Help:Cloud VPS

Cloud VPS

• Cloud VPS technical documentation
• Cloud Services, Cloud VPS, and Toolforge overview
• Cloud VPS project
• Cloud VPS user roles and rights
• 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 on Cloud VPS
• Standalone puppetmaster

Additional documentation

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

Programmatic usage

• OpenStack APIs
• Terraform

Administration

• Cloud VPS infrastructure
• Administrator documentation
• Administrator runbooks

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Overview

This page contains links to technical documentation for Cloud VPS.

About Cloud VPS

Read Help:Cloud Services Introduction to understand the differences between Cloud VPS and Toolforge, and to decide which service is right for you.

User roles and rights

Learn about different roles and user rights you'll need to participate in Cloud VPS.

Learn more about the infrastructure of Cloud VPS.

Instance administration and configurations

Learn about Cloud VPS instances. What are they? How can you create, configure, and manage Cloud VPS instances? What is the Cloud VPS lifecycle?

Accessing Cloud VPS instances

Learn how to gain access to access Cloud VPS instances.

Proxies, IP addresses, and DNS names

• Learn how to use web proxies to reach Cloud VPS servers from the internet.
• Learn how to manage floating IP addresses assigned to Cloud VPS instances.
• Learn how to to manage proxies and DNS domains in Horizon.

Email management

• Learn how to manage email in Cloud VPS.

Security groups and firewall settings

Learn how to manage security groups and firewall settings.

Best practices for moving to production

Understand recommended best practices for moving to production.

Sudo policies

Learn how to configure policies for a project.

Operational documentation

The following links are mostly useful for people working on operating the Cloud itself, i.e, the engineers in the Wikimedia Cloud Services team and our technical contributors that collaborate to keep the cloud running in general.

• Administrator Documentation
• Admin SAL

Project documentation

When your VPS instance is created, a bot will create your project documentation under this category:

• Category:Nova Resource

Find it, and thank you for contributing to technical documentation about your VPS.

Troubleshooting Cloud VPS

• Fix Locale issues
• Fix LAMP issues

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 a subproject of the #Cloud-Services Phabricator project to track confirmed bug reports and feature requests about the Cloud Services 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)