Beta Cluster

The Beta cluster is a functional, production-like environment in Wikimedia Labs suitable for final-stage testing of new features. It runs off git master and has its MediaWiki core and extensions code updated about every three minutes.
 * See the overview of its configuration.
 * Current browser test results (search for "beta.wmflabs")

Rationale
The aim is to provide an exact copy of the WMF production cluster (including db hosts, apaches, logging, squids, varnish caching, image scalers, etc.) using Wikimedia Labs instances.

Open tasks
See the workboard in Phabricator.

Testing changes on Beta Cluster
The beta cluster uses the same wmf-config directory in the repository as production, but in addition the beta cluster machines load ,  , and   files so you can have settings that only apply to Labs.

If you need to run a maintenance script on the Beta Cluster, ssh to deployment-tin.deployment-prep.eqiad.wmflabs (proxying through bastion.wmflabs.org).

If you need to check the databases, they're hosted on machines with the name *dbXX* among the ones listed here: https://tools.wmflabs.org/openstack-browser/project/deployment-prep.

If you just need to run some queries, ssh to deployment-tin.eqiad.wmflabs and run sql deploymentwiki or sql enwiki replacing those with any other dbname you need.

Historical Documents

 * Specifications: Wikimedia Labs/Things to fix in beta
 * Schedule: see the old Labs plan (revisions 1, 2, and 3)
 * 2014-15 Q3 (potential) plans