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Story idea for Blog: Introducing Terraform support on Wikimedia Cloud VPS
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Please provide the following information.

  • Provide a short summary of your proposed post for the Wikimedia Technical Blog. Blog readers will see this as the preview to your post:

Recent changes to Cloud VPS make it possible to use Infrastructure-as-Code tools to manage your infrastructure.

A feature update or explainer

  • Which audience or audiences do you think your post is appropriate for?:

Current and future WMCS users, others interested on how we run a public cloud

  • Will you need assistance with writing your blog post, or do you already have a draft? If you have a draft, please provide a link here:

https://paste.sr.ht/~taavi/1dac69f97d8cc1f16837d3bcf91b6ba74cf667e5

I'm sure this is going to need some copy editing, but I think the content is all there.

  • Does your post need to be published by a certain date?

no

Not sure. Maybe something from https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Construction_equipment?

  • Do you have any other questions or comments?

I'd also like to publish this post on my personal blog.

Once your request is received, a technical blog admin will review it and reach out to you through Phabricator.

Event Timeline

taavi created this task.Oct 14 2022, 6:12 AM
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dcaro awarded a token.Oct 14 2022, 2:39 PM
Andrew added a comment.Oct 14 2022, 2:40 PM

Commons has some terraform illustrations, this one might work:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Terraforming_Mars_transition_horizontal.jpg

Or, perhaps an open barn door:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Barn_door_-_geograph.org.uk_-_412063.jpg

Andrew awarded a token.Oct 14 2022, 2:46 PM
• mseckington added a comment.Oct 18 2022, 4:51 PM

@taavi Thanks for writing this post! I just got back from holiday, so we've got a bit of a backlog of blog posts to edit and get published, but I'll try to take a look at it and proofread the post this week at least.

• mseckington moved this task from Backlog to Needs review on the Technical-blog-posts board.Oct 18 2022, 4:51 PM
• mseckington added a comment.Oct 20 2022, 3:16 PM

Hi @taavi! I've drafted the post here: https://techblog.wikimedia.org/?p=2072

I've made a few proofreading edits, but please take a look and let me know what you think. I've added a byline at the top - is crediting you as "Taavi" fine or would you prefer something else? In terms of a featured image, I was thinking of one of these ones:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sand_bucket.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sand_castle_on_Harbour_Island_2011.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Shovel_Ready_Project_(7231596148).jpg

Let me know if any of those images work or if there's something else you prefer!

If you're happy with the edits and image, I can get this scheduled for tomorrow (Friday 20th) or early next week.

taavi added a comment.Oct 20 2022, 5:27 PM
In T320775#8332765, @mseckington wrote:

Hi @taavi! I've drafted the post here: https://techblog.wikimedia.org/?p=2072

Thank you! Although I don't seem to be able to access this link :(

I've made a few proofreading edits, but please take a look and let me know what you think. I've added a byline at the top - is crediting you as "Taavi" fine or would you prefer something else? In terms of a featured image, I was thinking of one of these ones:

"Taavi Väänänen" would be the best, I think.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sand_bucket.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sand_castle_on_Harbour_Island_2011.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Shovel_Ready_Project_(7231596148).jpg

Let me know if any of those images work or if there's something else you prefer!

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Shovel_Ready_Project_(7231596148).jpg works for me.

If you're happy with the edits and image, I can get this scheduled for tomorrow (Friday 20th) or early next week.

Early next week sounds good.

• mseckington added a comment.Oct 20 2022, 5:55 PM
In T320775#8333478, @taavi wrote:
In T320775#8332765, @mseckington wrote:

Hi @taavi! I've drafted the post here: https://techblog.wikimedia.org/?p=2072

Thank you! Although I don't seem to be able to access this link :(

Ah I didn't realise that wouldn't work. I've moved it to a Google Doc instead which I'll delete once you've reviewed it: https://docs.google.com/document/d/12iy1yS8dcgrbddwQ9Z3Y-mSRDQytZ8dxqotFE-xEV-E/edit?usp=sharing

I've made a few proofreading edits, but please take a look and let me know what you think. I've added a byline at the top - is crediting you as "Taavi" fine or would you prefer something else? In terms of a featured image, I was thinking of one of these ones:

"Taavi Väänänen" would be the best, I think.

Okay, I've changed it in the draft now.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sand_bucket.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sand_castle_on_Harbour_Island_2011.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Shovel_Ready_Project_(7231596148).jpg

Let me know if any of those images work or if there's something else you prefer!

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Shovel_Ready_Project_(7231596148).jpg works for me.

I'll update the post with this image.

If you're happy with the edits and image, I can get this scheduled for tomorrow (Friday 20th) or early next week.

Early next week sounds good.

Great! If you give me the thumbsup tomorrow that you're happy with the draft, I'll schedule it to be published on Monday!

taavi added a comment.Oct 20 2022, 6:31 PM

Added a few comments, otherwise looks good. +1 for publishing on Monday.

• mseckington added a comment.Oct 24 2022, 10:20 AM

Hi @taavi! The post has now been scheduled to go live this afternoon at 3pm UTC. Once it's live you'll be able to find it here: https://techblog.wikimedia.org/2022/10/24/introducing-terraform-support-on-wikimedia-cloud-vps/

I’ll also link to the post on Twitter from @wikimediatech; do you have a Twitter account that you want linked from this?

• mseckington moved this task from Needs review to Ready for publication or requires post publication follow-up on the Technical-blog-posts board.Oct 24 2022, 10:20 AM
Andrew added a comment.Oct 24 2022, 2:22 PM

@mseckington, taavi also mentioned that he'd like to republish on his personal blog, can you comfirm that that's fine? I assume that tech blog posts are cc licensed anyway, right?

• mseckington added a comment.Oct 24 2022, 4:05 PM

@Andrew yes, there's no issue with taavi republishing the post on his personal blog! And yes, unless otherwise stated, all content on the blog is published under a CC BY-SA 4.0 international license.

taavi added a comment.Oct 24 2022, 4:58 PM

Thanks! I don't have a Twitter so no need to link me there. I've also published the post on https://taavi.wtf/posts/cloud-vps-terraform/.

Andrew added a comment.Oct 24 2022, 5:15 PM

thank you @taavi and @mseckington !

• mseckington added a comment.Oct 25 2022, 11:41 AM

Great, thank you all! And thank you @taavi for writing this post! This has now also been tweeted at: https://twitter.com/wikimediatech/status/1584872492203913216

• mseckington closed this task as Resolved.Oct 25 2022, 11:41 AM
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