News
Cloud Services news and major change announcements
Current announcements
- Migrating Wikitech accounts to SUL
- We are asking folks with Developer accounts to connect their accounts with a SUL account to ease an upcoming Wikitech configuration change.
- Cloud VPS 2024 Purge
- We are asking project members to claim their active Cloud VPS projects and also explicitly tell us about projects that were no longer needed.
- Buster deprecation
- Debian Buster is being removed from Cloud VPS.
Recently completed
- Toolforge Grid Engine Deprecation
- Toolforge Grid Engine was shut down in March 2024 after a multi-year deprecation process
- 2023 Cloud VPS metrics changes
- Diamond, Graphite, and statsd have been removed. Grafana has moved to https://grafana.wmcloud.org
- 2023 ToolsDB upgrade
- ToolsDB was upgraded to MariaDB 10.4 and Ceph-based storage
Archive
- 2020 Kubernetes cluster migration
- 2020 PAWS migration
- 2023 Cloud VPS metrics changes
- 2023 ToolsDB upgrade
- Actor storage changes on the Wiki Replicas
- Buster deprecation
- 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
- Cloud VPS 2024 Purge
- HTTPS enforcement at shared proxy
- Jessie deprecation
- Migrating Wikitech Account to SUL
- Phasing out the .wmflabs domain
- Stretch deprecation
- Toolforge.org
- Toolforge Elasticsearch v7 migration
- Toolforge Grid Engine deprecation
- Toolforge Grid Engine deprecation/unreached tools list
- 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
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 or the bridged Telegram group
- Discuss via email after you have subscribed to the cloud@ mailing list
Stay aware of critical changes and plans
- Subscribe to the cloud-announce@ mailing list (all messages are also mirrored to the cloud@ list)
- 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)