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To date WBStack has been funded one way or another by [Rhizome](https://rhizome.org/), [Addshore](https://addshore.com) and [Wikimedia Deutschland](https://www.wikimedia.de/).
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wbstack.com was funded by [Rhizome](https://rhizome.org/), [Addshore](https://addshore.com) and [Wikimedia Deutschland](https://www.wikimedia.de/) throughout its life.
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## Development
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Primary development has been done by Addshore, seeing a few volunteer contributions along the way.
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Toward the end of 2020 patches from Wikimedia Deutschland engineers start making their way into the WBStack code bases.
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wikibase.cloud is now funded by [Wikimedia Deutschland](https://www.wikimedia.de/).
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## Infrastructure
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Addshore covered the cost of the initial Google cloud bill, along with other miscellaneous expenses such as domains.
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## Development
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Once launched Rhizome started covering the costs of the Google cloud bill.
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Initial development was done by Addshore, seeing a few volunteer contributions along the way.
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Toward the beginning of 2021 [Wikimedia Deutschland](https://www.wikimedia.de/) took over payments of the Google Cloud resources.
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Toward the end of 2020 patches from Wikimedia Deutschland engineers started making their way into the WBStack code bases.
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Throughout this time the infrastructure of WBStack continues to be operated by Addshore independently of Wikimedia Deutschland.
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By 2021 Wikimedia Deutschland engineers were the main code contributors.
[WBStack](https://www.wbstack.com) was launched in 2019.
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**WBStack** was created and launched in 2019 on the wbstack.com domain by Addshore.
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The project provides a shared platform for Wikibase and other relevant services such as a Query service, Quickstatements, and more.
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Users of individual wikis need not manage the technology or perform upgrades; they are all handled centrally.
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You can read the [original announcement post here](https://addshore.com/2019/11/an-introduction-to-wbstack/) and can watch the original live demo [here 📺](https://media.ccc.de/v/wikidatacon2019-19-lightning_talks_2#t=1147).
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[The code was open sourced in 2020](https://addshore.com/2020/12/open-sourcing-wbstack/).
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wbstack.com has [since been sunset](https://addshore.com/2022/02/wbstack-close-and-migration/) and a new service setup by Wikimedia Deutschlnd at [wikibase.cloud](https://wikibase.cloud).
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The WBStack name lives on representing the technology and opne source code bases that provide the wikibase.cloud service today.
[WBStack](https://www.wbstack.com) is run using open source code and configuration.
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All code for the platform is open source. You can find it in the [Github Organization](https://github.com/wbstack).
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You can find everything in the [Github Organization](https://github.com/wbstack).
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wbstack.com was run using open source configuration. You can find this in the [old deploy repository](https://github.com/wbtack/deploy)
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Although some of the code or configuration may currently have hard coded references to wbstack or opencura the goal would be that everything is easily reusable for other projects.
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wikibase.cloud does not currently have it's configuration repository open.
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WBStack is designed to run on Kubernetes with as little dependency on external services as possible.
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The Kubernetes cluster for wbstack.com currently runs on Google Kubernetes Engine.
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The Kubernetes cluster for wbstack.com was run on Google Kubernetes Engine.
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You can read about this decision [here](/docs/tech/decisions/0000-gce-vs-other-k8s-cluster).
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The only current deployment of this stack is [wbstack.com](https://wbstack.com), but Wikimedia Deutschland is currently in the process of setting up wikibase.cloud.
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The only current deployment of this stack is [wikibase.cloud(https://wikibase.cloud).
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