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Welcome to the Wikitech documentation portal.

This wiki hosts documentation related to the technical projects and infrastructure maintained by the Wikimedia Foundation. This includes the production systems, Wikimedia Cloud Services virtual private server (VPS) computing infrastructure, Tool Labs platform as a service (PaaS) hosting environment, and many other technical projects such as the Beta cluster used to validate new software before deployment to the production cluster.

This wiki is not a Wikimedia Unified Login (SUL) wiki, users must create an account.

Portals

Introduction

An overview of the Wikimedia Cloud Services (WMCS) products and ecosystem.

Getting started

Account creation and quick start guides. Help for WMCS in general can be found at Help:Contents.

Wikimedia VPS

Wikimedia VPS (WMCS VPS or VPS) provides a cloud computing infrastructure powered by OpenStack for projects related to the Wikimedia movement.

Tool Labs

Tool Labs (or Tools) is a hosting environment for developers working on tools (bots, webservices, scheduled jobs) that help maintain and support Wikimedia wikis.

Data Services

Data offerings for analysis, Tool building, and exploration. Both WMCS VPS and Tool Labs can access DaaS resources.

Wikitech

The production part of this wiki, also known as Wikitech, contains internal technical documentation for the Wikimedia Foundation. Documentation is available on most aspects of the technical operations of the production server clusters as well as information on how to become involved in improving the underlying infrastructure of Wikimedia projects as volunteer. For technical documentation of MediaWiki software, see MediaWiki.org.

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 This wiki hosts documentation related to the technical projects and infrastructure maintained by the [[:foundation:Home|Wikimedia Foundation]].  This includes the [[Portal:Wikitech|production systems]], [[Help:Cloud_Services_Introduction|Wikimedia Cloud Services]] [[w:Virtual_private_server|virtual private server (VPS)]] computing infrastructure, [[Portal:Tool Labs|Tool Labs]] [[w:Platform_as_a_service|platform as a service (PaaS)]] hosting environment, and many other technical projects such as the [[Nova Resource:Deployment-prep|Beta cluster]] used to validate new software before [[Deployments|deployment to the production cluster]].
+This wiki is not a [[w:Wikipedia:SUL|Wikimedia Unified Login (SUL) wiki]], [[Help:Getting_Started#Create_a_User_Account|users must create an account]].
 <div class="mw-tpl-portal-list"><div class="mw-tpl-portal-list-caption">Portals</div>
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 |name=Introduction
 |link=Help:Cloud_Services_Introduction
-|description=An overview of Wikimedia Cloud Services products and ecosystem.
+|description=An overview of the Wikimedia Cloud Services ('''WMCS''') products and ecosystem.
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 |name=Getting started
 |link=Help:Getting Started
+|description='''Account creation''' and '''quick start guides'''.  Help for WMCS in general can be found at [[Help:Contents]].
-|description=This wiki is not a [[w:Wikipedia:SUL|Wikimedia Unified Login (SUL) wiki]], so users must [[Special:UserLogin/signup|create an LDAP account]] to edit here. The same LDAP account is also used by [[gerrit:|Gerrit]], [[phab:|Phabricator]], [[Portal:Wikimedia Labs|Wikimedia Labs]], and [[toollabs:|Tool Labs]]. You will need to provide a shell username on signup, which will be used to login to instances on Labs. Documentation for [[toollabs:|Tool Labs]] can be found at [[Help:Tool Labs]]. Help for Labs in general can be found at [[Help:Contents]].
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-|name=Wikimedia Labs
+|name=Wikimedia VPS
 |image=File:Wikimedia labs logo.svg
 |alt=Wikimedia Labs logo
 |link=Portal:Wikimedia Labs
-|description='''Wikimedia Labs''' (or '''Labs''') provides a cloud computing infrastructure powered by [[w:OpenStack|OpenStack]] for projects related to the [[meta:Wikimedia movement|Wikimedia movement]]. Much of the configuration for Labs projects is managed using [[mw:Extension:OpenStackManager|OpenStackManager]] provided special pages on this wiki. The environment also provides auxiliary services, such as shared NFS storage, and access to live replica databases of Wikimedia Foundation wikis.
+|description='''Wikimedia VPS''' ('''WMCS VPS''' or '''VPS''') provides a cloud computing infrastructure powered by [[w:OpenStack|OpenStack]] for projects related to the [[meta:Wikimedia movement|Wikimedia movement]].
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 |alt=Wikimedia Tool Labs logo
 |link=Portal:Tool Labs
-|description='''Tool Labs''' (or '''Tools''') is a hosting environment for community developers working on tools and bots that help users maintain and use Wikimedia wikis. Tool Labs provides access to [[Help:Tool Labs/Database|replicas of Wikimedia databases]] and other services that allow developers to easily compute analytics, do bot work, and create tools to help editors and other volunteers in their work. The infrastructure is supported by a dedicated [[Nova Resource:Tools|group of Wikimedia Foundation staff and volunteers]].
+|description='''Tool Labs''' (or '''Tools''') is a hosting environment for developers working on tools (bots, webservices, scheduled jobs) that help maintain and support Wikimedia wikis.
-All Tool Labs web applications are served through [[toollabs:|tools.wmflabs.org]]. A [[toollabs:hay/directory/|directory]] of some of the tools is available.
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 |alt=Wikimedia Tool Labs logo
 |link=Portal:Data_as_a_Service
-|description=Data offerings for analysis, Tool building, and exploration.
+|description=Data offerings for analysis, Tool building, and exploration.  Both '''WMCS VPS''' and '''Tool Labs''' can access DaaS resources.
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