How we reduced core unit boot time from hours to minutes
- ID
- 2012
- Status
- new
- Published
- 02 Jun 2026, 12:53 AM
- Fetched
- 27 Jun 2026, 8:23 PM
- Provider
- Cloudflare Blog
- Category
- infrastructure
- Original URL
- https://blog.cloudflare.com/optimizing-core-unit-boot-time/
- Source URL
- https://blog.cloudflare.com/rss/
Excerpt
We investigated why firmware updates were causing our core servers to take four hours to reboot. By diving into UEFI data structures and iPXE automation, we eliminated unnecessary timeouts and cut boot times back down to minutes.
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