FreeBSD The Power to Serve

Cluster Administration Team

Links:
Cluster Administration Team members URL: https://www.freebsd.org/administration/#t-clusteradm

Contact: Cluster Administration Team <clusteradm@FreeBSD.org>

FreeBSD Cluster Administration Team members are responsible for managing the machines the Project relies on to synchronize its distributed work and communications.

In this quarter, the team has worked on the following:

  • Regular support for FreeBSD.org user accounts.

  • Regular disk and parts support (and replacement) for all physical hosts and mirrors.

  • Cluster software refresh.

  • Moving more cluster services to Chicago.

  • Supporting the Grimoirelab dashboard effort.

Cluster software refresh

Except for the package builders and developer-facing ("dogfood") machines, the FreeBSD cluster mostly tracks stable/X branches.

At the time of this writing, there are 131 physical machines in the cluster. We have 54 machines on current, 61 on stable/14 and 14 on stable/13. Work continues to upgrade the remaining stable/13 machines to stable/14. The stable/12 machines have been slated for decommissioning for a while; they do not run production workloads. The remaining machines are slated for upgrading or decommissioning in the near future.

Of the 297 jails in the cluster, 222 are now on stable/14.

 12.x: Regular   2, Jails   7
 13.x: Regular  14, Jails  59
 14.x: Regular  61, Jails 222
>15.x: Regular  54, Jails   9
Total: Regular 131, Jails 297
Total installations: 428
Running -RELEASE|{-p*}: 0
Total geographic sites: 15

Moving cluster services to Chicago

Earlier this year, we started building up our new site in Chicago. This quarter, we began decommissioning older machines in New Jersey and moving services to the newer machines in Chicago. Our long-term goal is for Chicago to become our primary location. This work will take several more months to complete.

FreeBSD Official Mirrors Overview

Current locations are Australia, Brazil, Germany, Japan (two full mirror sites), Malaysia, South Africa, Sweden, Taiwan, United Kingdom (full mirror site), United States of America — California, Chicago, New Jersey (primary site), and Washington.

Our mirror site in Taiwan is experiencing an extended outage. We hope to have it back online during the first quarter of 2025.

Also during the first quarter of 2025, we expect a second mirror site in California, generously hosted by Sonic.

The hardware and network connection have been generously provided by:

New official mirrors are always welcome. We have noted the benefits of hosting single mirrors at Internet Exchange Points globally, as evidenced by our existing mirrors in Australia, Brazil, and South Africa. If you are affiliated with or know of any organizations willing to sponsor a single mirror server, please contact us. We are particularly interested in locations on the United States West Coast and throughout Europe.

See generic mirrored layout for full mirror site specs and tiny-mirror for a single mirror site.

Sponsors: The FreeBSD Foundation

Last modified on: January 30, 2025 by Philip Paeps