User talk:Andrewbogott/keep the cloud

new section proposal

I would like to suggest this new section:

=== Cloud VPS is the best it has ever been ===

Over time the WMCS team has navigated a number of challenges to make sure the service offerings meet certain desirable quality and operational standards.

Often engaging on multi-year planning strategies, we have a history of setting and then successfully reaching a number of milestones.

Some of the most relevant include:
* Decoupling compute servers from storage servers.
** The WMCS team spearheaded the adoption of the Ceph distributed storage technology in the WMF, which has since been adopted by other teams.
** Among other things, this allowed the WMCS team to greatly increase operational flexibility (VM live migration) and data resilience (more copies of the data)
* [[Cross-Realm_traffic_guidelines]], a multi-team (SRE/WMCS) effort to define the relationship between our different networks and systems.
* Public openstack APIs, to enable operations using modern infrastructure-as-code tooling such as Opentofu or Ansible.
* Re-architect of Wiki-replica proxy layer for additional reliability and operational simplicity.
* Rollout of Trove Database-as-a-Service offering, allowing for one-click database deployments and upgrades.
* Rollout of Magnum Kubernetes-as-a-Service offering, allowing for one-click Kubernetes deployments and upgrades.
* Streamlining of physical datacenter layout and footprint, regarding racks space and switches.
* Re-architect edge network connectivity for increased efficiency and resilience, integrating the know-how of SRE NetOps for protocols such as BGP and OSPF.
* As of April 2025, Cloud VPS recently [[News/2025_Cloud_VPS_VXLAN_IPv6_migration | gained IPv6 and VXLAN support]], which is known to unblock a number of other projects and improvements to the platforms and services hosted within Openstack.

Some of the items mentioned here have been executed in close collaboration with multiple engineers from different teams across the WMF.

All of the improvements had a direct, net positive impact for users and stakeholders of Cloud VPS, including different SRE teams, other WMF teams and the wider Wikimedia movement.

thanks. ABorrero (WMF) (talk) 11:41, 29 April 2025 (UTC)

I like it! Edit away :) andrew (talk) 11:52, 29 April 2025 (UTC)