Replace Works on Arm machines affected by Equinix Metal sunset (June 2026)

[richardlau]

Refs: https://deploy.equinix.com/blog/sunsetting-equinix-metal/

As such, with this announcement, we’ll move towards an orderly sunsetting of Equinix Metal at the end of June 2026.

We're already in the (still ongoing) process of migrating all of our x64 hosts off Equinix Metal: #3597

We'll need to find out if the sunset will also cover the ARM machines we have through the Works on ARM project.

[vielmetti]

Thanks @richardlau , noted. I'll share what I know specifically about Works on Arm at Equinix Metal when I know more.

[richardlau]

We have confirmation that this will affect the existing ARM resources currently hosted on Equinix Metal.
I have sent an email to our contact at the Works on Arm program to ask if they have plans in place for affected projects such as ours (our testimonial is on https://www.arm.com/markets/computing-infrastructure/works-on-arm).

[richardlau]

I had an action item from the most recent Build WG meeting to resume the email discussion, which I've just done. I'm going to be out of office until after Easter, but the build WG email alias in on the thread in case we need to respond to anything while I am out.