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Wikimedia Cloud VPS: IPv6 support

Wikimedia Cloud VPS is a service offered by the Wikimedia Foundation, built using OpenStack and managed by the Wikimedia Cloud…
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Posted on: May 6, 2025 Last updated on: May 6, 2025 Comments: 0 Arturo Borrero Gonzalez
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Introducing Terraform support on Wikimedia Cloud VPS

Learn how Wikimedia Cloud VPS was adapted to work with Terraform.
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Posted on: October 24, 2022 Last updated on: October 24, 2022 Comments: 0 Taavi Väänänen

Toolforge Jobs Framework

By Arturo Borrero González, Site Reliability Engineer, Wikimedia Cloud Services Team This post continues the discussion of Toolforge updates as…
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Posted on: March 18, 2022 Last updated on: March 16, 2022 Comments: 0 Arturo Borrero Gonzalez

Toolforge GridEngine Debian 10 Buster migration

In accordance with our operating system upgrade policy, we should migrate our servers to Debian Buster.
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Posted on: March 16, 2022 Last updated on: March 16, 2022 Comments: 0 Arturo Borrero Gonzalez

Toolforge and Grid Engine

By Arturo Borrero González, Site Reliability Engineer, Wikimedia Cloud Services Team One of the most important and successful products provided…
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Posted on: March 14, 2022 Last updated on: March 14, 2022 Comments: 1 Arturo Borrero Gonzalez
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Iterating on how we do NFS at Wikimedia Cloud Services

NFS is a central piece of infrastructure that is essential to services like Toolforge. Recently, the Cloud Services team at Wikimedia had been reviewing how we do NFS.
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Posted on: October 19, 2021 Last updated on: October 20, 2021 Comments: 1 Arturo Borrero Gonzalez
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Digging deeper into Quarry

Wikimedia Cloud Services is planning improvements to the Quarry service.
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Posted on: September 2, 2021 Last updated on: September 8, 2021 Comments: 0 Andrew Bogott and Joaquin Oltra Hernandez
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Introducing Database as a Service on Cloud VPS

This post introduces a new service, Database as a service, on Cloud VPS.
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Posted on: July 19, 2021 Last updated on: July 19, 2021 Comments: 1 Andrew Bogott

Ceph at WMCS, the numbers and the details

Part 2 of 2 posts exploring Ceph and Wikimedia Cloud Services.
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Posted on: August 24, 2020 Last updated on: August 24, 2020 Comments: 0 Andrew Bogott and Brooke Storm

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