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 > -- > Bryan Davis Wikimedia Foundation <[email protected]> > [[m:User:BDavis_(WMF)]] Manager, Technical Engagement Boise, ID USA > irc: bd808 v:415.839.6885 x6855 > > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > To unsubscribe, go to: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l > _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list To unsubscribe, go to: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
