We're drawing close to a painful migration event[1], during which we will (probably) have to copy VMs between hosts one project at a time, largely by hand.  For that reason, I'm feeling even stingier than usual about preserving unused and/or abandoned projects and instances.

It's been a couple of years since we last did this, and I'm sure there are some newly forgotten projects in the cloud.  So, I've created a wiki page the lists all existing projects, here:

https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Cloud_VPS_2018_Purge

If you are a VPS user, please visit that page and mark any projects that you use as {{Used}}.  Note that it's not necessary for you to be a project admin to mark something -- if you know that you're currently using a resource and want to keep using it, go ahead and mark it accordingly.  If you /are/ a project admin, please take a moment to mark which VMs are or aren't used in your projects.

When October arrives, I will shut down and begin the process of reclaiming unused projects.

If you think you use a VPS project but aren't sure which, I encourage you to poke around on https://tools.wmflabs.org/openstack-browser/ to see what looks familiar.  Worst case, just email cloud@lists.wikimedia.org with a description of your use case and we'll sort it out there.

Exclusive toolforge users are free to ignore this task.

Thank you!

-Andrew and WMCS team

[1] The eqiad->eqiad1 migration, also known as the 'nova-network to neutron' migration which I hope to write more about soon.  It won't happen by surprise, I promise.