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Cloud Services news and major change announcements

Current announcements

Cloud VPS 2024 Purge: We are asking project members to claim their active Cloud VPS projects and also explicitly tell us about projects that were no longer needed.
Buster deprecation‎: Debian Buster is being removed from Cloud VPS.

Recently completed

Toolforge Grid Engine Deprecation: Toolforge Grid Engine was shut down in March 2024 after a multi-year deprecation process
2023 Cloud VPS metrics changes: Diamond, Graphite, and statsd have been removed. Grafana has moved to https://grafana.wmcloud.org
2023 ToolsDB upgrade: ToolsDB was upgraded to MariaDB 10.4 and Ceph-based storage

Communication and support

Support and administration of the WMCS resources is provided by the Wikimedia Foundation Cloud Services team and Wikimedia movement volunteers. Please reach out with questions and join the conversation:

Discuss and receive general support

Chat in real time in the IRC channel #wikimedia-cloud ^connect or the bridged Telegram group
Discuss via email after you have subscribed to the cloud@ mailing list

Stay aware of critical changes and plans

Subscribe to the cloud-announce@ mailing list (all messages are also mirrored to the cloud@ list)
Read the News wiki page

Track work tasks and report bugs

Use a subproject of the #Cloud-Services Phabricator project to track confirmed bug reports and feature requests about the Cloud Services infrastructure itself

Read stories and WMCS blog posts

Read the Cloud Services Blog (for the broader Wikimedia movement, see the Wikimedia Technical Blog)

Current announcements

Recently completed

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