As anyone who has ventured into managing multiple drupal sites and platforms with Aegir knows, its an incredibly powerful tool that comes with a learning curve to use effectively. On top of that it has a very active contrib ecosystem that can extend its capabilities in powerful new ways This session aims to connect a few of the existing dots by covering topics such as *The different flavours of Aegir - BOA, Devshop, Valkyrie *Getting up and running with Aegir in the cloud. *Local development environments using Vagrant. *Remote importing production sites *Different approaches to building sites under version control to use as platforms within Aegir *Workflows for Dev/Stage/Prod using Aegir. *Building SaaS Drupal products using Aegir. This is intended to be a roundup of the various projects and advanced techniques surrounding working with Aegir to evaluate where its at, what we can do with whats out there already and what still needs to be done to make it even better. It will not be a code heavy session although some familiarity with what Aegir does beforehand may be helpful as we will be covering more advanced usage topics. The dev/stage/prod workflow demonstration video used in the presentation is at https://vimeo.com/76546448
- 1.Aegir Eco-system Gregg Coppen twitter.com/skabenga
github.com/iaminawe drupal.org/user/218536 greggcoppen.com
iaminawe.com [email protected]
2. What does Aegir do? Aegir allows you to deploy and manage
many Drupal sites, and can scale across multiple server clusters.
Aegir makes it easy to install, upgrade, and backup an entire
network of Drupal sites. Enforces best practices site building
using drush make, features and install profiles
https://drupal.org/project/hostmaster
http://community.aegirproject.org/ 3. Git Strategy: Minimal No
contrib in version control Only custom themes, modules &
features Drupal core not included Deploy platforms with Aegir
direct from .build Is lightweight and makes platforms portable
Patches applied from the make file Treats a site like a product Is
suited to multiple sites/multiple environments per platform model
Is a distribution Aegir/BOA works well with this method. Devshop
does not work with this yet. 4. Git Strategy: Full Full codebase in
git repository Includes all contrib modules, themes & features
Includes Drupal core code Integrates very well with Devshop Can
work fine with Aegir/BOA too. Is suited to one site/multiple
environments per platform model Has benefits in that platforms do
not rely to drupal.org to be built Is less flexible and re-usable
Is a larger codebase to move around with all libraries modules etc
5. Switching to Install Profiles These modules help to move sites
from a full codebase to minimal install profile based codebase
https://drupal.org/project/profiler Profiler allows you to quickly
and easily create new install profiles
https://drupal.org/project/profiler_builder Profiler Builder is a
module for automating the creation of installation profiles and
distributions. https://drupal.org/project/profile_switcher Used to
switch between install profiles found in /profile directory. This
module is useful for moving an existing site to distribution. 6.
Vagrant Development environments made easy. Create and configure
lightweight, reproducible, and portable development environments.
Live in contained boxes http://www.vagrantup.com/
https://drupal.org/project/vagrant 7. Drush Vagrant Drush Vagrant
Integration provides Drush commands to accomplish common Vagrant
tasks, and provides a powerful templating framework ('blueprints').
It also has tools to implement Drush aliases for Vagrant projects
and VMs, thus allowing simpler remote control of Vagrant projects.
https://drupal.org/project/drush-vagrant
http://drupal.org/project/drupal-up
https://drupal.org/project/aegir-up 8. Barracuda Octopus Aegir
Barracuda: Barracuda is a bash script to install and/or upgrade,
tuned for high performance Aegir Master Instance with all related
system services. Octopus: Octopus is a bash script to install
and/or upgrade, tuned for high performance, Aegir Satellite
Instances, compatible with Barracuda High performance LEMP Aegir
stack https://drupal.org/project/boa 9. Barracuda Barracuda is the
main script for the base/core Aegir Hosting System install and
upgrades, including OS environment, main Aegir instance, but no
platforms will be added there to keep it compatible with all
existing and future installs Tuner script available for easy system
tuning https://drupal.org/project/barracuda 10. Octopus Octopus is
an Aegir + Platforms installer and updater It allows to install new
versions of platforms with clean directory structure, with code
shared between all created instances, so one vanilla Octopus
instance is using only ~18 MB, while most of the code, which is
over 1700 MB total, is shared. Sharing the code between instances
is of critical importance, because it allows you to dramatically
lower RAM and CPU usage, because most of the actively used code is
opcode cached with APC. https://drupal.org/project/octopus 11.
Local BOA https://github.com/iaminawe/boa-vagrant An unofficial
vagrant/chef installer to easily set up a local BOA development
environment Full setup in about 45 mins Includes patches for
hosting import module and updates for Virtualbox Mounts platforms
folder transparently to your file system to work on it locally in
the guest OS Fork and update user & build info in cookbooks 12.
Stage/Prod Cloud BOA
http://drupalcode.org/project/barracuda.git/blob/HEAD:/docs/INSTALL.txt
Use the official BOA Installer on any cloud based VPS. Full setup
in 30 mins from one command Set wildcard dns for remote environment
fqdn Reproducible to setup remote servers and clusters 13. Managed
Hosted BOA https://omega8.cc/ Created by the talented team behind
the Barracuda/Octopus projects Is the exact same stack you are
already using Blazingly fast with core based pricing model Highly
optimized Aegir environments in the cloud Amazing technical support
on many levels 14. BOA Local/Remote Workflow Demo Video to come
soon. 15. Devshop: Drupal Devops in a box Host all of your Drupal
projects, with unlimited environments each, on one or many servers.
Use the git host of your choice and follow your own branching
strategy. Web UI for Pulling Code, Copying Data, Committing
Features, Running Tests, and Forking Environments. Set of modules
that add to an existing Aegir install
https://drupal.org/project/devshop 16. 1. to simplify management of
multiple environments for multiple Drupal projects. 2. to provide
web-based tools that streamline the Drupal site building workflow.
3. to provide a common, open-source infrastructure for Drupal
development shops. Devshop Goals https://drupal.org/project/devshop
17. Devshop Workflow Demo Video to come soon. 18. DevOps for Drupal
Valkyrie is a Drupal development and hosting system built on Aegir
and DevShop. Among Aegir's many powerful features is making it easy
to keep a large number of sites up-to-date using a common platform
defined by a Drush makefile. While DevShop introduces several
components crucial to development such as projects and
environments, but prioritizes flexibility over maintainability by
putting the entire platform under Git. Valkyrie strives for the
best of both worlds, leveraging DevShop's developer-focused
innovations, while maintaining Aegir's sysadmin focus on the
security and on-going support that production sites require.
http://drupal.org/project/valkyrie 19. Convergence Devshop + BOA
together? https://drupal.org/node/1935810 Currently Aegir is D6 and
stable release is at 1.1 2.x branch is in testing at 2.0-rc4
Upgrading Aegir to D7 has begun https://drupal.org/node/1261030
Skynet takes over http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Wlsd9mljiU 20.
Thanks Questions? http://twitter.com/skabenga
http://github.com/iaminawe http://drupal.org/user/218536
http://greggcoppen.com http://iaminawe.com [email protected]
