Aegir integration with Pantheon/Mercury

I'm strongly tempted to add "some" Mercury stuff to my all-in-one installer for Aegir on Nginx (Lucid, Karmic and Lenny compatible). Before CPH DrupalCon :)

I run alpha7 in mercury 1.0 and have run Aegir in it for many un-buggy perfect happy months... :)

I was unsuccessful at getting alpha8 to work with either mercury 1.0 or 1.1. However I was able to upgrade my alpha7 to alpha8 (on my server) with no problems. A fresh install on a fresh mercury wouldn't work.. killed I mean completely killed mysql db after 2nd verify of the first main Aegir site. I didnt have too much time to muck with it or figure the prob.. it was a clients server... so I just left Aegir out of the mix and went back to the boring standard way :(

Funny thing is it works great on my server which is an identical Mercury 1.0 AMI .. only difference is it was an upgrade and not a fresh install .. ive had Aegir on that box since alpha3 ... I will try the new alpha on a fresh install after they fix the drush issues though.

Hopefully it was a one off thing (although I tried 6 times) cause I love me some Aegir in Mercury.

I asked around on irc and got some pretty good tips .. the biggest being to use Debian which I scoffed at but now im not so sure. Ubuntu bit me about a week ago when I was setting up OpenSim .. it just wouldn't work ... so I decided to try Debian and it worked instantly with no fuss.

I may do a manual install of Mercury on Debian to see how it feels .. so far it feels the same but better somehow... in Debian I hear they have a better support/update setup than ubuntu though IDK really; I always thought they were nearly identical.. until recently.

I wonder if there was a specific reason Mercury folks chose Ubuntu over Debian?

Cheers!
Joshua

the sponsored the release =)

The power Mercury can really wield is in the platforms and not the actual Aegir app which performs fast enough IMO though more speed is always nice ;)

With full integration one could imagine automatic provisioning of solr & memcached cores, I think I read recently someones doing just that already.

Or even more exciting tie into the killer AWS api and provision whole servers, HD's etc for a site if ya want all in the same app. Makes me drool! lol love Aegir!

Hm, I didn't noticed any Varnish Barrier when running Aegir from under Mercury, but I had similar problems with non unique memcache_key_prefix, and works after following hack:

<?php # global settings

$thishost = $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'];

// Skip aegir console
if(!preg_match("/(aegir\.example\.com)/", $thishost)) {

    # Simpletest goodies from pressflow
    $GLOBALS['simpletest_installed'] = TRUE;
    if (preg_match("/^simpletest\d+$/", $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'])) {
      $db_prefix = $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'];
    }

    # Varnish reverse proxy on localhost
    $conf['reverse_proxy'] = TRUE;
    $conf['reverse_proxy_addresses'] = array('127.0.0.1');

    # Memcached configuration
    $conf['memcache_key_prefix'] = preg_replace('/\./', '-', $thishost);
    $conf['cache_inc'] = './profiles/<YOUR_PROFILE>/modules/contrib/memcache/memcache.db.inc';
    $conf['memcache_servers'] = array(
         '127.0.0.1:11211' => 'default',
    );
    $conf['memcache_bins'] = array(
          'cache'        => 'default',
    );

  // Adjust settings on admin/settings/performance.
  $conf['cache'] = CACHE_EXTERNAL;
  $conf['page_cache_max_age'] = 900;
  $conf['block_cache'] = TRUE;
  $conf['page_compression'] = 0; // We do this via mod_deflate.
  $conf['preprocess_js'] = TRUE;
  $conf['preprocess_css'] = TRUE;
}

Am I lost anything?