CircleCI configurations requires maintenance for deprecated Ubuntu versions

[mdebarros]

Request Summary:

Some of our CircleCI Jobs (core & supporting) are running on deprecated versions of Ubuntu:

This job is either using an Ubuntu 14.04 image, an Ubuntu 16.04 image, or the default Ubuntu 14.04-based image by specifying machine:true in config. These images (including the default image) will be deprecated May 31, 2022. Upgrade your image from Ubuntu 14.04 or 16.04 to 20.04.

Request Details:

• Deadline: TBD
• Impact (Teams): All dev teams
• Impact (Components): Potentially all components that rely on CircleCI

Artifacts:

• Artifact to consider [@contributor]

Dependencies:

• If Applicable

Accountability:

• Owner: Core team?
• Raised By: @mdebarros , DA

Decision(s):

TBD

• Approved By: DA (attendees on 26th May 2021)

Details

• Many CircleCI configurations that are part of our Core-Components and supporting services are using Ubuntu v14.x and v16.x images to execute CI job (i.e. docker builds, npm tests, etc) which will be deprecated on May 31, 2022
• Discussion on CircleCI configurations maintenance required to support Ubuntu v20.x (or newer)

Follow-up:

• Actions to implement the decisions