diff --git a/content/issues/2023-12-06-artifactory-central-brownount.md b/content/issues/2023-12-06-artifactory-central-brownount.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..69a67aae --- /dev/null +++ b/content/issues/2023-12-06-artifactory-central-brownount.md @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +--- +title: Brownout of the Maven Central mirrored repositories in JFrog Artifactory (repo.jenkins-ci.org) +date: 2023-12-06T13:00:00-00:00 +resolved: false +resolvedWhen: 2023-12-06T15:00:00-00:00 +# Possible severity levels: down, disrupted, notice +severity: notice +affected: + - repo.jenkins-ci.org +section: issue +--- + +Wednesday December 6, 2023, we'll perform a [brownout](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brownout_(software_engineering)) operation of 2 hours on the Jenkins Artifactory service at repo.jenkins-ci.org at 13:00 UTC. + +The brownout well remove all mirrors of the [jcenter artifact repository](https://jfrog.com/blog/into-the-sunset-bintray-jcenter-gocenter-and-chartcenter/) from repo.jenkins-ci.org to force Maven builds to download mirrored artifacts from the Maven central instead of our Artifactory instance. + +This [planned brownout](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brownout_(software_engineering)) is part of the effort to decrease outbound bandwidth used by the Jenkins Artifactory service. +Refer to the [removal plan](https://github.com/jenkins-infra/helpdesk/issues/3842) for more details.