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• Toolforge technical documentation
• Toolforge administrator documentation
• Help and communication
• List of tools
• Terms and conditions
• Rules
• Glossary
• Technical documentation resources

Getting started

• Cloud Services, Cloud VPS, and Toolforge overview
• About Toolforge
• Toolforge quickstart guide
• How-tos, tutorials and walkthroughs
• Create a Wikimedia developer account
• Access Toolforge instances with PuTTY and WinSCP
• Troubleshooting Toolforge

Developing tools

• Tool accounts
• Developing successful tools
• Develop tools in Java
• Develop tools in Mono/.NET
• Develop tools in Python
• Develop tools using Pywikibot framework
• Develop tools in Rust
• Web servers for tools
• Jobs framework
• Raw Kubernetes jobs (using API)

Backends

• Kubernetes (default)
• Grid engine (Deprecated, Don't use)

Additional documentation

• Version control in Toolforge
• Elasticsearch for Toolforge
• Redis for Toolforge
• Dumps and Toolforge
• Database
• Contributing

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Overview

This page contains links to Toolforge tutorials and developer experiences.

Tutorials

Python

More about Toolforge and support for Python

Libraries

• toolforge Python helper library and usage by Legoktm
• Using pywikibot on Labs by Russell Blau

flask

• Python flask application stub with OAuth support
  • A detailed tutorial on setting up a Python 3 flask webservice running on Kubernetes and using OAuth for authentication.
• Getting started with flask by Pathoschild

Django

• Python Django application stub with OAuth support
  • A detailed tutorial on setting up a Python 3 Django webservice running on Kubernetes and using OAuth for authentication.

Node.js

• Node.js application with stub OAuth support
  • A detailed tutorial on setting up a node.js express webservice running on Kubernetes and using OAuth for authentication.

PuTTY and WinSCP

• How to access Toolforge instances with PuTTY and WinSCP

GitHub

• How to set up automatic updates from a GitHub repository
  • Step-by-step instructions for setting up a tool to be automatic updated whenever its GitHub repository is pushed to.

Developer stories

Migrating from Toolserver to Toolforge

• Personal experiences migrating from Toolserver to Toolforge by Magnus Manske