In January this year, we let the community know that we were going to be moving datacenters ( see https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/fedora-datacenter-move-later-this-year-2025-version/ ). Some things have changed a little, so here’s some updates on the progress of this move and some more detailed plans.

Back in that initial post, we were targeting May to switch to the new datacenter, but due to various issues beyond our control, the current plan is now to switch to the new datacenter the week of June 16th. This is the week after DevConf.cz, and two weeks after Flock.

We already have new hardware in the new datacenter and should be getting access to it in the coming weeks. Then, we will build out a copy of our existing infrastructure there. Anything that can be setup and prepped for the move will be. After that, in May we hope to move a few things that are somewhat isolated from the rest of our infrastructure (OpenQA, Fedora CoreOS, and possibly more).

Then, the week of June 16th we will migrate applications and data to the new datacenter.

Fedora Project users should not notice much during this change. Mirrorlists, mirrors, docs, and other user facing applications should continue working as always. Updates pushes may be delayed a few days while the switch happens. Our goal is to keep any end user impact to a minimum.

For Fedora Contributors, Monday and Tuesday we plan to “move” the bulk of applications and services. Contributors should avoiding doing much on those days as services may be moving around or syncing in various ways. Starting Wednesday, we will make sure everything is switched and fix problems or issues as they are found. Thursday and Friday will continue stabilization work.

It’s worth noting that some things are not included in this move:

• pagure.io is not moving now (It will likely move later in the year, details on that later!), so it should be available the entire time of the switch.
• discussion.fedoraproject.org is not affected.
• mirrorlists and all static content like docs, fedoraproject.org download site, etc.

The following week the newest of the old hardware in our old datacenter will be powered off and shipped to the new datacenter. This hardware will add additional capacity to some systems like openqa and builders.

Finally after that we will rebuild our staging setup. Some of that work may be done in advance, but we will be focusing on the production setup.

This move will get us moved to new (faster!) hardware, increase capacity in various of our systems, add ipv6 connectivity, move to power10, and leave us room to grow and add more as needed later. Thanks in advance for your patience with this move.