Portal:Cloud VPS
Please read the Wikimedia Cloud Services introduction first.
To participate with Cloud VPS, you will need a Wikimedia Developer Account.
This page contains information about Cloud VPS and links to developer documentation.
Cloud VPS
Instances and access
Security and policies
Horizon, proxies and puppet
Troubleshooting
Additional documentation
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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.
Cloud VPS developer documentation
See Cloud VPS help for more technical documentation related to Cloud VPS.
Terms and conditions
You must review and agree to our terms and conditions.
Account Holders who plan to use WMCS resources and products must read and agree to the following:
- Wikimedia Cloud Services Terms of Use
- Code of Conduct for technical spaces
- Agreement to disclosure of personally identifiable information (which covers End-Users).
- Cloud VPS projects must not collect, store, or share private data or personally identifiable information, such as user names, passwords, or IP addresses, except when complying with the conditions listed in the Wikimedia Cloud Services Terms of Use.
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.
Join an existing project
- Choose a project to join with OpenStack browser.
- Request membership by creating a Phabricator task and assigning it directly to the project administrator(s).You can find the list of project admins by going to https://openstack-browser.toolforge.org/project/<project-name>.
Create a new project
Follow the instructions on the "Cloud-VPS (Project-requests)" phabricator task.
Add members and admin users to a project
Project admins can add new members or grant administrative permissions to members via https://horizon.wikimedia.org/project/member/
Log at #wikimedia-cloud connect that you added/granted admin to the member.
Access an instance
Learn about project instances
To learn more about project instances, read the project instances documentation.
Log your actions
See also: Tool:Stashbot
It is best practice to log changes to all instances of your project.
Wikimedia Cloud Services provides a Server Admin Log for users to log their project server administration actions on.
You can add a log entry in the #wikimedia-cloud connect channel on Libera Chat by sending a message like: !log <projectname> <message>
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-cloudconnect, the bridged Telegram group, or the bridged Mattermost channel
- Discuss via email after you subscribed to the cloud@ mailing list
Receive mail announcements about critical changes
Subscribe to the cloud-announce@mailing list (all messages are also mirrored to the cloud@ list)
Track work tasks and report bugs
Use the Phabricator workboard #Cloud-Services for bug reports and feature requests about the Cloud VPS infrastructure itself
Learn about major near-term plans
Read the News wiki page
Read news and stories about Wikimedia Cloud Services
Read the Cloud Services Blog (for the broader Wikimedia movement, see the Wikimedia Technical Blog)
Last edited on 16 March 2022, at 19:06
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