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https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/infrastructure.git
synced 2026-09-07 04:34:25 +02:00
Christian Heusel
2e666c1bee
Since the mirror had unreliable network in the recent times we decided to reboot it at the danger of it going away like the america and asia boxes. As it did not come back after the reboot it's now time to say goodbye. Signed-off-by: Christian Heusel <christian@heusel.eu>
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# Geo mirrors
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DevOps team maintain a geo mirror across the world. The Geo mirror is public facing on geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com domain and it will resolve the closest to the location of the requester mirror.
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## Locations
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| Mirror | Location |
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| ----------------------------------------- | --------------------------- |
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| https://berlin.mirror.pkgbuild.com/ | Berlin (Germany) |
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| https://frankfurt.mirror.pkgbuild.com/ | Frankfurt (Germany) |
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| https://johannesburg.mirror.pkgbuild.com/ | Johannesburg (South Africa) |
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| https://london.mirror.pkgbuild.com/ | London (United Kingdom) |
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| https://losangeles.mirror.pkgbuild.com/ | Los Angeles (United States) |
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| https://singapore.mirror.pkgbuild.com/ | Singapore |
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| https://taipei.mirror.pkgbuild.com/ | Taipei (Taiwan) |
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| https://umea.mirror.pkgbuild.com/ | Umea (Sweden) |
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## Requirements
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- Host with Arch Linux installed
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- root access provided
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- Enough storage to host repos / debugrepos (at least)
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- Bandwidth (depends on location)
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## Adding a new mirror box
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- Add new entries in `hosts` file under `mirrors` and `geo_mirrors` sections
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- Adjust terraform `tf-stage1/archlinux.tf` to include the IPv4 and IPv6 entries of the new server
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- Adjust terraform `tf-stage1/templates.tf` to include the IPv4 and IPv6 entries of the new server as a `NS` record for `geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com`
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- Add a new files in `host_vars`
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- `host_vars/<fqdn>/misc`
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Containing all the information for the mirror itself
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- `host_vars/<fqdn>/vault_wireguard.yml`
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Containing the wireguard private key in encrypted vault
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## Ansible Playbooks execution
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| Playbook | Roles | Reason | Hosts (limits) |Comments |
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| ----------- | ----------- | ----------- | ----------- | ----------- |
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| install_arch | All | Install Arch | | Optional if you can |
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| mirrors.yml | All | Setup mirror | `<fqdn>` | |
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| redirect.archlinux.org.yml | dyn_dns | Make TXT records | | |
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| repos.archlinux.org.yml | dbscripts | Allow debug repo syncing | | |
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| mirrors.yml | geo_dns | Add new domain to DNS | All other mirrors from geo.mirror | |
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| monitoring.archlinux.org.yml | wireguard,prometheus | Allow loki and prometheus to fetch data | | |
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| archlinux.org.yml | postgres,wireguard | Allow wireguard IP to connect for Mirror check | | Optional see Check Location below |
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### Add mirror in geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com
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Add mirror IP and FQDN in archweb admin https://archlinux.org/admin/mirrors/mirror/ under the `geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com` entry.
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### Check Location (optional)
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If you want the server to check for ping and stats create an entry in:
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https://archlinux.org/admin/mirrors/checklocation/
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