Nova Resource:Tools

Resource Type	project
Project Name	tools
Details	openstack-browser
Monitoring	nagf grafana SAL

Tool Labs is a reliable, scalable hosting environment for community developers working on tools and bots that help users maintain and use wikis. The cloud-based infrastructure was developed by the Wikimedia Foundation and is supported by a dedicated group of Wikimedia Foundation staff and volunteers. Tool Labs is a part of the Labs project, which is designed to make it easier for developers and system administrators to try out improvements to Wikimedia infrastructure, including MediaWiki, and to do analytics and bot work.

Tip: Confused about the terms labs, tool labs etc? Read Wikimedia Labs vs Tool Labs.

The Tool Labs environment provides:

• Support for Web services, continuous bots, and scheduled tasks.
• Access to replicated production databases.
• Easily shared management of tool accounts, where tools and bots are stored.
• A grid engine for dispatching jobs.
• Support for mosh, SSH, SFTP without complicated proxy setup.
• A shared pywikibot installation.
• Version control via Gerrit and Git.
• Support for Redis.

In general, every tool maintainer should work primarily on the Tools project (not Toolsbeta, which is for experiments to the Tool Labs environment itself).

Requesting access

• Access request form
• Outstanding Requests
• Completed Requests

After filling in the form, your request will then show up in the queue above, and will be processed shortly by one of the Tool Labs administrators.

Help-page

• Help:Tool Labs

Tools Resources Overview

• Nova Resource:Tools/Overview

Useful links

• Main webpage
• Gridengine Job status

• Getting started (in-depth)
• Getting started (for toolserver users)
• Phabricator (project Tool-Labs; report a bug/feature request)

• Service group (tool) interface - create service groups (tools) and add users to them

SSH Fingerprints

tools-login: Help:SSH Fingerprints/tools-login.wmflabs.org

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Tool Labs design philosophy

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Server admin log

2017-03-27

• 04:06 andrewbogott: erasing random log files on tools-proxy-01 to avoid filling the disk

2017-03-23

• 20:38 andrewbogott: migrating tools-exec-1401 to labvirt1001
• 19:56 andrewbogott: migrating tools-exec-1408 to labvirt1001
• 19:02 andrewbogott: migrating tools-exec-1407 to labvirt1001
• 16:37 andrewbogott: migrating tools-webgrid-lighttpd-1402 and 1407 to labvirt1001 (testing labvirt1001 and easing CPU load on labvirt1010)

2017-03-22

• 13:48 andrewbogott: migrating tools-bastion-02 in... (more)