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Nominate your favorite tools for the 2021 Coolest Tool Award! Nominations are
open until 2021-10-27.




HELP:CLOUD SERVICES INTRODUCTION

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wmflabs.org and wmcloud.org redirect here. You might be looking for the Lists of
Toolforge tools or the List of Cloud VPS projects.

Poster-format overview


CONTENTS

 * 1 WMCS project overview
   * 1.1 What is Wikimedia Cloud Services (WMCS)?
   * 1.2 WMCS history
 * 2 WMCS products and services
   * 2.1 Renaming of products and services
 * 3 Participating with WMCS
   * 3.1 Sign up for services
   * 3.2 Review the terms and conditions
 * 4 Communication and support
 * 5 Learn more


WMCS PROJECT OVERVIEW


WHAT IS WIKIMEDIA CLOUD SERVICES (WMCS)?

Wikimedia Cloud Services (WMCS) provides tools, services, and support for
technical collaborators who want to contribute to Wikimedia software projects.
WMCS is a computing ecosystem built on OpenStack, GridEngine, and Kubernetes.

WMCS products and services are available for use by anyone connected with the
Wikimedia movement without charge. Support and administration of the WMCS
resources is provided by a Wikimedia Foundation Cloud Services team and
Wikimedia movement volunteers. We maintain a Glossary of related terminology.

🎬 Video: Wikimedia Cloud Services introduction (2019)

📣 Slides: An introduction to Cloud Services presentation (2019)


WMCS HISTORY

From 2011 until early 2017, WMCS was known as "Wikimedia Labs." The term 'Labs'
was used to refer to a number of different components, and clarification was
required. In 2017, the project was reorganized. The former Wikimedia Foundation
Labs team and the Tool Labs Support team joined together to create the Wikimedia
Cloud Services team.




WMCS PRODUCTS AND SERVICES



WMCS Products Service Product Description Use Support Level VPS Cloud VPS
Provides collaboratively owned collections of virtual private servers where
users develop and maintain software projects that help the Wikimedia movement.
Use this to run full virtual instances. You are willing to administer instances
on your own. We can provide quota to do so.   PaaS Toolforge Provides a shared
hosting/platform-as-a-service environment for running bots, webservices,
scheduled jobs, and data analysis. Run a specific webservice, scheduled job, or
perform analysis. You do not want to or are not able to manage a full virtual
environment. DaaS Data Services A collection of products including
private-information-redacted copies of Wikimedia's production wiki databases and
access to Wikimedia Dumps. Create replicas of the production databases and other
data for analysis and experimentation.   The Quarry service provides database
access via a web interface. Some DaaS resources may need to be requested for
specific VPS projects.


RENAMING OF PRODUCTS AND SERVICES

We are in the process of changing the language and branding of the products and
services we offer. You may find some outdated titles and names in WMCS
documentation. Edits are welcome!


PARTICIPATING WITH WMCS


SIGN UP FOR SERVICES

To access and contribute to Cloud Services projects and tools, you will need the
following accounts:

 * Wikimedia account - this account is the single user login or SUL account you
   use to contribute to Wikipedia and its sister projects.
 * Wikimedia developer account - this account is used log into this wiki,
   Toolforge, Cloud VPS, Gerrit and other protected Wikimedia Services.
 * Gerrit - our code review system; where our repositories (repos) live. Note
   that while GitHub contains many of our public repos, you can only make pull
   requests for Cloud Services projects via Gerrit. Other Wiki projects may use
   GitHub exclusively.
 * Phabricator - our project management system; for opening tickets, suggesting
   features, and talking about our plans for the next quarter.
 * IRC - live chat channels. We have several channels related to our cloud
   servers, but the main channel is #wikimedia-cloud connect. Deployment also
   frequently uses #wikimedia-serviceops connect.
 * The ability to access instances in the WMCS environment.


REVIEW THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS

Second, make sure to 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 (covers
   End-Users).

Please pay close attention to the following terms for Toolforge and Cloud VPS:

 * Toolforge tools must be open source software licensed under an OSI approved
   license.
 * Toolforge and 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.


COMMUNICATION AND SUPPORT

We communicate and provide support through several primary channels. Please
reach out with questions and to join the conversation.

Communicate with us Connect Best for Phabricator Workboard #Cloud-Services Task
tracking and bug reporting IRC Channel #wikimedia-cloud connect
Telegram bridge
mattermost bridge General discussion and support Mailing List cloud@ Information
about ongoing initiatives, general discussion and support Announcement emails
cloud-announce@ Information about critical changes (all messages mirrored to
cloud@) News wiki page News Information about major near-term plans Cloud
Services Blog Clouds & Unicorns Learning more details about some of our work
Wikimedia Technical Blog techblog.wikimedia.org News and stories from the
Wikimedia technical movement


LEARN MORE

 * Cloud VPS and Toolforge At-A-Glance: This page provides a basic introduction
   to Cloud VPS and Toolforge.
 * Cloud VPS Portal: Information about Cloud VPS and links to help and technical
   documentation.
 * Toolforge Portal: Information about Toolforge and links to help and technical
   documentation.
 * Data Services Portal: Information about Data Services and links to help and
   technical documentation.

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Categories:
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NAVIGATION MENU


PERSONAL TOOLS

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 * Log in


NAMESPACES

 * Help page
 * Discussion


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VIEWS

 * Read
 * View source
 * View history


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SEARCH




NAVIGATION

 * Main page
 * Recent changes
 * Server admin log: Prod
 * Admin log: RelEng
 * Incident status
 * Deployments   [curr]
 * SRE/Operations Help


CLOUD VPS & TOOLFORGE

 * Cloud VPS portal
 * Toolforge portal
 * Request VPS project
 * Admin log: Cloud VPS


TOOLS

 * What links here
 * Related changes
 * Special pages
 * Permanent link
 * Page information
 * Cite this page


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