Toolhub.wikimedia.org

toolhub.wikimedia.org is a catalog of tools used by the members of the Wikimedia movement. See the Toolhub project page on meta for additional details about the application's features.

Production deployment

Toolhub runs in the "eqiad" Kubernetes cluster. The service is current not active-active in the "codfw" cluster (T288685).

The helm chart and helmfile configuration for the service configure connectivity to its dependencies:

• "m5" MariaDB cluster
• search-chi-{codfw,eqiad} Elasticsearch clusters
• mcrouter managed access to "eqiad-servers" memcached pool
• url-downloader.{codfw,eqiad}.wikimedia.org outbound HTTP proxy
• text-lb.{codfw,eqiad}.wikimedia.org for MediaWiki API access without envoy proxy + custom Host headers

Testing deployment

https://toolhub-demo.wmcloud.org in the Toolhub Cloud VPS project hosts a testing deployment that is used for beta testing and demonstrations. It is deployed using docker-compose. See contrib/demo-server/README.md in the project's git repo for more information.

Local development

Local development is done with docker-compose. See docs/CONTRIBUTING.rst in the project's git repo for more information.

Visualizations related to Tools and Account creation

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  Current understanding of how different parts, systems, and audiences related to one another for the upcoming tools catalog.

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  The workflow for creating a new tool on Cloud VPS, with three different entry points. This diagram assumes that the user does not already have an LDAP account.

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  The workflow for creating a new tool on Cloud VPS, with three different entry points. This diagram assumes that the user already has an account from using Toolforge and so they don't need to go through the registration process all over again.

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  The workflow for creating a tool on Toolforge, including four different entry points.