Portal:Cloud VPS

Cloud VPS

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

Instances and access

• Set up a Cloud VPS Instance
• Set up a Cloud VPS Instance using MediaWiki-Vagrant
• Set up a Cloud VPS Instance using LAMP stack
• Access Cloud Services Instances
• Access Cloud Services Instances with PuTTY and WinSCP

Security and policies

• Security groups and firewall settings
• Configure sudo policies
• Server groups

Horizon, proxies and puppet

• About Horizon
• Manage floating IP addresses
• Proxy to reach Cloud VPS server
• Puppet compiler
• Standalone puppetmaster

Troubleshooting

• Locale errors
• LAMP issues
• VPS Administrator runbooks

Additional documentation

• Resize root partition
• Adding Disk Space to Cloud VPS instances
• Development recommendations for easily moving to production

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Overview

This page contains information about Cloud VPS and links to developer documentation.

Cloud VPS Documentation

About Cloud VPS

• Cloud VPS (Virtual Private Server) provides a cloud computing infrastructure powered by OpenStack for projects related to the Wikimedia movement. The environment includes access to a variety of data services. Cloud VPS is meant to make it easier for developers and system administrators to try out improvements to Wikimedia infrastructure (including MediaWiki), power research and analytics, and host projects that are not viable in the Toolforge environment. Virtual machines running on Cloud VPS are subject to the instance lifecycle.
• At-a-glance: Cloud VPS and Toolforge: What are the main differences between Cloud VPS and Toolforge? Which environment should you choose?

Cloud VPS developer documentation

See Cloud VPS help for more technical documentation related to Cloud VPS.

Request a Cloud VPS Project

To request a Cloud VPS Project, you will need to create a new project request on Phabricator, the Wikimedia community's technical project management tool. A Wikimedia developer account is required. Please read our guidelines for project requests before requesting a 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 the Phabricator workboard #Cloud-Services for bug reports and feature requests about the Cloud VPS 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)