Very tempting.... Maybe I should pursue both options in parallel, and
install vagrant on my host machine. If I want more real-time help in
setting this up, would #wikimedia-dev be the right channel to ask questions
in?

On Thu, Nov 15, 2018 at 6:48 PM Bryan Davis <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 15, 2018 at 4:05 PM Huji Lee <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > Wait, are you saying that WMF uses MediaWiki-Vagrant to run the
> Wikipedias
> > etc? I thought they was not correct.
>
> No, MediaWiki-Vagrant is not used for Wikimedia's production hosting
> environment. It is however the only semi-official and semi-maintained
> (its a long story) shared development environment. I have worked for
> the Wikimedia Foundation for a bit over 5 years and have used
> MediaWiki-Vagrant as part of my development workflow for that entire
> time. We do not track statistics on MediaWiki-Vagrant usage among
> Foundation engineering teams, but I can anecdotally say that a number
> of teams either currently or in the recent past have used
> MediaWiki-Vagrant as their standard development environment as well.
> It has roles for setting up fairly exotic systems such as CentralAuth
> complete with a dedicated loginwiki or Flow with external storage.
>
> MediaWiki-Vagrant uses a lot of custom Puppet code to provide a system
> that can reliably and repeatedly provision a wikifarm within a virtual
> machine (or LXC container) that comes about as close as one is
> reasonably able to running the same software with similar
> configuration to the actively maintained parts of the Wikimedia
> production environment.
>
>
> Bryan
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