News

Cloud Services news and major change announcements

Current announcements

Toolforge Grid Engine Deprecation

Toolforge Grid Engine is being deprecated in preparation of shutting down

Recently completed

2023 Cloud VPS metrics changes

Diamond, Graphite, and statsd are being removed. Grafana is moving to https://grafana.wmcloud.org

Cloud VPS 2022 Purge

We are asking project members to claim their active Cloud VPS projects and also explicitly tell us about projects that are no longer needed.

2023 ToolsDB upgrade

ToolsDB is now running MariaDB 10.4, and is using Ceph-based storage

Stretch deprecation

Debian Stretch is being removed from Cloud VPS.

Toolforge Stretch deprecation

Hosts running Debian Stretch (9.x) as an operating system are being removed from the Toolforge infrastructure.

Archive

• 2020 Kubernetes cluster migration
• 2020 PAWS migration
• 2023 Cloud VPS metrics changes
• 2023 ToolsDB upgrade
• Actor storage changes on the Wiki Replicas
• CloudVPS NAT wikis
• Cloud VPS 2016 Purge
• Cloud VPS 2018 Purge
• Cloud VPS 2019 Purge
• Cloud VPS 2020 Purge
• Cloud VPS 2021 Purge
• Cloud VPS 2022 Purge
• HTTPS enforcement at shared proxy
• Jessie deprecation
• Phasing out the .wmflabs domain
• Stretch deprecation
• Toolforge.org
• Toolforge Elasticsearch v7 migration
• Toolforge Grid Engine deprecation
• Toolforge Stretch deprecation
• Toolforge Trusty deprecation
• Tools Precise deprecation
• Trusty deprecation
• Wiki Replica c1 and c3 shutdown
• Wiki Replicas 2020 Redesign
• Wikireplicas 2020 Redesign/Wiki Replicas Cross-DB Query Data

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• Read the News wiki page

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

Read stories and WMCS blog posts

Read the Cloud Services Blog (for the broader Wikimedia movement, see the Wikimedia Technical Blog)