=== Cluster Administration Team

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

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

The FreeBSD Cluster Administration Team consists of the people responsible for administering the machines that the Project relies on for its distributed work and communications to be synchronised. In this quarter, the team has worked on the following:

* Installed a new package builder
* Added Git support to cluster management scripts
* Put local Git mirrors on the universe machines
* Replaced disks in the UK mirror
* Replaced a disk in pointyhat (https://pkg-status.freebsd.org)
* Recycled some old dead-weight servers eating up rackspace and power at our primary cluster site
* Upgraded developer reference platforms
** ref{11,12,13,14}-{amd64,i386}
** universe*
* Installed two new aarch64 machines
** ref12-aarch64, ref13-aarch64, ref14-aarch64
** security-officer aarch64 freebsd-update builder
* Worked with asciidoc project to update https://www.freebsd.org and https://docs.freebsd.org
* Installed a new mirror server in Brazil, sponsored by link:https://nic.br[nic.br]
** gdns points everyone from South America to this mirror
** complete {download,ftp,pkg}.freebsd.org mirror
* Helped rmacklem@ participate in this year's link:http://www.nfsv4bat.org/Events/2021/Feb/BAT/index.html[NFS Bakeathon] interoperability testing event by providing a cluster machine to the testing VPN
* Ongoing day to day cluster management activity
** Putting out fires
** Babysitting pkgsync

Work in progress:

* Move pkg-master.nyi to new hardware
* Fix git fallouts
* Upgrade cluster hardware
* Upgrade developer-facing machines to 14-CURRENT
** Install ref14* machines
* Improve to the package building infrastructure
* Research and test migration away from mailman2
* Work with Git migration working group for ports tree migration
* Review the service jails and service administrators operation
* Improve the web service architecture
* Improve the cluster backup plan
* Setup powerpc pkgbuilder/ref/universal machines
* Prepare for a new mirror site in Australia, to be hosted by link:https://www.ix.asn.au[IX Australia]
* Search for more providers that can fit the requirements for a link:https://wiki.freebsd.org/Teams/clusteradm/generic-mirror-layout[generic mirrored layout] or a link:https://wiki.freebsd.org/Teams/clusteradm/tiny-mirror[tiny mirror]
