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	grafana SAL

Beta Cluster

Description

This project, primarily known as the Beta Cluster aims to provide a staging area that closely 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.

Contact address

phab:tag/beta-cluster-infrastructure/

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.

• Machine configuration
• Databases

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

following may be outdated:

• Overview
• Roadmap
• 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

Edit documentation

Server admin log

2025-02-06

• 12:08 andrewbogott: rebooting all servers for T385264

2025-01-07

• 19:00 bd808: `/usr/local/sbin/clean-stale-puppet-certs --clean` (T383153)
• 18:53 taavi: taavi@deployment-puppetserver-1:~$ sudo puppetserver ca clean --certname maps-master01.maps-experiments.eqiad1.wikimedia.cloud # T383153
• 18:50 taavi: taavi@deployment-puppetserver-1:~$ sudo puppet node clean geoshapes.maps-experiments.eqiad1.wikimedia.cloud # T383153
• 18:30 bd808@cloudcumin1001: END (FAIL) - Cookbook wmcs.vps.remove_instance... (more)

Release Engineering Server Admin Log

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

2025-06-19

• 09:38 sergi0: deployment-prep: GrowthExperiments config migration `foreachwiki extensions/CommunityConfiguration/maintenance/migrateConfig.php GrowthSuggestedEdits` — T393771
• 09:18 urbanecm: deployment-prep: Update changeprop config perhttps://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/operations/deployment-charts/+/1161443 using wikitech:Changeprop#To_deployment-prep (T394958; this time actually changing the beta config)
• 09:10 urbanecm: deployment-prep: Update changeprop config per https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/operations/deployment-charts/+/11506... (more)