Today marks the 6th anniversary of IPFS Cluster (opens new window), an application to coordinate how data is stored (or, in ipfs-slang, "pinned") across a set of IPFS daemons. IPFS cluster-peers run as sidecars to go-ipfs nodes, deciding which nodes pin what, managing pinning queues and making sure data is correctly written and replicated in multiple locations. The IPFS daemons will in turn store the blocks that form the IPFS DAGs (opens new window) and provide them to other nodes in the IPFS network or make the content available over HTTP though IPFS gateways.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://blog.ipfs.io/2022-07-01-ipfs-cluster/