=== 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 <clusteradm@FreeBSD.org>
Contact: Philip Paeps <philip@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.
* Coordinate community mirrors.

==== Cluster refresh

The stable/13 branch will stop being supported by the FreeBSD security-officer@ team at the end of April 2026.
Several pieces of critical FreeBSD Project infrastructure were upgraded from FreeBSD stable/13 to FreeBSD stable/14 and FreeBSD stable/15.
This work is ongoing at the end of the month.

The clusteradm team refreshes the production package builders (circa 35 physical machines) on a roughly six- to eight-week cadence.
These machines run FreeBSD current snapshots.

Other machines are upgraded on an as-needed basis, keeping up with security fixes depending on how exposed they are.

At the time of this writing there are 146 physical machines in the cluster.
We have 42 machines on current, 17 on stable/15 and 80 on stable/14.

Most of the remaining stable/13 jails will be upgraded to stable/15.

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 12.x: Regular   0, Jails   7
 13.x: Regular   7, Jails  33
 14.x: Regular  80, Jails 263
 15.x: Regular  17, Jails   4
>16.x: Regular  42, Jails   6
Total: Regular 146, Jails 313
Total installations: 459
Running -RELEASE|{-p*}: 0
Total geographic sites: 13
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==== FreeBSD official mirrors

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

Our mirror site in Taiwan is experiencing an extended outage.

One of our mirror sites in Japan will get a complete hardware refresh in 2026Q2.

The hardware and network connection have been generously provided by:

* Cloud and SDN Laboratory at link:https://www.bbtower.co.jp/en/corporate/[BroadBand Tower, Inc]
* link:https://www.cs.nycu.edu.tw/[Department of Computer Science, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University]
* link:https://internet.asn.au/[Internet Association of Australia]
* link:https://www.isc.org/[Internet Systems Consortium]
* link:https://www.inx.net.za/[INX-ZA]
* link:https://www.kddi-webcommunications.co.jp/english/[KDDI Web Communications Inc]
* link:https://www.mohe.gov.my/en/services/research/myren[Malaysian Research & Education Network]
* link:https://www.metapeer.com/[MetaPeer]
* link:https://www.nyi.net/[New York Internet]
* link:https://nic.br/[NIC.br]
* link:https://sonic.net[Sonic]
* link:https://www.teleservice.net/[Teleservice Skåne AB]
* link:https://your.org/[Your.Org]

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 in Europe.

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.

The FreeBSD Foundation does not fund work on the FreeBSD.org cluster.

Sponsor: Several anonymous individuals and companies
Sponsor: https://github.com/sponsors/ppaeps
