My presentation on openSUSE Asia Summit 2023 in Chongqing University of Post and Telecommunication, Chongqing China 21 October 2023

1. M. Edwin Zakaria
openSUSE
medwin@opensuse.org
medwinz@gmail.com
Managing Indonesia
openSUSE community
Mirror Infrastructure
Do we still need a mirror?
openSUSE.Asia Summit 2023, CQUPT Chongqing China
21/10/2023

2. About
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M. Edwin Zakaria
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Linux user since 1998
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openSUSE since 6.2 around 1999
https://en.opensuse.org/User:Medwin
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openSUSE member
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openSUSE Board Election Committee
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openSUSE Indonesia co-admin for web site (https://opensuse.id)
and admin for id mirror (https://repo.opensuse.id
https://twrepo.opensuse.id)

3. openSUSE
Indonesia
Community

4. A brief history
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openSUSE Indonesia Community established on 23 Juli 2007
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We do regular meetup every month (before pandemic),
currently discussion mainly through telegram group :-)
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Discuss about openSUSE implementation for our regular usage
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New technology/software and how to use it

5. Current condition
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FB group, 4592 member on October 2023
https://www.facebook.com/groups/opensuse.indonesia
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Twitter @opensuseID 639 followers
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Telegram group t.me/openSUSE_ID
1235 member as of October 2023
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YouTube channel opensuse.id
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFGB0Tsqn45oBfJyfi-tJVg

6. Web presence
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Homepage https://opensuse.id
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Repository https://repo.opensuse.id
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Repository https://twrepo.opensuse.id

7. Web presence
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Website https://opensuse.id

8. Web presence
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Community repository https://repo.opensuse.id

9. Web presence
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Community repository https://twrepo.opensuse.id

10. openSUSE Indonesia Community Repo
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Indonesia has quite a number of openSUSE users and installations.
Mirror is one of the key success of distributing openSUSE to the user.
Availability of the mirror play an important role in the life cycle of a
distribution.
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Before the Indonesia community had its own mirrors, usually iso
download and update traffic would be directed to Singapore, Taiwan
or Japan. Since May 22, 2018 the Community has its own opensuse
mirror (https://repo.opensuse.id), and start on November 29, 2019
we also manage our own tumbleweed mirror (
https://twrepo.opensuse.id). Both of mirror are located in Jakarta
Indonesia, in two separated building.

11. openSUSE Indonesia Community Repo
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All the repositories infrastructures are donation.
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repo.opensuse.id is located in my office with 50 mbps bandwidth
to international gateway and 100 mbps to Indonesian local loop
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twrepo.opensuse.id mirror is located in one data center in
Jakarta, donated by one streaming company. It has 1 Gbps
international link (shared)
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No guarantee that it will keep provide the mirror service

12. openSUSE Indonesia Community Repo
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There are other repo in Indonesia but it seems less maintain,
eg:
– http://repo.ugm.ac.id/opensuse/ located in Jogja
– https://buaya.klas.or.id/opensuse/ located in Surabaya
– https://mr.heru.id/opensuse/

13. openSUSE Indonesia Community Repo
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Indonesia community repo is serving openSUSE user for
Indonesia and SE Asia like Singapore, Malaysia, Vietnam,
Thailand

14. openSUSE Indonesia Community Repo

15. repo.opensuse.id
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Start operating on May 22, 2018
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Mainly for Leap iso download and Leap update
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Access to stage.opensuse.org
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Tumbleweed repo sync from twrepo.opensuse.id
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Qemu/KVM machine 4vCPU, 16GB RAM, 4.5 TB disk
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Leap 15.4
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Daily avg users = 700, daily avg hits = 165,000
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50 Mbps international link and 100 Mbps Indonesia local loop

16. repo.opensuse.id
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https://progress.opensuse.org/issues/36379

17. repo.opensuse.id

18. repo.opensuse.id

19. twrepo.opensuse.id
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Start operating on November 29, 2019
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Mainly for Tumbleweed iso download and update
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New slowroll added
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rsync to stage.opensuse.org 3 times a day (04:00, 13:00, 21:00)
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Tumbleweed repo sync to repo.opensuse.id
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vmware machine running Leap 15.5, 4vCPU, 8GB RAM, 2 TB disk
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Leap 15.5
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Daily avg users = 575, daily avg hits = 134,000
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1 Gbps international link (shared)

20. twrepo.opensuse.id
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https://progress.opensuse.org/issues/60275

21. twrepo.opensuse.id

22. twrepo.opensuse.id

23. Some metric
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https://repo-stat.opensuse.id
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In the last 6 month
– total Tx 19.5TB
– Total hits/request 28.7 million
– Total visitor 121,650
– Avg monthly Tx 3.25TB
– Avg daily hits 166,852
– Avg daily visitors 707

24. Some metric

25. Some metric
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https://twrepo-stat.opensuse.id
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In the last 6 month
– total Tx 30TB
– Total hits/request 23 million
– Total visitor 99,000
– Avg monthly Tx 5TB
– Avg daily hits 134,226
– Avg daily visitors 575

26. Some metric

27. Challenge
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Lack of infrastructure and bandwidth, we are fully self funded
community :)
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We ask some university to provide repository for openSUSE
but it seems it is not their priority
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Sometimes vm or disk broken

28. Challenge
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https://progress.opensuse.org/issues/110752

29. Do we still need mirrors
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Since August 2023 openSUSE start using CDN (content delivery
network) --
https://news.opensuse.org/2023/07/31/try-out-cdn-with-open
suse-repos/
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I carefully watch the traffic on August – September 2023 and it
seems very little change in our repository. It can be because
user does not use the ris (repository index service) to utilize
cdn.

30. Do we still need mirrors

31. Do we still need mirrors

32. Thank You

33. Join Us at www.opensuse.org

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