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{{short description|technical computing infrastructure created to support software for Wikimedia}}
{{Information page|WP:WMCS|WP:WMFCLOUD}}
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| owner = [[WP:Wikimedia Foundation|Wikimedia Foundation]]
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'''Wikimedia Cloud Services''' ('''WMCS''') (formerly known as '''WMFLabs''' or Labs) 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. 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 team]] and [[Wikimedia movement]] volunteers.
The WMCS project is managed from the [[wikitech:|Wikitech]] wiki which also hosts technical docs about the Foundation's main servers (aka the ''[[Deployment environment#Production|production]]'' environment).
[[File:What is Cloud Services? poster.pdf|thumb]]

== Overview ==
{{Main|wikitech:Help:Cloud Services Introduction}}
The project uses [[OpenStack]] to provide developers with instances to help them debug and test software updates and changes. Each instance is a virtual environment that can be shared with others. This allows developers to test configurations before they are deployed to the production environment.

== Access ==
Anybody is allowed to [[wikitech:Special:CreateAccount|create a Wikitech account]] which can be used to request access to Toolforge or Cloud VPS, but all software must be released under a free license per [[wikitech:Wikitech:Cloud Services Terms of use]]. Related help can be found at [[wikitech:Help:Contents]].

==Services ==
=== Cloud VPS ===
{{Shortcut|WP:VPS}}
[[wikitech: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.

=== Toolforge  ===
{{Shortcut|WP:TOOLFORGE}}{{anchor|Wikimedia Tool Labs|Tool Labs}}[[File:Toolforge logo with text.svg|105px|right]]
{{main|Wikitech:Portal:Toolforge}}
Software tools, including scripts and bots related to maintaining WMF projects, can be hosted on the Wikimedia Toolforge servers. Additional help for developers may be found at [[wikitech:Help:Toolforge]]. A complete listing of tools can be found at [[Toolforge:admin/tools]], and a more detailed list of some of them at [[toolforge:hay/directory]].
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=== Data Services ===
[[wikitech:Portal:Data Services|Data Services]] is a collection of products, including private-information-redacted copies of Wikimedia's production wiki databases, and access to [[wikitech:Dumps.wikimedia.org|Wikimedia Dumps]].

== Support and diagnostics ==
The list of team members that run Wikimedia Cloud Services can be found at [[mw:Wikimedia Cloud Services team]]. A list of sysadmins for Toolforge is available at [[toolforge:openstack-browser/project/tools]]. Developers may get additional help at:
* {{irc|wikimedia-cloud}} - IRC channel on [[Libera Chat]]
* [[mail:Cloud|cloud@lists.wikimedia.org]] - Wikimedia Cloud Services mailing list archives

=== Operational status ===
The operational status of Wikimedia Cloud VPS can be found at the following;
* {{URL|//shinken.wmflabs.org}} (username / password: guest / guest)
* {{URL|//graphite.wmflabs.org}}
* [[toolforge:nagf]]

;Database replication lag
* [[toolforge:/replag/|database lag as reported by the heartbeat_p database]]
* [[toolforge:/betacommand-dev/cgi-bin/replag|db replag]]

== History ==
''Wikimedia Cloud Services'' was designed to give volunteer software developers a place to write and test software for WMF operations, with the goal of increasing volunteers' ability to help maintain WMF's infrastructure. It was opened for beta testing to a limited number of users in October 2011. After several months of testing, the service was opened to the public in April 2012.

=== Migration from Toolserver to Wikimedia Cloud Services ===
{{main|mw:Wikimedia Labs/Tool Labs/Roadmap en}}

Wikimedia Cloud Services included two main branches, initially named ''Wikimedia Labs'' and ''Tool Labs''. The latter was meant to provide a replacement for the [[Wikipedia:Toolserver|Wikimedia Toolserver]], which had been hosted by Wikimedia Deutschland.

In February 2013, the Wikimedia Foundation contracted [[mw:User:MPelletier (WMF)|Marc-André Pelletier]] to provide assistance to tool/bot authors in migrating their tools and bots to the Wikimedia Labs' servers. A help page for migrating has been set up at [[wikitech:User:Magnus Manske/Migrating from toolserver]] with helpful advice. General information may be found at [[mw:Wikimedia Labs/Tool Labs/Migration of Toolserver tools]].

Some users tested the migration process by transferring their tools to WMF Labs early. The full-scale migration process began in June 2013, and was expected to be complete by December 2013. By June 2014, items on the Toolserver would be deleted. The final decommissioning of the Toolserver was on July 1, 2014.

In 2017, ''Wikimedia Labs'' was [[phab:phame/post/view/59/labs_and_tool_labs_being_renamed/|renamed]] to ''Wikimedia Cloud VPS'', and ''Tool Labs'' was renamed to ''Toolforge''. This was to remove the ambiguity, and to clarify their purposes.

;See also
* [[WMFblog:2013/05/30/preparing-for-the-migration-from-the-wikimedia-toolserver-to-tool-labs]]
* [[Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2012-10-01/Technology report#WMF and the German chapter face up to Toolserver uncertainty|October 2012 Signpost report]]
* [[Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2012-04-23/Technology report|April 2012 Signpost article on Wikimedia Labs]]
* [[WMFblog:2012/04/16/introduction-to-wikimedia-labs/]]

== See also ==
* [[Wikipedia:Wikimedia Cloud Services/Toolserver replacements|Toolserver replacements]], a table of replacements for popular English Wikipedia and Commons tools
* [[mw:Wikimedia Cloud Services team]]
* Userbox at {{tl|User wikitech}}

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[[Category:Wikimedia Cloud Services| ]]
[[Category:Wikipedia tools|Toolforge]]
[[Category:Wikipedia service teams]]

Wikipedia:Wikimedia Cloud Services - Revision history

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