Containerized Deployment

We deployed beta.peeringdb.com on a container based platform in release 2.59.0. We'll be starting integration on www.peeringdb.com in the 2.60 release.

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PeeringDB started on a bare metal LAMP stack, and was deployed to virtual machines with the release of PeeringDB 2.0 about ten years ago, but technology has advanced since then.

By deploying PeeringDB in containers, we will reduce our computing costs and more easily adjust compute resources dynamically based on load. Managing spending is important as PeeringDB is fully funded by our sponsors.

It should also help us narrow the scope of work for our volunteer Operations Committee.

We have been looking for ways to improve the efficiency of our spending since 2022 and started looking at switching to serving directly from containers in November 2023. This deployment will complete that process.

If you have an idea to improve PeeringDB you can share it on our low traffic mailing lists or create an issue directly on GitHub. If you find a data quality issue, please let us know at support@peeringdb.com.

PeeringDB is a freely available, user-maintained, database of networks, and the go-to location for interconnection data. The database facilitates the global interconnection of networks at Internet Exchange Points (IXPs), data centers, and other interconnection facilities, and is the first stop in making interconnection decisions.