Maintenance of Terraform agent, AWS and Azure quickstarters

[BraisVQ]

We are starting to implement a maintenance policy for ods components and will be checking versions of packages and components.

Terraform Agent

Package	Current Version	Sugested version	Location
Nodejs	16.17.1	18.x	Dockerfile
Terraform	1.2.9	1.3.7	Dockerfile
Ruby	2.7.5	2.7.7	Dockerfile

AWS Quickstarter

Package	Current Version	Sugested version	Location
Terraform	1.2.9	1.3.7	.terraform-version
Ruby	2.7.5	2.7.7	.ruby-version

Azure Quickstarter

Package	Current Version	Sugested version	Location
Terraform	1.2.9	1.3.7	.terraform-version
Ruby	2.7.5	2.7.7	.ruby-version

Should the Ruby be updated to 3.x version (3.2) in the agent and quickstarters?

@nichtraunzer @tbugfinder

[tbugfinder]

Are we focussing on 4.x or 5.x ?

[tbugfinder]

How often do we apply this maintenance cycle?

[BraisVQ]

Are we focussing on 4.x or 5.x ?

This is maintenance for 4.x branch, but from now on we only need to prepare PRs for master branch and when a release/update is planed we will merge back to release branch (4.x or in the future 5.x)

How often do we apply this maintenance cycle?

The initial idea is to apply it once per 2 months, but this may change as this are the firsts iterations.

[BraisVQ]

Take into account that this issue does not mean that we must update, it is just to open a discussion about it and see if it is worth it

[BraisVQ]

@tbugfinder @nichtraunzer , if you think it is not necesary to update at this moment we open this topic agein the next Maintenance check.

[tbugfinder]

Right now, we'd like to skip the proposed version bumps.
Nevertheless especially Ruby3.x will be planned but this takes more time.

[BraisVQ]

Hi @nichtraunzer @tbugfinder , next iteration of the maintenance is here

Something I found in a recent build is that current version of ruby will reach EOL soon

[nichtraunzer]

Thanks @braisvq1996 - we have that on the radar.

[tbugfinder]

Ruby 3.x upgrade requires also (major) upgrades to cinc-auditor and kitchen-terraform.
Version 7.0.0 of kitchen-terraform is not yet released but in development.

Question again: is target 4.x or 5.x?
Do we expect an identical agent image tag or a distinct one so that active projects can migrate step-by-step?

[BraisVQ]

As far as i know, we still expect to use 4.x version

[nichtraunzer]

created a separate issue for the Ruby 3 topic #914