Nova Resource:Deployment-prep

Beta redirects here. For other topics, see the disambiguation page mw:Beta beta beta.

Project Name	deployment-prep
Details, admins/members	openstack-browser
Monitoring	SAL grafana prometheus-alerts.wmcloud.org events https://beta-logs.wmcloud.org/ betacluster-alerts@lists.wikimedia.org mailing list

The deployment-prep Cloud VPS project, commonly known as the Beta Cluster, aims to provide a staging area that resembles the Wikimedia production environment. It runs MediaWiki and extensions from their master branch, allowing developers and power users to test new code before it goes live on Wikimedia websites.

Documentation

When setting up new instances, please see the instructions for using our local puppetmaster for a list of small changes to make to your instance's puppet configuration.

• Infrastructure, secrets, and external support services
• Databases

The following pages may be outdated and are in need of review:

• Overview
• Hetrogenous Deploy
• Add a wiki
• Import articles to betawiki
• How code is updated
• Log Files
• Decommission an instance

• Beta update jobs in Jenkins
• Beta Cluster page on mediawiki.org

Blocking

See also: Nova Resource:Deployment-prep/Blocking and unblocking

Blocking an abusing IP can be done by adding them to the abuse_networks:blocked_nets:networks Hiera configuration at https://horizon.wikimedia.org/project/puppet/ (context: task T389181).

To ensure the Hiera change is picked up quickly, check the varnish server deployment-cache-text*:

• Check /etc/varnish/blocked-nets.inc.vcl to ensure your changes are present, if not run puppet: sudo puppet agent -tv
• Reload the varnish frontend sudo systemctl reload varnish-frontend

Release Engineering server admin log

The RelEng SAL tracks all of the deployment-prep !log messages as well as additional !log data from #wikimedia-releng ^connect.

2026-06-11

• 14:46 hashar: for minor in $(seq 21 42); do ./.tox/make-release/bin/python -u ./make-release/branch.py --delete --abandon --bundle '*' "REL1_$minor"; done;
• 14:46 hashar: On all MediaWiki repos, converting old release branches up to REL1_42 included to tags. Last time I missed non wmf repo # T380841 | T428864
• 09:45 hashar: Converted mediawiki/core branches REL1_39, REL1_40, REL1_41, REL1_42 to tags # T428864
• 09:18 hashar: Converting REL1_42 branches to tags # T428864
• 09:18 hashar: Converting REL1_4... (more)