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Revision as of 17:13, 15 February 2022

Cloud Services news and major change announcements

Toolforge Stretch deprecation: Hosts running Debian Stretch (9.x) as an operating system are being removed from the Toolforge infrastructure.
Cloud VPS 2021 Purge: We are asking project members to claim their active Cloud VPS projects and also explicitly tell us about projects that are no longer needed.

Database as a Service in Cloud VPS: Horizon now provides a web interface for creating and managing database servers, databases, and database users.
Wiki Replicas 2020 Redesign: Wiki Replicas' architecture is being redesigned for stability and performance. Cross database JOINs will not be available and a connection will only allow querying its associated DB.
HTTPS enforcement at shared proxy: TLS encryption enforced via redirect at domain proxy service
Cloud VPS 2020 Purge: We are asking project members to claim their active Cloud VPS projects and also explicitly tell us about projects that are no longer needed.
Phasing out the .wmflabs domain: New instances created in Cloud VPS projects will only be in DNS as <host>.<project>.eqiad1.wikimedia.cloud
2020 PAWS migration: New domain names for the PAWS hub and paws-public and a new Kubernetes cluster underneath
Toolforge.org hostname migration for Toolforge: tools.wmflabs.org/$TOOL is being replaced with $TOOL.toolforge.org for all Toolforge hosted webservices
Jessie deprecation: Remove support for Debian Jessie prior to upstream End Of Life for release

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 == Current announcements ==
+; [[/Toolforge Stretch deprecation|Toolforge Stretch deprecation]]
+: Hosts running Debian Stretch (9.x) as an operating system are being removed from the Toolforge infrastructure.
 ; [[/Cloud VPS 2021 Purge|Cloud VPS 2021 Purge]]
 : We are asking project members to claim their active Cloud VPS projects and also explicitly tell us about projects that are no longer needed.
+== Recently completed ==
 ; [[Help:Adding_a_Database_to_a_Cloud_VPS_Project|Database as a Service in Cloud VPS]]
 : Horizon now provides a web interface for creating and managing database servers, databases, and database users.
-== Recently completed ==
 ; [[/Wiki_Replicas_2020_Redesign|Wiki Replicas 2020 Redesign]]
 : Wiki Replicas' architecture is being redesigned for stability and performance. ''Cross database JOINs'' will not be available and a connection will only allow querying its associated DB.