Portal:Cloud VPS

Cloud VPS

• Cloud Services overview
• Cloud VPS user docs

Get started

• About Cloud VPS projects
• Cloud VPS user roles and rights
• List of Cloud VPS projects

Instances and access

• Set up a Cloud VPS instance
• Access Cloud VPS instances
• Add disk space to instances (detachable volumes)
• Set up a LAMP stack
• Set up an instance using MediaWiki-Vagrant
• Server groups
• Sudo policies
• Unmanaged instances

Networking

• Security groups and firewall settings
• Floating IP addresses
• Web proxies for exposing Cloud VPS services to the internet

Horizon and Puppet

• Horizon web interface
• About Horizon
• Puppet on Cloud VPS
• Standalone puppetmaster

Managed storage

• Database instances (Trove)
• Object storage (S3 / Swift)

Get help

• Help and communication
• Recommendations for moving to production

Programmatic usage

• OpenStack APIs
• OpenTofu

Documentation for admins

• Cloud VPS infrastructure
• Administrator documentation
• Administrator runbooks

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To participate with Cloud VPS, you will need a Wikimedia Developer Account.

Overview

This page contains information about Cloud VPS and links to developer documentation.

Cloud VPS Documentation

About Cloud VPS

• Cloud VPS (Virtual Private Server) provides a cloud computing infrastructure powered by OpenStack for projects related to the Wikimedia movement. The environment includes access to a variety of data services. Cloud VPS is meant to make it easier for developers and system administrators to try out improvements to Wikimedia infrastructure (including MediaWiki), power research and analytics, and host projects that are not viable in the Toolforge environment. Virtual machines running on Cloud VPS are subject to the instance lifecycle
• At-a-glance: Cloud VPS and Toolforge: What are the main differences between Cloud VPS and Toolforge? Which environment should you choose?

Cloud VPS developer documentation

See Cloud VPS help for more technical documentation related to Cloud VPS.

Request a Cloud VPS Project

To request a Cloud VPS Project, you will need to create a new project request on Phabricator, the Wikimedia community's technical project management tool. A Wikimedia developer account is required. Please read our guidelines for project requests before requesting a project.

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)