Posted by bwood on March 15, 2010 at 5:59pm
I just published my Puppet code. Any of you already using Puppet (http://projects.reductivelabs.com/projects/puppet/wiki/)?
http://github.com/bwood/puppet-aegir
Features of my module:
- Provides some distro-specific customization for
Debian/Ubuntu/RHEL/CentOS. (Only tested with RHEL.) - Creates the user Aegir
- Installs aegir's public key
- Adds host key for aegir frontend server to known hosts
- Installs git and unzip
- Downloads the aegir install script
** patches the aegir install script: http://drupal.org/node/736794
(add -y argument) - Runs the aegir install script with the -b flag to install the "backend"
- Create a symlink to Aegir's apache.conf
- Creates directories for Aegir platforms (locations where Drupal is installed).
** Each platform directory can contain multiple subdirectories for "environments"
such as "dev" "qa" "testing" "prod" - Deploys one or more tarballs of drupal core on each platform
- Restarts apache
** restart apache whenever changes to apache configuration files are detected.
"Bonus Features"
* Installs mig5's backup script and sets up a cronjob to run it.
** http://www.mig5.net/content/aegir-batch-site-backup-script
** Optionally, prune backup files after a certain period.
* Checkout SVN-managed sites/all/modules collections for each server.
** These are the modules always present in our default Drupal site
installation.
Comments
Very cool! Im looking to do
Very cool!
Im looking to do something similar with bcfg2 since im using that anyhow with the Mercury stuff.
Is there any particular reason you chose puppet over bcfg2?
I was already working with
I was already working with Puppet and liked it. I know that Josh Koenig at ChapterThree.com is using bcfg2 so it would probably be a good match for Mercury--in fact I think he may have some code written.... I want to take a look at Mercury when I get my basic server config solid. Maybe I'll port your bcfg2 stuff to Puppet at some point so that people have options. Be sure to let us know when you publish.
Yeah he's got it posted
Yeah he's got it posted already and it works quite well. Although there is not an aegir branch yet, it does do a fantastic job of configuring the system memcached, solr, varnish & all those other goodies. Aegir is pretty easy to install from that start point so I haven't tried to tweak the bcfg2 setup myself, should only be a minor adjustment though. It's been great following along with pantheons dev those guys rock!
I'll have to check out puppet, at first glance it seems like bcfg2 might be more flexible but ive not really had a good test run of puppet yet.
Cheers!
Joshua
Pushed new version
More detail in the README: http://github.com/bwood/puppet-aegir
Very exciting
Will be using this, seems like teh Awesome Sauce