Arnaud Rebillout
salsa profile: https://salsa.debian.org/arnaudr
gitlab profile: https://gitlab.com/arnaudr
github profile: https://github.com/elboulangero
Hi I'm Arnaud, frenchy in his forties, living in Vietnam.
- Debian user since university back in 2005 or so
- Software engineer doing Linux/FOSS work, embedded systems at first, then moving in the distro space
- Kali Linux Developer since 2021 (day job), also became official Debian Developer the same year
Accepted Talks:
Kali Linux: Delivery of a rolling distro at scale with Mirrorbits
Kali Linux is a rolling Linux distribution based on Debian. Packages and images are distributed via a network of community mirrors, and a redirector in front. In practice, it means that APT requests hit http.kali.org and get redirected to a mirror close-by for the actual download.
This talk is about the redirector. After 10 years of using mirrorbrain, Kali switched to mirrorbits 2 years ago. We’re going to talk about this transition, present the mirrorbits project, and highlight some recent developments that made it suitable for a fast-changing repository such as a rolling Linux distro.
We will also talk about the operational side of things, after running it for 2 years in production: how much time does it cost to maintain this setup, what kind of machine is required to run the redirector, etc etc.
The audience for this talk: sysadmins for FOSS projects, and more generally anyone who want to know how FOSS can be delivered to a worldwide audience at scale without a CDN. We also want to bring some data points for those who wonder what it would take to run a redirector for Debian again.