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WMCS project overview

What is Wikimedia Cloud Services (WMCS)?

Wikimedia Cloud Services (WMCS) empowers technical contributions to the Wikimedia software world. WMCS is a flexible computing ecosystem built on OpenStack, GridEngine, and Kubernetes.

WMCS products and resources are available for use by anyone connected with the Wikimedia movement. Support and administration of the WMCS resources is provided by a Wikimedia Foundation Cloud Services team and Wikimedia movement volunteers.

WMCS history

From 2011 until early 2017, WMCS was known as "Wikimedia Labs." The term 'Labs' was used to refer to a number of different components, and clarification was required. In 2017, the project was reorganized. The former Wikimedia Foundation Labs team and the Tool Labs Support team joined together to create the Wikimedia Cloud Services team.

Renaming of products

Efforts are underway to improve the language and branding surrounding the products and services we offer.

Working titles are now in use across some documentation. The generic compute/'Labs' environment for running virtual instances is now referred to as "Cloud VPS," and the Tool Labs PaaS environment is now referred to as "Toolforge."

WMCS products

Cloud VPS provides collaboratively owned collections of virtual private servers where users develop and maintain software projects that help the Wikimedia movement.

Toolforge provides a shared hosting/platform as a service environment for running bots, webservices, scheduled jobs, and data analysis.

Data Services is a collection of products including private-information-redacted copies of Wikimedia's production wiki databases and access to Wikimedia Dumps

Which product should I use?

VPS → Cloud VPS

If you need to run full virtual instances and are willing to administer them on your own we can provide quota to do so.

PaaS → Toolforge

If you need to run a specific webservice, scheduled job, or perform analysis but do not want to or are not able to manage a full virtual environment, this is the best place.

DaaS → Data Services

We provide replicas of the production databases and other data for analysis and experimentation. DaaS resources are available from both the VPS and the PaaS environments, though some of them may need to be requested for a specific VPS Project. In addition, the Quarry service provides database access via a web interface without project setup.

Terms of use

All WMCS resources are subject to the Wikimedia Labs Terms of Use and the Code of Conduct for technical spaces.
Toolforge tools must be open source software licensed under an OSI approved license.
Toolforge and Cloud VPS projects must not collect, store, or share private data or personally identifiable information, such as user names, passwords, or IP addresses, except when complying with the conditions listed in the Wikimedia Labs Terms of Use.

Joining and participating

Wikitech Account Holders are governed by the Labs terms of use, the Rules, and the Code of Conduct for technical spaces. The agreement to disclosure of personally identifiable information covers End-Users.

Read our Getting Started guide for detailed information on creating accounts and becoming active in our projects.

Support and administration

We use Phabricator (workboard), an IRC channel (#wikimedia-cloud ^connect), and email list (cloud) as primary support channels.

Wikimedia Cloud Services are a joint effort between Wikimedia Foundation staff and many dedicated volunteers:

Wikimedia Cloud Services team
Wikimedia Technical Operations
Community Liaisons
Toolforge standards committee
Phabricator participants
Cloud VPS project maintainers
Toolforge tool maintainers
and many more people who help by creating and maintaining documentation on this wiki and others in the Wikimedia movement

Learn more

Read our glossary of terminology
Browse existing VPS projects using OpenStack Browser.
Project administration is done through the OpenStack dashboard known as Horizon.
Toolforge (Tools) has a homepage and a directory of Tools

Other explanations

Introducing the Cloud Services Team: What we do, and how we can help you blog entry (September 2017)
What is Wikimedia Cloud Services? presentation slides (12 pages)
Video presentation: Introduction to Wikimedia Cloud Services, at Wikimania 2017 (56 minutes)

Retrieved from "https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Help:Cloud_Services_introduction&oldid=1782015"

