1. Lightning fast site building
with Aegir (and Drush)
Drupal Roadshow in Klagenfurt
Get the presentation from Berlin on Slideshare:
http://slidesha.re/k4aY6v
Iztok Smolič | @iztok | iztok@etelje.com | iztoksmolic.com

2. About
* only user of Drush and Aegir – not
involved in development
Drupal developer and designer
Co-founder of ETELJE, Drupal design
& development shop
Organizing Drupal events in Slovenia
Drupal Slovenia has ~20 active
members
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3. Ægir
Host your sites with style
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4. What is Ægir?
Hosting system for managing Drupal sites
It is basicaly a Drupal site with which you can control all of
your hosted sites
You can run tasks like:
Create, disable, delete sites
Backup site, restore backups
Migrate (update) sites
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5. Installation
Ægir is only a set of modules:
Hostmaster (http://drupal.org/project/provision)
Drush (http://drupal.org/project/drush)
Provision (http://drupal.org/project/provision)
Eldir Theme
Installation:
http://community.aegirproject.org/installing
apt-get install aegir
Hosted solutions like omega8.cc and Koumbit
Discussion and support:
http://community.aegirproject.org/discussion
IRC: #aegir @ irc.freenode.net
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6. Aegir
structure
Server
Additional to localhost we can
have multiple servers controlled
by one Ægir instance
Platform
Drupal core or distribution
located on a server.
Site
Instance of one site inside a
platform. Regular multisite
structure.
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7. Multisite
structure
Modules and
themes from
directory “all”
are available
by all sites in
the platform
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8. Tips
Updating site’s core with migrate task
example: create new platform Drupal 7.2 and
migrate from D 7.0 to D 7.2 platform
works for major versions migrations too (Ægir also
checks if modules are available for destination
version)
Clone site and perform module updates (you keep
the production site safe)
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9. Host distributions!
Distributions are Drupal’s packaged profiles for specific use.
Acquia 6 & 7 OpenPublic
OpenAtrium ManagingNews
Drupal Commons COD
OpenScholar Open Enterprise
Make you own “distributions” with favorite modules or even
installation profile.
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10. Advance use
Host sites on multiple servers – control with one Ægir
instance
Using Ægir in deployment workflow best practice:
(http://greenbeedigital.com.au/content/drupal-
deployments-workflows-version-control-drushmake-and-
aegir)
using platform for one site, versioned
Allowing clients to manage own sites – making a real
hosting platform
Expand:
http://community.aegirproject.org/contrib-modules
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11. Drush
Must have for all site builders
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12. What is drush?
Drush is a command line shell and scripting interface
for Drupal
Controlling your Drupal site outside of the
browser, from a terminal, (shell, command line, …)
Can be used without Ægir
Drush can be used on your local machine (works on
Win, OSX and Linux)
http://drupal.org/project/drush
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13. Use cases and examples
Site has a broken theme function and you can’t even
navigate to the performance page to clear the cache!
solution: drush cc all
You need to update the sites’ modules and themes.
much easier and faster: drush up
You download views and before enabling it you find out
that module ctools is needed!
drush dl views,
drush en views_ui
it will download and enable all dependencies modules
You forgot the admin password:
drush uli
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14. Demo Time
Get yours at http://omega8.cc/contact/Demo
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15. email me: iztok@etelje.com
tweet: @iztok
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