Microsoft Linux Repos Suffered 22-Hour Outage

'Everything from Visual Studio Code to Microsoft Edge and Teams package links were affected,' reports Windows Central. They note Azure's status page (which now shows the issue lasting for more than 22 hours), though however long it lasted, 'it's a virtual eternity for those whose entire ecosystem is crippled by such an outage.'
According to Ars Technica, starting on Wednesday, 'packages.microsoft.com — the repository from which Microsoft serves software installers for Linux distributions including CentOS, Debian, Fedora, OpenSUSE, and more — went down hard...'

The outage impacted users trying to install.NET Core, Microsoft Teams, Microsoft SQL Server for Linux (yes, that's a thing) and more — as well as Azure's own devops pipelines.

We first became aware of the problem Wednesday evening when we saw 404 errors in the output of apt update on an Ubuntu workstation with Microsoft Teams installed. The outage is somewhat better-documented at this.NET Core issue report on Github, with many users from all around the world sharing their experiences and theories...

The entire repository cluster that serves all Linux packages for Microsoft was completely down — issuing a range of HTTP 404 (content not found) and 500 (Internal Server Error) messages for any URL — for roughly 18 hours. Microsoft engineer Rahul Bhandari confirmed the outage roughly five hours after it was initially reported, with a cryptic comment about the infrastructure team 'running into some space issues.'

Eighteen hours after the issue was detailed, Bhandari said that the mirrors were once again available — although with temporarily degraded performance, likely due to cold caches.

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