Burbank/Valley Meetup June 20

I second that. Deployment, aegis love please. I am signed up!

I did not have time to prepare slides on the topic (atleast not yet) though I do plan on it sometime soon (hopefully folks enjoyed my talk about why to use something like jenkins to 'building' and then to use aegir/capistrano/whatever to carry out that build for tracking). Its still a work in progress for me and I'm hoping to talk about it some more (and in a much more polished manner) in the future - maybe at a future Burbank meetup? (putting Ishmael/Matt on the spot ^~ I'm kidding ^^). I still have to publish the code out to the public to rip apart (I haven't yet since I want to clean it up a bit before going ahead). In the meanwhile, here are some great resources on the subject:

Jenkins:

• http://www.slideshare.net/sebastian_bergmann/continuous-integration-with... - Just a nice overview of Jenkins
• http://www.slideshare.net/kg4san/drupal-continuous-integration-with-jenkins - What I used to get started in setting up a jenkins 'build'

Aegir:

• http://community.aegirproject.org/ - Good documentation on getting started with Aegir

Jenkins + Aegir

• http://www.slideshare.net/drupol/development-workflow-with-drupal - nice intro on why jenkins + fabric + aegir
• http://mig5.net/content/zero-touch-drupal-deployment-jenkins-aegir-git-f... - Great resource on getting it all set up. Also visit his deployment script at http://github.com/mig5/aegir_cid which shows what his scripts look like (and what I am aiming for but with dynamic sites-on-a-platform migration)
• http://danepowell.com/content/updated-zero-touch-deployment-aegir-and-je... - A continuation of what mig5 wrote with a site migration.

Barracuda is essentially 'Aegir-in-a-box'. It is a script that you install on a 'bare' ubuntu or debian server (install either distro without any extra packages, do not run updates). Run its script and it will install nginx, mariada/perconadb (high performance variants of mysql), solr (optional), varnish (optional), and aegir for you in high-performance mode.

I'd also mentioned using capistrano as your other deployment tool. I'm personally a bit torn for which I love more between using fabric/aegir and using capistrano (they both have their positives/negatives and make more/less since in different scenarios). Aegir is a very nice way to manage platforms - I can say that for certain. Its works very well in managing a website through the different stages. And it works exceptionally well when dealing with large numbers of sites (I could present on that at some point to show just how powerful it is as a cpanel/plesk replacement for drupal sites). Folks saw me attempt to 'migrate' a site from D6 to D7 yesterday evening and 5 minutes later, it was complete (it also let me know how many upgrade fuctions were going to run, possible points of concern, and a few other things).

I haven't tried webistrano yet (and maybe it'll sway me towards capistrano even more), but the one thing I do like about capistrano is the fact that it is not centered around using a particular cms - very elegant.

Please post any questions you have and I'll try and answer them in better detail.