Multiple unsupported / non-working Cypress Cloud workflow templates

[MikeMcC399]

Current behavior

Several Cypress Cloud templates include selections which lead to the use of unsupported Node.js versions < 18, including Node.js 12, 14 and 16.

CI Provider	Current	Suggestion
GitHub Actions	action/checkout@v3	action/checkout@v4
GitLab CI	cypress/browsers:node12.14.1-chrome85-ff81	cypress/browsers:node-20.9.0-chrome-118.0.5993.88-1-ff-118.0.2-edge-118.0.2088.46-1
CircleCI	cypress-io/cypress@3	no change needed
Azure	ubuntu-16.04	ubuntu-latest
Bitbucket	cypress/base:14.16.0	cypress/base:20.9.0
AWS CodeBuild	nodejs: latest	no change needed

Desired behavior

See suggestion column above.

Templates should align to documentation on

• Continuous Integration > CI Provider Examples links.
• https://docs.cypress.io/guides/continuous-integration/gitlab-ci

Test code to reproduce

Open https://cloud.cypress.io/
Click "New project"
Enter a project name, click "Create project"
Under section 3 "Finish CI setup", click a template selection.

Cypress Version

N/A - The cloud templates are not Cypress version-specific

Node version

unsupported versions suggested by Cypress Cloud templates

Operating System

various according to CI provider

Debug Logs

N/A

Other

References

• https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/pipelines/agents/hosted?view=azure-devops&tabs=yaml

[jennifer-shehane]

@MikeMcC399 Thanks for pointing this out and adding suggestions. I've forwarded this to the Cloud team.

[MikeMcC399]

@jennifer-shehane

• I couldn't see any change to the templates yet and Node.js 20.x moved to be the active LTS version on Oct 24, 2023 (see Node.js release schedule)
• I would change my suggestion to migrate the templates to use Node.js 20.x Cypress Docker images instead of Node.js 18.x ones.
• Docker examples on https://docs.cypress.io/ should also be updated then to refer to the new LTS version as well.

Edit: updated text above

[MikeMcC399]

The Azure template mentioned above uses Ubuntu version 16.04.

• Ubuntu 16.04 support ended in April 2021
• Azure appears to no longer offer this version.
• The minimum version of Ubuntu required to run current versions of Cypress is 20.04 (see Cypress documentation
  Getting Started > Installing Cypress > System requirements > Operating System).

[MikeMcC399]

@jennifer-shehane

Is your Cloud team planning to fix this soon? I would guess that first-time Cypress Cloud users would be the major user group affected by the non-working templates, so they would have a less than ideal onboarding experience if they try to use the existing templates.

When I prepared the PRs to update the CI documentation it was about an hour's work. I can't do the same for the templates, since they're not housed in a public GitHub repo, but I imagine it would be about the same amount of effort. So I wonder what organizational barriers are preventing getting this fixed?

[jennifer-shehane]

@MikeMcC399 It looks like it's on the Cloud teams board for next sprint, but I don't work on that team so can't commit to that timeline.

[MikeMcC399]

@jennifer-shehane

It looks like it's on the Cloud teams board for next sprint, but I don't work on that team so can't commit to that timeline.

I'll close the issue here, since the contents which need to be changed are not part of this repo, so it's not the right place to track it.

[MikeMcC399]

The templates have been updated.