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Automated deployment of MediaWiki (view source)
Revision as of 14:36, 23 May 2018
, 14:36, 23 May 2018Some background on WMF config management and deploys
* [https://github.com/dataspects/meza-building-blocks Meza Building Blocks] A series of roles to add to or complement Meza by Lex Sulzer
== Configuration Management and Deployment at WMF ==
It should be noted that the WMF uses Puppet for configuration management, and [https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Scap3 Scap3] (which is used in [https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/SWAT_deploys SWAT]) for [https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments deployments]. There is the [https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Portal:Cloud_VPS Cloud VPS] which is powered by [[wp:OpenStack]] for projects related to the [https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_movement Wikimedia movement]. The environment includes access to a variety of [https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Portal:Data_Services data services]. Cloud VPS is meant to make it easier for developers and system administrators to try out improvements to Wikimedia infrastructure (including MediaWiki), power research and analytics, and host projects that are not viable in the [https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Portal:Toolforge Toolforge] environment. Virtual machines running on Cloud VPS are subject to the [https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Portal:Wikimedia_VPS/instance_lifecycle instance lifecycle].
=== Puppet ===
* https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Puppet
* https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Puppet_coding
== Config Settings ==
With any automation tooling and deployment, you will inevitably need to refer to the long list of [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Configuration_settings MediaWiki Configuration settings].