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 [[File:What is Cloud Services? poster.pdf|thumb|upright=1.3|Poster-format overview]]
-== Overview ==
+== WMCS project overview ==
+===What is Wikimedia Cloud Services (WMCS)?===
-Formerly known as [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Labs Wikimedia Labs],'''Wikimedia Cloud Services''' ('''WMCS''') is a flexible computing ecosystem built on [[W:OpenStack|OpenStack]], [[W:Oracle Grid Engine|GridEngine]], and [[W:Kubernetes|Kubernetes]]. The project empowers technical contribution to the Wikimedia software world.
+'''Wikimedia Cloud Services''' ('''WMCS''') empowers technical contributions to the Wikimedia software world. WMCS is a flexible computing ecosystem built on [[W:OpenStack|OpenStack]], [[W:Oracle Grid Engine|GridEngine]], and [[W:Kubernetes|Kubernetes]].
-The products and resources of the WMCS project are available for use by anyone connected with the [[meta:Wikimedia movement|Wikimedia movement]]. Support and administration of the WMCS resources is provided by a [[Mw:Wikimedia Cloud Services team|Wikimedia Foundation Cloud Services team]] and [https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Volunteer_opportunities Wikimedia movement volunteers].
+WMCS products and resources are available for use by anyone connected with the [[meta:Wikimedia movement|Wikimedia movement]]. Support and administration of the WMCS resources is provided by a [[Mw:Wikimedia Cloud Services team|Wikimedia Foundation Cloud Services team]] and [https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Volunteer_opportunities Wikimedia movement volunteers].
-'''History'''
+=== WMCS history ===
-From 2011 until early 2017, WMCS was known as "Wikimedia Labs." The term 'Labs' was used to refer to a number of different [[Labs labs labs|components]] of the ecosystem, and clarification was required. The former Wikimedia Foundation Labs team and the Tool Labs Support team have joined forces as the Wikimedia Cloud Services team and have launched a campaign to improve the language and branding surrounding the products and services offered.
+From 2011 until early 2017, WMCS was known as "Wikimedia Labs." The term 'Labs' was used to refer to a number of different [[Labs labs labs|components]], and clarification was required. In 2017, the project was reorganized. The former Wikimedia Foundation Labs team and the Tool Labs Support team joined together to create the Wikimedia Cloud Services team.
-WMCS are now [[phab:phame/post/view/59/labs_and_tool_labs_being_renamed/|being rebranded]]. Working titles are now in use across some documentation. The generic compute/'Labs' environment for running virtual instances is now referred to as "Cloud VPS," and the Tool Labs PaaS environment is now referred to as "Toolforge."
+=== Renaming of products ===
+Efforts are underway to improve the [[phab:phame/post/view/59/labs_and_tool_labs_being_renamed/| language and branding]] surrounding the products and services we offer.
+Working titles are now in use across some documentation. The generic compute/'Labs' environment for running virtual instances is now referred to as "Cloud VPS," and the Tool Labs PaaS environment is now referred to as "Toolforge."
 {{anchor|WMCS Products}}
-== Our products ==
+== WMCS products ==
 * [[Portal:Cloud VPS|Cloud VPS]] provides collaboratively owned collections of virtual private servers where users develop and maintain software projects that help the Wikimedia movement.
 * [[Portal:Toolforge|Toolforge]] provides a shared hosting/platform as a service environment for running bots, webservices, scheduled jobs, and data analysis.
 * [[Portal:Data Services|Data Services]] is a collection of products including private-information-redacted copies of Wikimedia's production wiki databases and access to [[Dumps.wikimedia.org|Wikimedia Dumps]]
-{{anchor|What Product Should I Use}}
+{{anchor|What product should I use?}}
 == Which product should I use? ==
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 We provide replicas of the production databases and other data for analysis and experimentation.  DaaS resources are available from both the VPS and the PaaS environments, though some of them may need to be requested for a specific VPS Project. In addition, the [https://quarry.wmflabs.org/ Quarry service] provides database access via a web interface without project setup.
-== Terms of Use ==
+== Terms of use ==
 * All WMCS resources are subject to the [[Wikitech:Labs_Terms_of_use|Wikimedia Labs Terms of Use]] and the [[mw:Code of Conduct|Code of Conduct for technical spaces]].
 * Toolforge tools must be [[w:Open-source software|open source software]] licensed under an [http://opensource.org/licenses OSI approved license].
 * Toolforge and Cloud VPS projects must not collect, store, or share private data or personally identifiable information, such as user names, passwords, or IP addresses, except when complying with the conditions listed in the [[Wikitech:Labs_Terms_of_use|Wikimedia Labs Terms of Use]].
-== Joining and Participating ==
+== Joining and participating ==
 [[Help:Terminology|Wikitech Account Holders]] are governed by the [[Project:Labs Terms of use|Labs terms of use]], the [[Help:Rules|Rules]], and the [[mw:Code of Conduct|Code of Conduct for technical spaces]]. The [[mw:Wikimedia Labs/Agreement to disclosure of personally identifiable information|agreement to disclosure of personally identifiable information]] covers [[Help:Terminology|End-Users]].
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 Read our [[Help:Getting_Started|Getting Started]] guide for detailed information on creating accounts and becoming active in our projects.
-== Support and Administration ==
+== Support and administration ==
 We use Phabricator ([[phab:project/profile/832/|workboard]]), an [[Help:IRC|IRC]] channel ({{Irc|wikimedia-cloud}}), and email list ([https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/cloud cloud]) as primary support channels.
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 * [[:Media:WMCS_Presentation.pdf|What is Wikimedia Cloud Services?]] presentation slides (12 pages)
 * [[c:File:Introduction to Wikimedia Cloud Services.webm|Video presentation: Introduction to Wikimedia Cloud Services, at Wikimania 2017]] (56 minutes)
 [[Category:Documentation]]