Help:Cloud services user roles and rights
This page contains information about Wikimedia Cloud Services user roles and rights.
Overview
This page contains information about Wikimedia Cloud Services user roles and rights.
Accounts you will need
In order to perform many of the tasks related to this wiki and Cloud Services projects, you will need to sign up for both of the following accounts.
| Account Type | Description | Where to sign up |
|---|---|---|
| Wikimedia account | Wikimedia single user login (SUL) account allows you to log into general wikis like Wikipedia, MediaWiki, and MetaWiki | Create Wikimedia account |
| Wikimedia developer account | Wikimedia developer account allows you to log into Wikitech, Phabricator, Gerrit and other developer tools. | Create Wikimedia developer account |
Users and permissions
| Permission | Wikitech visitors | Logged-in users | Project viewer[note 1] | Project member[note 2] | Cloud admins |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Can view pages on Wikitech | X | X | X | X | X |
| Add and manage your public SSH keys | X | X | X | X | |
| SSH to project instances | X | X | X | ||
| Manage project membership and user roles | X | X | |||
| Create or manage instances | X | X | |||
| Allocate and associate public IP addresses, and add public DNS entries to instances | X | X | |||
| Manage security groups and rules | X | X | |||
| Manage available puppet classes and variables | X | X | |||
| Manage sudo policies | X | X | |||
| Create/delete Cloud VPS projects | X | ||||
| Create and manage DNS domains | X |
Notes
Gaining specific permissions
The following people can grant Project viewer or member rights:
- Project members. Project members can grant access on projects they are members of. You can find Project members listed on the individual pages for their projects.
- Cloud VPS admins. Cloud admins, including Wikimedia Cloud Services staff and trusted community volunteers, can manage membership and Project admin status in any project.
Contacting admins
Project members of the Cloud admin group can be contacted through the 'email a user' function or through their talk page on Wikitech. Please note: Many members of the Wikitech community are volunteers who may not check their email or talk pages regularly.
You may need to check with more than one admin before you receive a response.
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:
- 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