openSUSE infrastructure updates for Brazil and South America

Learn about recent changes that we have done to improve the user experience for openSUSE especially in Brazil, but also for South America.

There are many challenges when addressing issues in a country as big as Brazil or an entire continent, and we need your help to improve it further.

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1. Infrastructure updates for Brazil and South America Alexandre Vicenzi openSUSE Conference 2023 opensuse-project@opensuse.org oSC23 @openSUSE
2. About me ⚫ You can call me Alex ⚫ Software Engineer @ SUSE ⚫ Package maintainer ⚫ Forum moderator ⚫ Mirror admin
3. The problem ⚫ Frequent timeouts ⚫ Slow download speeds ⚫ High latency to EU/US ⚫ Tumbleweed not widely available
4. The size of the problem Source: https://countries.fandom.com/wiki/South_America
5. Solution #1 ⚫ More mirrors ⚫ More data is available in SA ⚫ Download packages from local mirrors
6. Solution #2 ⚫ Local instance for MirrorCache ⚫ Caches metadata information ⚫ Low latency queries for Zypper
7. Solution #3 ⚫ Local instance for DownloadContent ⚫ Caches small packages not found locally
8. Solutions in numbers ⚫ 5 new mirrors in Brazil / 9 in total ⚫ 1 new mirror in Chile / 2 in total ⚫ 1 new mirror in Argentina / 2 in total ⚫ 3 instances of MirrorCache in Brazil ⚫ 1 instance of DownloadContent in Brazil
9. Not everything was fixed ⚫ No mirrors in the north and northeast ⚫ No mirrors in some countries ⚫ Mirror sync time for TW ⚫ MirrorCache instances are not balanced
10. Sponsors
11. Partners
12. Thank you