Help:Cloud VPS user roles and rights

Cloud VPS

• Cloud VPS technical documentation
• Cloud Services, Cloud VPS, and Toolforge overview
• Cloud VPS project
• Cloud VPS user roles and rights
• Help and communication
• Glossary
• Technical documentation resources

Instances and access

• Set up a Cloud VPS Instance
• Access Cloud VPS Instances
• Access Cloud VPS Instances with PuTTY and WinSCP
• Add Disk Space to instances (detachable volumes)

Security and policies

• Security groups and firewall settings
• Sudo policies
• Server groups

Horizon, proxies and Puppet

• About Horizon
• Floating IP addresses
• Proxy to reach Cloud VPS server
• Puppet on Cloud VPS
• Standalone puppetmaster

Additional documentation

• Set up a Cloud VPS Instance using MediaWiki-Vagrant
• Set up a Cloud VPS Instance using LAMP stack
• Development recommendations for easily moving to production

Programmatic usage

• OpenStack APIs
• Terraform

Administration

• Cloud VPS infrastructure
• Administrator documentation
• Administrator runbooks

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This page contains information about Wikimedia Cloud VPS user roles and rights.

Accounts you will need

In order to perform many of the tasks related to this wiki and Cloud Services projects, you will need to sign up for both of the following accounts.

Account Type	Description	Where to sign up
Wikimedia account	Wikimedia single user login (SUL) account allows you to log into general wikis like Wikipedia, MediaWiki, and MetaWiki	Create Wikimedia account
Wikimedia developer account	Wikimedia developer account allows you to log into Wikitech, Phabricator, Gerrit and other developer tools.	Create Wikimedia developer account

Users and permissions

Permission	Logged-in users	Project viewer	Project member	Cloud admins
Add and manage your public SSH keys	X	X	X	X
SSH to project instances		X	X	X
Manage project membership and user roles			X	X
Create or manage instances			X	X
Allocate and associate public IP addresses, and add public DNS entries to instances			X	X
Manage security groups and rules			X	X
Manage available puppet classes and variables			X	X
Manage sudo policies			X	X
Create/delete Cloud VPS projects				X
Create and manage DNS domains				X

Gaining specific permissions

The following people can grant Project viewer or member rights:

• Project members. Project members can grant access on projects they are members of. You can find Project members listed on the individual pages for their projects.
• Cloud VPS admins. Cloud admins, including Wikimedia Cloud Services staff and trusted community volunteers, can manage membership and Project admin status in any 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, 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 a subproject of the #Cloud-Services Phabricator project to track confirmed bug reports and feature requests about the Cloud Services 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)