A short demonstration of the Aegir Hosting System for Drupal at the January Fresno Drupal User group.

1. Aegir Hosting System
Developed by: Adrian Rossouw of DevelopmentSeed
Presentation: Bob Kepford

2. Aegir is a set of Drupal
modules that helps you
maintain your Drupal
sites.

3. What do I need to run
Aegir?

4. 1) A system capable of running Drupal: This
system is entirely Drupal based, and has the same base
requirements that Drupal does.
2) A unix based operating system: The majority
of functionality in this system occurs in the back-end,
through command line scripting. There are also several
features (such as symlinks), that are not available to users
on Windows. There are no plans currently to add
windows support.
3) Your own server: The level of access required to
be able to configure this system is very far beyond what
is commonly available to users with shared hosting.

5. What can it do?

6. Rapidly deploy sites
Update Drupal core
Clone existing sites
Manage a lot of sites

7. Functionality
Front-end:
Drupal site that allows you to create/delete nodes but
the nodes are sites or platforms. The Hosting module
makes this possible
Back-end:
Drush and the Drush extension Provision make the
magic happen.

8. Terminology
Everything is a node
Uses Drupal’s multi-site functionality
Platforms: Drupal 6.15, OpenAtrium,
ManagingNews
Sites: Mysite.com, yoursite.com

9. Terminology
Task Queue:
Actions performed on the frontend are
sent to the Task Queue and executed on
a cron run.

10. Terminology
Installing Sites:
Installing a site is now just a couple of
clicks in your browser.

11. Terminology
Importing Sites:
It is easy(ish) to get your existing sites
into the Aegir system.

12. Terminology
Verifying Sites:
Aegir will check to make sure everything
is correct when performing a task like
creating/importing/migrating/cloning a
site.

13. Terminology
Migrating Sites:
You can migrate a site from one platform
to another platform. For example Drupal
6.14 to Drupal 6.15

14. Terminology
Cloning Sites:
You can clone any site in Aegir. Sweet!

15. Much More

16. Resources
groups.drupal.org/aegir-hosting-system
#aegir on irc.freenode.net
mig5.net/category/tags/aegir
mig5.net/content/introduction-aegir-
hosting-system