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Who am I?

• Gareth Hall

• Communica (http://communica.co.nz)

• Freelancer / Contractor

Why do I need Aegir?

Running Drupal is hard and complicated

We got Drupal

• It awesome and great.

• But now we need a way to share a common code base.

• Why have 50 sites and all of them have their own copy of views, token, ctools, admin, wysiwyg ...

Then came Multisite

• Shared code base FTW!

• But doing common tasks is hard.

• Upgrading modules and core.

• Different module versions.

• It takes a long time to upgrade 50 sites.

Drush

• Command line tool to Drupal!

• Argh another thing to learn.

• It’s command line only ... forget it!

• Experience ... shit I broke something how do I fix it in command line.

What is Aegir?

• Drupal Multisite + Drush + Steroids

• It’s a Drupal front-end to manage common Drupal tasks like create, update and deploy.

• Manages Apache

• Manages MYSQL

Advantages

• Automation

• Roll back

• Easy to use

• Built on Drupal

• Contributed modules

• Multi server support

Disadvantages

• Poor fail over

• Built on Drupal 6

• Future road map

• Drupal only so it not framework agnostic

• Collaboration hard to do well

• No resource allocation

• No statistics

• You need a server admin

The aegir framework

• Hostmaster = Front end and is Drupal.

• Provision = Back end and is Drush.

Terminology

WTF?

Platform

• Shared code base.

• It’s one multisite.

• It’s the root of a Drupal site.

• The Platform name should describes it’s intent.

• Commerce, Basic Brochure, Ubercart 6

Site

• It’s a site within a Platform.

• It shares the code from the Platform.

• Has it’s own database.

Task

• Backend Drush operation that will or has run.

• It’s node containing an audit trail of the operation.

• Common tasks are:

• Verify

• Install

• Migrate

• Enable / Disable

• Backup

Verify

• Checklist of expected behaviour to confirm normal operation.

• It checks that your site, platform or server is working.

Creating a platform

• Create a Drush make file.

• core = 7.x

• api = 2

• projects[] = drupal

• projects[ctools][subdir] = contrib

• projects[token][subdir] = contrib

• projects[views][subdir] = contrib

• projects[webform][subdir] = contrib

• projects[] = omega

• libraries[ckeditor][download][type] = "get"

• libraries[ckeditor][download][url] = "http://url/ckeditor_3.6.6.1.zip"

• libraries[ckeditor][directory_name] = "ckeditor"

Upgrading a site

• Never upgrade a platform

• Create a new platform

• Migrate site to new platform

• Or migrate the whole platform

Remember to test!

• Selenium

• Selenium Webdriver (RC)

• Codeception

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