabox1-0.2.17.html Wed, 08 Jul 2020 14:05:35 +1000 https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/ciinabox1-0.2.17.html Spot instances are now configurable in ciinabox 1 by setting the spot price on the launch configuration for the Ciinabox Autoscaling Group. https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/jenkins-distribution.2.235.1.2-b2.html Wed, 24 Jun 2020 14:39:40 +1000 https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/jenkins-distribution.2.235.1.2-b2.html View the Jenkins Distribution release notes and plugin upgrades base2 plugin updates The following base2 managed plugins have been updated https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/pipeline-terraform.html Thu, 18 Jun 2020 17:05:23 +1000 https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/pipeline-terraform.html We’ve added 3 new Terraform methods into the ciinabox-pipelines Jenkins shared library. https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/pipeline-selenium.html Tue, 09 Jun 2020 11:15:38 +1000 https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/pipeline-selenium.html Selenium automates browser interactions to test website functionality however this requires infrastructure and automation to run the Selenium hub and required nodes. https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/guardian-0.3.2.html Wed, 03 Jun 2020 12:36:44 +1000 https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/guardian-0.3.2.html Guardian now supports the SSL check on internal endpoints inside a VPC with the latest 0. https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/ciinabox2-0.4.0.html Mon, 01 Jun 2020 13:13:54 +1000 https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/ciinabox2-0.4.0.html Updates Bug fix where subnet_mask config was ignored https://github.com/base2Services/base2tools/issues/2 Support for external ECS/Fargate services to run to the same ciinabox cluster External Services External services allow other build and testing tools to run on the ciinabox ECS infrastructure such as Selenium, GitLab server or Artifactory. https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/jenkins-distribution.2.222.4.3-b1.html Fri, 29 May 2020 13:22:35 +1000 https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/jenkins-distribution.2.222.4.3-b1.html View the Jenkins Distribution release notes and plugin upgrades The most notable change is the ec2-plugin update from 1. https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/ciinabox2-0.3.1.html Tue, 26 May 2020 17:27:55 +1000 https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/ciinabox2-0.3.1.html Ciinabox IP whitelisting for bitbucket outbound webhooks have been updated to the new ranges. https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/bearse-2.18.0.html Tue, 26 May 2020 15:55:49 +1000 https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/bearse-2.18.0.html version: 2.18.0-b94 Update Summary new IAM role for deploying s3 static websites increase cloudformation timeouts from 5 minutes to 20 minutes Update Guardian to 0. https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/shelvery-0.9.5.html Mon, 25 May 2020 16:59:22 +1000 https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/shelvery-0.9.5.html Previously when sharing kms encrypted snapshots with the databunker the same key was used to encrypt the snapshot copy in the databunker account. https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/guardian-sftp-tls.html Tue, 12 May 2020 11:19:45 +1000 https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/guardian-sftp-tls.html Guardian 0.3.0 will be released with the following new features. The new version will be rolled out through Bearse. https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/pipelines-ami.html Wed, 29 Apr 2020 11:18:24 +1000 https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/pipelines-ami.html This update adds some extra functionality to some AMI baking methods around AMI lookup from SSM parameters as well as additional chef options to the AMI verify method. https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/bearse-2.17.0.html Thu, 23 Apr 2020 13:20:00 +1000 https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/bearse-2.17.0.html version: 2.17.0-b92 Update Summary bug fix for the CloudFormation deployment reporter function to solve stacks deleted and recreated with the same name. https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/pipelines-changesets.html Thu, 23 Apr 2020 13:10:00 +1000 https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/pipelines-changesets.html AWS changesets allows the preview of proposed changes of cloudformations stack and how the changes will impact the resources in the stack, weather critical resources will be replaced or deleted. https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/pipelines-mfa.html Thu, 23 Apr 2020 13:00:00 +1000 https://releases.prod.tools.aws.base2.services/posts/pipelines-mfa.html Deploying to production can now be controlled using MFA devices. The device can be shared between a team or individualised per user which allows for greater security controls in deployment pipelines.