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+layout: post
+title: "Brownout on Update Center (updates.jenkins.io):\n 11-12 September 2024"
+tags:
+- jenkins
+- jenkins-infra
+- update-center
+authors:
+- smerle33
+opengraph:
+  image: /images/post-images/2023/01/12/jenkins-newsletter/infrastructure.png
+overview: "We'll be using the new Update Center implementation in production for 1 day"
+discourse: true
+---
+
+== Summary (link:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Too_long;_didn%27t_read[TL;DR])
+
+The service https://updates.jenkins.io will switch its implementation to a new system during 1 day:
+
+- Wednesday 11 September 2024 from 02:00pm UTC until Thursday 12 September 2024 02:00pm UTC
+
+All Jenkins users are impacted but should not see any functional change.
+
+⚠️ Please, check that your organization respects the advertised DNS TTL or you might be stuck in the brownout longer that expected.
+
+Under the hood, any HTTP request made to this service will be redirected to a mirror close to user locations during these brownouts.
+
+== What is the "Update Center"?
+
+Jenkins link:https://updates.jenkins.io[Update Center] is a web server at the core of the Jenkins public infrastructure which distributes the plugins, tool installers, and versions index to all Jenkins servers all across the world.
+
+From the Wizard installation to regular plugin updates, if you run Jenkins then you use this service under the hood.
+
+Today, it serves around 50 Tb of data (outbound bandwidth) each month from a single Virtual Machine on AWS, which costs around $6,000 per month.
+
+In order to sustain this service and improve it, the Jenkins infrastructure team has worked relentlessly during the past years to have a new sustainable implementation for this service.
+
+The new Update Center implementation features a highly available system, which redirects user requests to a download mirror close to their location.
+There is lots of details and additional information that you can read further about in the following link:https://github.com/jenkins-infra/helpdesk/issues/2649[GitHub issue].
+
+== Why this "link:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brownout_(electricity)[Brownout]"?
+
+We have reached the point where our functional/performance tests are meeting our expectation:
+
+- All of our Jenkins controllers are using the new Update Center implementation.
+- We are using the new updates center (with DNS override) in our own networks in different geo-locations.
+- All of our Jenkins Docker image are using the new system.
+- Our initial performance tests
+- After 2 successful 1-hour brownouts
+
+== How
+
+Both current and new Update Centers are updated at the same time and serve the same index.
+
+Starting 5 weeks ago, the Jenkins infrastructure has been using the new Update Center (https://azure.updates.jenkins.io) with a client-side DNS override (`updates.jenkins.io` hostname points to this new service).
+
+During this brownout, we'll simply switch the DNS entry `updates.jenkins.io` to this new service and watch for the logs and error rate.
+At the end, we'll switch DNS back to the normal service and then analyze metrics and logs to see how the system behaved.
+
+We are confident the new system will perform as expected. We now want to execute a 1 day brownout.
+
+Please refer to the https://github.com/jenkins-infra/helpdesk/issues/2649[helpdesk ticket] for more information.