Labs hosts a special project called Tool Labs which https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:FAQ describes as "designed to host tools that are not so complicated that they would require a dedicated instance". One notable tool is Geohack (https://tools.wmflabs.org/geohack/): every article about a location links to it. Example from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aberdeen:
Coordinates: 57.1526°N 2.1100°W

There are also various analytics dashboards in labs which might be considered as "production"
  • https://glam-metrics.wmflabs.org/
  • https://metrics.wmflabs.org/
  • http://reportcard.wmflabs.org/
  • http://searchdata.wmflabs.org/

  • As others have mentioned, part of the problem is the ease in spinning up a labs instance vs hardware procurement for a deployment into production. Ops (Alex) is working on virtualization infrastructure for use in prod called Ganeti (an alternative to the OpenStack virtualization software which powers labs); the first service was recently migrated from hardware to a Ganeti instance: etherpad. Ganeti could be the way forward for promoting services from labs to prod without requiring dedicated hardware.

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


    On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 8:01 AM, Kevin Smith <ksmith@wikimedia.org> wrote:
    Max: I thought we were hoping to use the labs map servers to support production-like cases. For example, possibly "beta" mobile apps, or maybe hooked into some small production wiki.

    Even if that is not the case, it seems like for anything we do run in labs for a long time, we would want to be able to measure. Usage and speed.



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    On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 6:52 PM, Max Semenik <maxsem.wiki@gmail.com> wrote:

    Explain what? Everything we have in labs is for experimentation and prototyping. It should not be used for prod.

    16 июня 2015 г. 18:16 пользователь "Oliver Keyes" <okeyes@wikimedia.org> написал:

    Max, could you explain that?

    On 16 June 2015 at 20:28, Max Semenik <maxsem.wiki@gmail.com> wrote:
    > Maps is not going to be production-like.
    >
    > On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 2:46 PM, Kevin Smith <ksmith@wikimedia.org> wrote:
    >>
    >> In a recent meeting, Oliver expressed concerns about us having services
    >> running in labs which are treated sort of like they were in production.
    >> Examples include WDQS (already) and maps (potentially).
    >>
    >> We agreed to have this discussion on the mailing list, so this is an
    >> invitation to do so. I am not familiar enough with the various technical
    >> issues to explain them properly, so hopefully someone else will step in and
    >> do so. I believe one big area of concern is analytics.
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