Aegir

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Basics

• Aegir
• Aegir file system structure
• Aegir contexts

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

• Migrate sites from one Aegir to another (Apache)

• http://drupal.org/project/remote_import

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

Provision

• Provision - the Aegir backend
• API reference
• purge option for platforms (--force)

Distros and provision

Example make files

• example.make
• github search
• https://github.com/mig5/builds

Profiles

• Developing installation profiles
• Install Profile Packaging
• Packaging a profile on drupal.org (make file -> install profile)

Profiler library

• Profiler
  • Readme
  • Examples

Features and settings

See also: Features

• Strongarm gives site builders a way to override the default variable values that Drupal core and contributed modules ship with. [1]
• Global variables

Misc tools

• https://github.com/EugenMayer/drush_make_ui
• http://drushmake.me/
• http://drupalmake.com/make

• https://github.com/Vertice/puppet-aegir