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Hosting Drupal sites? You need
Colan Schwartz & Christopher Gervais@
DrupalNorth 2018-08-11
Licensed under Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Hosting Drupal sites? You need
Colan Schwartz & Christopher Gervais@
DrupalNorth 2018-08-11
Licensed under Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0)
AEGIR API
Speaker Information
‣ Colan Schwartz‣ Core Maintainer of Aegir‣ colan on drupal.org (12 yrs)‣ colan.consulting‣ Enterprise Cloud Architect‣ Independent Contractor‣ Aegir/SaaS/PaaS/IaaS‣ Start-ups, Government, etc.‣ Small site builds
‣ Christopher Gervais‣ Aegir Project Lead‣ ergonlogic on drupal.org‣ DevOps/Aegir/Cloud Eng.
HISTORY & COMMUNITY
‣ Started in 20061. Bryght / Raincity Studios2. Development Seed3. Koumbit4. Now : Disparate core team
‣ Community‣ 6 core maintainers‣ 20+ contributors‣ 500+ installations
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History
Values:Share best practicesTools not policyKeep the software stack free (libre)
OTHER CAPABILITIES
‣ National Democratic Institute‣ NASA‣ CiviCRM‣ European Commission
Who’s using it?
ARCHITECTURE
‣ http://docs.aegirproject.org/en/3.x/
‣ Front-end:‣ Hostmaster (profile)‣ Hosting (modules)‣ Eldir (theme)
‣ Back-end:‣ Provision (Drush)
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Architectural Components & Installation
InstallationSee Install GuideOptions :Debian packageDockerManual
CORE CONCEPTS
‣ Servers (services)‣ Platforms (code-base)‣ Sites (config & state)‣ Tasks & queues
Entities
BUILDING PLATFORMS
‣ Custom code-bases manage updates to one or hundreds of sites at a time.‣ Drush Make‣ Git‣ Manual‣ Composer
● Core functionality● Extras : Aegir Deploy
Deployment Strategies
MANAGING SITES
‣ Creates site directory‣ Provisions database‣ Writes:
‣ settings.php‣ drushrc.php‣ vhost
‣ Restarts web server
Site Installation
MANAGING SITES (CONT’D)
‣ Migration (updates)‣ Creates a backup‣ Deploys new site from
backup‣ Re-writes file paths in
database‣ Runs update.php‣ Re-writes vhost
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Site/Platform Migration
Notable featuresRollback on failurePlatform migrationAll sites on a platform !
CLUSTERING SERVERS
‣ High-performance and highly-available sites.‣ Web cluster (rsync, S3)‣ Web pack (NFS)
‣ Load-balancing & reverse-proxy/cache are currently managed externally.
‣ Site auditing, monitoring, and reporting
Infrastructure Tools
WORKFLOWS
‣ Automating workflows across development, testing, staging and production environments.‣ Remote site importing‣ DevShop‣ BOA/Octopus‣ Custom workflows via
convention and/or Aegir API
DevOps
OTHER CAPABILITIES
‣ Web Services‣ RESTful API / Aegir Services‣ Aegir SaaS
‣ Other CMSes‣ CiviCRM‣ Wordpress
‣ HTTPS‣ Let’s Encrypt certificates
‣ Many other contribs
Module Suites
AEGIR API
‣ Just like Drupal core‣ Leverage the Aegir API to
customize workflows and deploy custom configuration to sites and web servers.
‣ Examples● Inject custom vhost config● Run code after site creation● Etc.
Hook System
HISTORY & COMMUNITY
‣ Aegir 3 is stable, but soon :
‣ Aegir 4● Long-term global Drush● Jon Pugh● Drush → Symfony● Keeps original front-end● Medium-term solution until…
‣ Aegir 5● Complete rewrite● Chris Gervais (ergonlogic)● Drupal 8 front-end● Drush → Ansible / K8s● Celery (task queue)● Can host anything !● Architecture doc
Future
Thanks! Questions?
Colan Schwartz & Christopher Gervais@
DrupalCamp Montreal, 2018-06-15
Licensed under Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0)
www.aegirproject.org
Thanks! Questions?
Colan Schwartz & Christopher Gervais@
DrupalCamp Montreal, 2018-06-15
Licensed under Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0)
www.aegirproject.org