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href="/wiki/Category:WMF_Projects" title="Category:WMF Projects"> </a></span></div> <div class="wmf-engineering-project-box-title">Beta cluster</div> <div class="wmf-engineering-project-box-description">Production-like environment suitable for final-stage testing of new features.</div> <table class="wmf-engineering-project-box-data"> <tbody><tr> <th scope="row">Group:</th> <td><a href="/wiki/Developer_Experience" title="Developer Experience"> Developer Experience </a></td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row">Start:</th> <td>2012-03-01</td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row">Lead:</th> <td><a href="/wiki/User:LFerreira-WMF" title="User:LFerreira-WMF">Levi Ferreira</a></td> </tr> <tr class="mw-empty-elt"> </tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>The <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://meta.wikimedia.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki/Main_Page"><b>Beta Cluster</b></a> is a functional, production-like environment in the Cloud VPS that is suitable for final-stage testing of new features. It was initially created as a way to provide an exact copy of the WMF production cluster (including db hosts, apaches, logging, squids, varnish caching, image scalers, etc.) using <a href="https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Portal:Cloud_VPS" class="extiw" title="wikitech:Portal:Cloud VPS">Cloud VPS</a> instances. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc"/> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Current_Status" data-mw-thread-id="h-Current_Status"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Current_Status"></span>Current Status<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Current_Status"></span></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Beta_Cluster&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Current Status"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Beta Cluster remains a significant part of MediaWiki's development ecosystem, serving as a pre-production environment to test and deploy code before it reaches production, reshaped its purpose and management but is largely unmaintained. </p><p>In 2024, the Developer Experience group took Product Stewardship of Beta Cluster<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and are currently focused on giving it clear direction and narrowing its use cases. The long-term goal is to transform the Beta Cluster into a Playground environment for experimentation and testing without replicating every aspect of production. As part of this effort, the team is also working actively on tools like <a href="https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Catalyst" class="extiw" title="wikitech:Catalyst">PatchDemo/Catalyst</a> to ensure the most common use cases of Beta are covered as on-demand isolated testing environments. While this transformation is ongoing, the team is prioritizing only very essential updates (E.g. PHP 8.1 Upgrade) and not addressing smaller issues in its current state. </p><p>Developer Experience encourage users of Beta Cluster to <a href="https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/beta-cluster-infrastructure" class="extiw" title="phab:tag/beta-cluster-infrastructure">submit a feature request in Phabricator</a> if their requirements are not adequately addressed yet by PatchDemo/Catalyst or other tools. Their input will guide improvements and help prioritize features. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="How_it_works" data-mw-thread-id="h-How_it_works"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-How_it_works"></span>How it works<span data-mw-comment-end="h-How_it_works"></span></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Beta_Cluster&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: How it works"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>It runs off git master and has its MediaWiki core and extensions code updated about every ten minutes. Beta Cluster is one of the <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_wikis#Test_wikis" class="extiw" title="m:Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia wikis">Wikimedia test wikis</a>. It uses its own <a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:CentralAuth" title="Special:MyLanguage/Extension:CentralAuth">SUL</a> login separate from production, so for example an account for en.wikipedia.beta.wmflabs.org also works on en.wikisource.beta.wmflabs.org but not on any production wiki. </p> <ul><li>See the <a href="https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Nova_Resource:Deployment-prep" class="extiw" title="wikitech:Nova Resource:Deployment-prep">overview of its configuration</a>.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Open_tasks" data-mw-thread-id="h-Open_tasks"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Open_tasks"></span>Open tasks<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Open_tasks"></span></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Beta_Cluster&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Open tasks"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Open tasks can be found in the <a href="https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/beta-cluster-infrastructure" class="extiw" title="phab:tag/beta-cluster-infrastructure">workboard in Phabricator</a>. Those task are currently used as a way to catalogue issues or recurring problems, but are not addressed or observed immediately. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Testing_changes_on_Beta_Cluster" data-mw-thread-id="h-Testing_changes_on_Beta_Cluster"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Testing_changes_on_Beta_Cluster"></span>Testing changes on Beta Cluster<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Testing_changes_on_Beta_Cluster"></span></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Beta_Cluster&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Testing changes on Beta Cluster"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>See <a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Review_queue#Deploy_to_Beta_Cluster" title="Special:MyLanguage/Review queue">Deploy to Beta Cluster</a> for deployment steps. </p><p>Logs from the Beta Cluster are sent to <a href="https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Logstash#Beta_Cluster_Logstash" class="extiw" title="wikitech:Logstash">Logstash</a> and can be seen at <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://beta-logs.wmcloud.org">beta-logs.wmcloud.org</a>. This site is currently password-protected, for an account look in: <code>ssh deployment-deploy04.deployment-prep.eqiad1.wikimedia.cloud sudo cat /root/secrets.txt</code>. If for your EventLogging events aren't showing up in the dashboard, maybe <a href="https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Analytics/Systems/EventLogging/TestingOnBetaCluster#How_to_verify_events" class="extiw" title="wikitech:Analytics/Systems/EventLogging/TestingOnBetaCluster">check the logs and database</a> for possible problems. If that's not working, maybe eventlogging and / or the machine needs to be rebooted. Ping the folks in #wmf-analytics. </p><p>If you need to run a maintenance script on the Beta Cluster, ssh to deployment-deploy04.deployment-prep.eqiad1.wikimedia.cloud (proxying through bastion.wmcloud.org). </p><p>If you need to check the databases, they're hosted on machines with the name *dbXX* among the ones listed here: <a class="external free" href="https://openstack-browser.toolforge.org/project/deployment-prep">https://openstack-browser.toolforge.org/project/deployment-prep</a>. </p><p>If you just need to run some queries, ssh to deployment-deploy04.deployment-prep.eqiad1.wikimedia.cloud and run <code>sql testwiki</code> or with any other dbname you need. </p><p>Stash messages to the beta cluster's server admin log by using the prefix "!log " in #wikimedia-releng. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="See_also" data-mw-thread-id="h-See_also"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-See_also"></span>See also<span data-mw-comment-end="h-See_also"></span></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Beta_Cluster&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Labs#Background" title="Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia Labs">Wikimedia Labs#Background</a><span style="display:none"><a href="/wiki/Wikimedia_Labs#Background" title="Wikimedia Labs"> </a></span></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Historical_Documents" data-mw-thread-id="h-Historical_Documents"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Historical_Documents"></span>Historical Documents<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Historical_Documents"></span></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Beta_Cluster&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: 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