Dear ~okeanos users,

From Tuesday, November 5, at 15:00 EET we have observed an issue that causes disruptions in the use of the Cyclades service. The creation of new VMs, as well as the management of the existing ones (start, stop, reboot, destroy, resize), through the Cyclades Web UI and API are affected.

We are working hard in order to resolve the issue as soon as possible.

Keep in mind that no loss of connectivity is expected for the existing running VMs.

We apologise for the inconvenience,
the ~okeanos team

The snowmen started whispering amid the Christmas night
the Santa is coming full of gifts and brings the New Year's light!

Our team is merry and happy to announce that the projects more.cyclades.users and more.pithos.users are extended for one more year!

See you in 2019,
the ~okeanos team

Hello ~okeanos users,

We'd like to inform you about scheduled maintenance/upgrade on ~okeanos service between 9:00 EET and 11:00 EET on Tuesday, October 30.

Your VMs and Pithos+ files should remain unaffected. The upgrade is expected to cause minor disruptions to the ~okeanos service. Astakos, Cyclades and Pithos+ Web UIs and their APIs will be unavailable for a short time during the upgrade.

No loss of connectivity is expected for the VMs.

Thanks for your understanding,
the ~okeanos team

Hello ~okeanos users,

Due to upgrade works on our network infrastructure, the ~okeanos service will be disrupted between 10:00 EEST and 12:00 EEST on Wednesday, September 5.

During the upgrade, all running archipelago VMs will be temporarily shut down and automatically restarted afterwards. Your standard storage (drbd) VMs and your Pithos+ files should remain unaffected. The Cyclades and Pithos+ Web UI and APIs will also be inaccessible in the above timeframe.

Keep in mind that you should restart any running services that won't start automatically after a reboot.

We are sorry for the inconvenience,
the ~okeanos team

Hello ~okeanos users,

We'd like to inform you about scheduled maintenance/upgrade on ~okeanos service between 9:00 EET and 11:00 EET on Thursday, March 15.

Your VMs and Pithos+ files should remain unaffected. The upgrade is expected to cause minor disruptions to the ~okeanos service. Astakos, Cyclades and Pithos+ Web UIs and their APIs will be unavailable for a short time during the upgrade.

No loss of connectivity is expected for the VMs.

Thanks for your understanding,
the ~okeanos team

Hello ~okeanos users,

We'd like to inform you about scheduled upgrade on ~okeanos service between 10:00 EET and 12:00 EET on Monday, January 22.

Your VMs and Pithos+ files should remain unaffected. The upgrade is expected to cause minor disruptions to the ~okeanos service. Astakos, Cyclades and Pithos+ Web UIs and their APIs will be unavailable for a short time during the upgrade.

No loss of connectivity is expected for the VMs.

Thanks for your understanding,
the ~okeanos team

Hi ~okeanos users,

Early this month, security researchers reported two critical vulnerabilities: Spectre and Meltdown. These vulnerabilities allow attackers to access sensitive information (such as passwords), due to a design flaw, which affects Intel, ARM and some AMD processors. Specifically, Meltdown allows a process to bypass the mechanisms that isolate it from accessing the memory address space of other processes and the operating system. Respectively, with Spectre a process can access arbitrary memory locations of other related processes.

In order to protect the virtual machines, the physical nodes of ~okeanos have been patched with all the currently available security updates, with no service interruption. Furthermore, to better protect your virtual machines, we urge you to perform all the available security and kernel updates, as well as security updates on various applications such as web browsers, as soon as possible.

For a more thorough explanation on this subject, we suggest you read the following :

Stay safe, the ~okeanos team

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Santa's been eavesdropping your requests and he's happy to announce that the projects more.cyclades.users and more.pithos.users are extended for one more year.

Since the resource packs are limited, if you are a new ~okeanos user with no resources, hurry up and join the more.cyclades.users and more.pithos.users projects now!

Ho Ho Ho Merry Christmas, the ~okeanos team

We'd like to inform you about scheduled maintenance/upgrade for ~okeanos service between 10:00 EEST and 12:00 EEST on Tuesday, July 11.

Your VMs and Pithos+ files should remain unaffected. Maintenance is expected to cause minor disruptions to the ~okeanos service. Astakos, Cyclades and Pithos+ Web UIs and their APIs will be unavailable for a short time during the upgrade.

No loss of connectivity is expected for the VMs.

Hi ~okeanos users,

There is a rather dangerous ransomware, the WannaCry / Wcry / WannaCrypt ransomware, that has been spreading since Friday, May 12. The ransomware takes advantage of the MS17-010 vulnerability that affects Microsoft Operating Systems.

In order to protect the virtual machines from exposure to the WannaCry / Wcry / WannaCrypt ransomware, all incoming TCP traffic to ports 137-139 & 445 has been blocked.

The aforementioned firewall rules were applied to partially prevent the ransomware from spreading. Therefore, we urge you to perform all the necessary updates on your Windows virtual machines.

For a more thorough explanation on this subject, we suggest you read the following blog posts:

Stay safe,
the ~okeanos team