Portal: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.

Current Usage

See the openstack-browser tool for an overview of resources being used and a list of projects in our OpenStack deployment.

User Documentation

Basics

• Instance lifecycle
• Help:Access - How to access Cloud VPS and Toolforge instances
• Help:Addresses - How to assign an IP addresses and a DNS name to your instance
• Help:Instances - How to create, remove and modify instances on Cloud VPS
• Help:Proxy - How to create web proxies for instances
• Conforming to Production standards

• Help:Security groups - How to manage security groups and firewall settings

• Help:Standalone puppetmaster - Project local Puppetmaster for Puppet development
• Help:Sudo Policies - How to configure sudo policy a project
• Help for Manage DNS Domains

Project Administration

• Help:Sudo Policies - How to configure a sudo policy a project

Instance administration and configuration

• Instances

If you are baffled by the instance configuration page, here are instructions for setting up a few basic instance types:

• MediaWiki-Vagrant in Cloud VPS if you're used to mw:MediaWiki-Vagrant
• Project local Puppetmaster for Puppet development
• Help:LAMP instances
• Adding Disk Space
• Resize the root partition

Troubleshooting

• Fix Locale issues
• Fix LAMP issues

Experimental Documentation

• Help:Development recommendations for easily moving to production

Operational documentation

• Administrator Documentation
• Admin SAL