BOA

Basics

Barracuda Octopus Aegir.

• BOA New meta-installer for an easy Barracuda + Octopus + Aegir install and upgrade on the high performance LEMP stack.

Barracuda

Installs a tuned stack for Aegir PaaS use.

• Barracuda
  • README
  • Updates
  • CHANGELOG
• g.d.o: BOA

• How to disable all caching and aggregation? - Using dev. in in site alias disabled hardcoded performance. Also for PHP errors and logging.

• Are there any specific good habits to learn?
• The best recipes for disaster

Octopus

• Octopus installs alongside Barracuda, providing an Aegir satellite instance bundled with various distro install profiles and performance modules.

• Extra modules available in all platforms

/data/disk/o1/distro/001/ - platforms be here

Setup

• Barracuda: INSTALL.txt
• Octopus: INSTALL.txt

• Ubuntu Server
  • older script; boxbootstrap.sh

Use _FORCE_GIT_MIRROR=github because it is 10x faster than others.

Make sure that all sites have its associated Client, otherwise the site will be listed as available for all Clients/Users you have added.

• BOND.sh - tuning script

Upgrade

Do not use apt to upgrade the stack. Upgrading got easier with BOA 2. See UPGRADE.txt for full details.

# Download and run BOA Meta Installer.
wget -q -U iCab http://files.aegir.cc/BOA.sh.txt
bash BOA.sh.txt

# To upgrade system and Aegir Master Instance to Stable
barracuda up-stable

# To upgrade system and Aegir Master Instance to HEAD
barracuda up-head

# To upgrade selected Aegir Satellite Instance to Stable
octopus up-stable o1

# To upgrade *all* Aegir Satellite Instances to Stable
octopus up-stable all

# To upgrade selected Aegir Satellite Instance to HEAD
octopus up-head o1

# To upgrade *all* Aegir Satellite Instances to HEAD
octopus up-head all

Will honour settings in;

/root/.barracuda.cnf
/root/.o1.octopus.cnf
/root/.o2.octopus.cnf

Stack

• Nginx
• CSF/LDF [1]
• MariaDB / Percona
• PHP-FPM 5.3.13 with APC, phpredis, uploadprogress, suhosin and ionCube.
• Apache Solr with Tomcat
• Bind9 / pdnsd
• Webmin
• Chive / SQL Buddy
• CGP
• Aegir
  • http://drupal.org/project/boost

Caching

• Redis is an open source, advanced key-value store. It is often referred to as a data structure server since keys can contain strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets.

Development

Alias a dev.* site domain to bypass JS compression and CSS aggregation.

• http://omega8.cc/how-to-disable-all-caching-and-aggregation-115