Equinix Metal is sunsetting, so the Pool’s central infrastructure has to move. Packet (later Equinix) generously hosted a lot of systems for almost seven years — they were great, and I’d have stayed if I could.
Most of the move is already done: for example monitoring, storage, and build servers are running at NetActuate (plus lots of auxiliary systems).
Still need to cut over the web app, databases, and ClickHouse. DNS and NTP won’t be
affected. The website and management interface will have a short maintenance window, and graphs will go stale for most of a day while ClickHouse migrates. I’ll post updates here as things move. Full write-up:
Congrats on this successful milestone, and thanks for the hard work on the migration! Given the magnitude of the endeavor, it happened pretty much unnoticeable in the background!
Thank you for the hard work and for the write-up! It’s always interesting to get a glimpse of all the things running in the background that make the NTP Pool work.
The scores will not update for a while this evening (California time) while I snapshot that ClickHouse database and reload the most recent data into the new cluster.
Alright, ~14 billion monitoring data points have been migrated to the new ClickHouse cluster.
The data API is still running on the old cluster but querying ClickHouse in the new one. This move was without incidents (yay).