Planned Outage - server update/reboots - 2021-11-17 21:00 UTC

[Mark O'Brien]

All,

There will be a planned outage this week as outlined below:

Planned Outage - server update/reboots - 2021-11-17 21:00 UTC

There will be an outage starting at 2021-11-17 21:00UTC,
which will last approximately 4 hours.

To convert UTC to your local time, take a look at
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/UTCHowto
or run:

date -d '2021-11-17 21:00UTC'

Reason for outage:

We will be updating and rebooting various servers to bring them up to date.
During the outage window any services may be up and down as proxies and
gateways are rebooted.

Affected Services:

Any fedoraproject services may be affected with the exception of
mirrorlists and static web content.

Ticket Link:

https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/issue/10336

Please join #fedora-admin or #fedora-noc on irc.libera.chat
or add comments to the ticket for this outage above.


Regards,
Fedora Infrastructure Team

[Reon Beon]

So is the bare minimum to update a Fedora system (and get mirrors) put on a CDN or what?

[Kevin Fenzi]

On Tue, Nov 16, 2021 at 05:00:48AM -0000, Reon Beon wrote:
>  So is the bare minimum to update a Fedora system (and get mirrors)
> put on a CDN or what? 
I am not sure I understand your question, can you rephase?

I think you might be asking how mirrors keep working when we reboot
servers?

If so, the way our network is setup is that we have a bunch of proxy
servers. These are all over the world. Each proxy server has a copy of
the mirrormanager data and runs a pair of small rust services that
answer mirror requests. When we reboot a proxy we typically take it out
of DNS, so you never hit the ones that are rebooting. By cycling through
them you avoid seeing any outage. 

Hope that helps, feel free to rephrase if I missed what your question
was. :)

kevin

[Reon Beon]

Okay, I got it. I just couldn't word it right.