diff --git a/website/content/en/status/report-2023-01-2023-03/clusteradm.adoc b/website/content/en/status/report-2023-01-2023-03/clusteradm.adoc new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..84f9e3c810 --- /dev/null +++ b/website/content/en/status/report-2023-01-2023-03/clusteradm.adoc @@ -0,0 +1,59 @@ +=== Cluster Administration Team + +Links: + +link:https://www.freebsd.org/administration/#t-clusteradm[Cluster Administration Team members] URL: link:https://www.freebsd.org/administration/#t-clusteradm[] + +Contact: Cluster Administration Team + +FreeBSD Cluster Administration Team members are responsible for managing the machines the Project relies on to synchronise 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 +* Improve the PowerPC package builders + +With new parts obtained through the FreeBSD Foundation, the builders now have new NVMEs with heatsinks and more memory. +It helped seize the heat issue, and they are building packages faster now. +* Decouple dynamic resources from the main websites + +Work in coordination with doceng and webmaster to decouple dynamic resources from the websites, www.FreeBSD.org, and docs.FreeBSD.org. + +Work in progress: + +* Large-scale network upgrade at our primary site + +New link:https://www.juniper.net/[Juniper] switches arrived at our primary site to replace the former ones. +We thank link:https://www.juniper.net/[Juniper] for the donation. +* Replace old servers in our primary site and a few mirrors + +Besides the broken CI servers, we have a few old servers with broken disks and faulty PSUs. +This task is in conjunction with the FreeBSD Foundation and donors/sponsors. +* Deploy infrastructure to mirror the websites + +Since the FreeBSD website is now mostly static, we have begun deploying infrastructure to mirror www.FreeBSD.org and docs.FreeBSD.org around the world in FreeBSD project-managed mirrors. +* Create a new search database engine for internal FreeBSD.org searching needs like mailing list and docs + +FreeBSD Official Mirrors Overview: + +Current locations are Australia, Brazil, Germany, Japan (two full mirror sites), Malaysia, South Africa, Taiwan, United Kingdom (full mirror site), United States of America (California, New Jersey [the primary site], and Washington). + +The hardware and network connection have been generously provided by: + +* https://www.bytemark.co.uk/[Bytemark Hosting] +* https://www.bbtower.co.jp[Cloud and SDN Laboratory at BroadBand Tower, Inc] +* https://www.cs.nycu.edu.tw[Department of Computer Science, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University] +* https://deploy.equinix.com[Equinix] +* https://internet.asn.au/[Internet Association of Australia] +* https://www.isc.org/[Internet Systems Consortium] +* https://www.inx.net.za[INX-ZA] +* https://www.kddi-webcommunications.co.jp/[KDDI Web Communications Inc] +* https://myren.net.my[Malaysian Research & Education Network] +* https://www.metapeer.com[Metapeer] +* https://www.nyi.net/[New York Internet] +* https://nic.br[Nic.br] +* https://your.org[Your.org] + +The Frankfurt single server mirror is the primary Europe mirror in bandwidth and usage. + +We are still looking for an additional full mirror site (five servers) in Europe to replace old servers in the United Kingdom full mirror site. + +We see a good pattern in having single mirrors in Internet Exchange Points worldwide (Australia, Brazil, and South Africa); if you know or work for some of them that could sponsor a single mirror server, please get in touch. +United States (West Coast) and Europe (anywhere) are preferable places. + +See link:https://wiki.freebsd.org/Teams/clusteradm/generic-mirror-layout[generic mirrored layout] for full mirror site specs and link:https://wiki.freebsd.org/Teams/clusteradm/tiny-mirror[tiny-mirror] for a single mirror site.