News

Cloud Services news and major change announcements

Current announcements

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' 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

Archive

• 2020 Kubernetes cluster migration
• 2020 PAWS migration
• 2023 Cloud VPS metrics changes
• Actor storage changes on the Wiki Replicas
• CloudVPS NAT change
• CloudVPS NAT wikis
• Cloud VPS 2016 Purge
• Cloud VPS 2018 Purge
• Cloud VPS 2019 Purge
• Cloud VPS 2020 Purge
• Cloud VPS 2021 Purge
• Cloud VPS 2022 Purge
• HTTPS enforcement at shared proxy
• Jessie deprecation
• Phasing out the .wmflabs domain
• Stretch deprecation
• Toolforge.org
• Toolforge Elasticsearch v7 migration
• Toolforge Grid Engine deprecation
• Toolforge Stretch deprecation
• Toolforge Trusty deprecation
• Tools Precise deprecation
• Trusty deprecation
• Wiki Replica c1 and c3 shutdown
• Wiki Replicas 2020 Redesign
• Wikireplicas 2020 Redesign/Wiki Replicas Cross-DB Query Data