Summary of 2025 Maintenance
December 30, 2025, Christian Schulze, Joachim Folz
Here is the summary of all changes to Pegasus during the 2025 year end maintenance period.
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Changes to interactive jobs
November 8, 2024, Joachim Folz
We will soon be rolling out changes to interactive jobs. Read below how to adjust your jobs to fit the new requirements.
...Summary of 2023 Maintenance
January 2, 2024, Christian Schulze, Joachim Folz
Here is our summary of all changes to Pegasus during the 2023 year end maintenance period.
...Image Compression: Epilog
October 29, 2023, Joachim Folz
Our image compression saga concludes (for now) with a comparison
of image sizes before and after we applied our new settings
to all existing images in /enroot.
Image Compression, Part 3
October 27, 2023, Joachim Folz
Thought we were done with compression? So did we, but as it turns out, we overlooked a Squashfs parameter that is maybe even more important than compression settings: block size.
...Image Compression Revisited
October 24, 2023, Joachim Folz
We previously tested container startup times with different Squashfs compression settings. We now revisit this topic from the perspective of users importing from Docker Hub or creating custom images.
...PyPI Cache Now Live
August 17, 2023, Joachim Folz
After an extended testing period, our local PyPI cache is now live.
...Building custom container images
August 23, 2022, Joachim Folz
There is now a supported way to build container images defined by Dockerfile (or Containerfile) via podman and enroot. More below the fold.
...A(C)-pocalypse Update
August 2, 2022, Joachim Folz, Christian Schulze
A quick update on the cluster state after the AC issues we experienced on 18th July.
...PyPI Cache
August 2, 2022, Joachim Folz
We’ve installed a local cache for PyPI packages. Hosting frequently installed packages locally is nicer to PyPI and should significantly speed up package installation. Read below how to use it.
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