Google Cloud backed Debian mirror

It's been some time that someone at Google told us that they had problems providing a stable mirror of Debian for use by their cloud platform. I wanted to give it a try and see what the platform can give us. At this time I was already responsible for the Debian mirror network inside Microsoft Azure.

So I started to generalize a setup of Debian mirrors in cloud environments. I applied the setup to both Google Cloud Engine and Amazon EC2. The setup on the Google Cloud works pretty fine. I scraped the EC2 setup for now, as it can neither provide the throughput, nor the inter-region connectivity to at a level that can compete with Google.

So I'd like to proudly present a test setup of a Google Cloud backed Debian mirror. It provides access to the main and security archive. I would be glad to see a bit more traffic on it. I'd like to asses if there are problems, both with synchronicity and reacheability.

They can be used by adding one of the following to your sources.list:

deb http://debian.gce-test.mirrors.debian.org/debian stretch main contrib non-free
deb http://debian.gce-test.mirrors.debian.org/debian buster main contrib non-free
deb http://debian.gce-test.mirrors.debian.org/debian sid main contrib non-free
deb http://debian.gce-test.mirrors.debian.org/debian experimental main contrib non-free

If you do and see problems, please report them back to me at waldi@debian.org. Also please note that Google stores load balancer logs for seven days, including the client IP.