Aegir
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Basics
System/process overview
Aegir uses Drupal multisite features to share one Drupal codebase install as a 'platform' between sites. Distributions are equal to platform+site, i.e., turnkey solutions. Content can be shared (migrated) between sites using an updated or different platform (with the same content modules, natch). A platform and site distribution is created from a .make and .info using Drush Make. The Profiler library is installed with the .make and uses a .info file to specify modules to be initialised, including site sections/etc. from the Features module plus configuration settings via the Strongarm module. Provision initialises a site on that platform and installs the platform+site in Aegir. Features and theme are stored using Git, --working-copy can be used to build a dev site then content can be migrated from live for testing. Dev platform is perfected, then rebuilt as live without --working-copy.
Barracuda box setup
- Ubuntu Server
- boxbootstrap.sh
Octopus
Like Barracuda, but a satellite Aegir instance with pressflow and other distros.
Aegir usage
Dev/production workflow guides
- Drupal deployments & workflows with version control, drush_make, and Aegir (mig5, Oct 28 2009)
- Using drush hosting-import to auto-create your platform node (and other entities) (mig5, Jan 11 2011) - Updated workflow on Aegir mailing list
- From Zero to Distribution using Features, Profiler, and Drush Make (dimitri, March 9, 2011)
Drush
Drush is a command-line system for managing Drupal. The backend of Aegir is the Provision module for Drush.
- Drush - issues
- Drush.ws
- example.aliases.drushrc.php Drush context alias example
Drush Make
N.b. Drush Make is part of Drush as of Jan 2012.
- Drush Make readme
- Drush Make theory for happy profile development
- Using drush_make to optimize workflow - Basics of make/profile management from mig5's first article
Example make files
- example.make
- github search
- https://github.com/mig5/builds
- http://drushmake.me/ - automatic generation demo
Libraries
Using the Libraries API, make files can specify external libraries to be downloaded.
; CKEditor libraries[ckeditor][download][type]= "get" libraries[ckeditor][download][url] = "http://download.cksource.com/CKEditor/CKEditor/CKEditor%203.4/ckeditor_3.4.zip" libraries[ckeditor][directory_name] = "ckeditor" libraries[ckeditor][destination] = "libraries"
Profiles
- Developing installation profiles
- Install Profile Packaging
- Packaging a profile on drupal.org (make file -> install profile)
Profiler library
Features and settings
To do: Features
- Features enables the capture and management of features in Drupal. A feature is a collection of Drupal entities which taken together satisfy a certain use-case.
- Strongarm gives site builders a way to override the default variable values that Drupal core and contributed modules ship with. [1]
- Global variables