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We're proud to announce the first release of the Aegir hosting system for Drupal.

Ægir is a new set of contributed modules for Drupal that aims to solve the problem of managing a large number of Drupal sites. It does this by providing you with a simple Drupal based hosting front end for your entire network of sites. To deploy a new site you simply have to create a new Site node. To backup or upgrade sites, you simply manage your site nodes as you would any other node.

This release is feature complete with the main roadmap of Aegir. It will allow you to install, back up, restore, enable, disable and delete your hosted sites. We were originally considering releasing an extra release candidate to make sure the first release was really rock solid, but since 0.2 (HEAD) progressed so quickly, we are now shortening the release cycle. We therefore want to shorten the release cycle to get more features out and favour greater adoption.

As our 0.1 release is nearing, I have been making some steps toward our 0.2 release. The onus for this progress has been some really exciting changes happening upstream in the Drush project.

Our 0.1 release was originally only going to manage a Drupal platform, with no support for hosting sites on Drupal 6. As the project wore on, we realized we needed to become invested in Drupal 6 very quickly, so we ported only the back end to Drupal 6, and have been maintaining the releases in parallel.

Living in sin with Drush 1.x

We're proud to announce the first release candidate of the Aegir hosting system for Drupal.

Ægir is a new set of contributed modules for Drupal that aims to solve the problem of managing a large number of Drupal sites. It does this by providing you with a simple Drupal based hosting front end for your entire network of sites. To deploy a new site you simply have to create a new Site node. To backup or upgrade sites, you simply manage your site nodes as you would any other node.

This release is feature complete with the main roadmap of Aegir. It will allow you to install, back up, restore, enable, disable and delete your hosted sites. This release will become the first stable in the next 2 weeks, if no more bugs are found. The only changes that will be allowed into this release are documentation and bug fixes.

Over the last few days the Aegir repositories have seen a lot of action. Most notably is that we will
now be shipping our first release with working, but still experimental support for multiple platforms.

What this means, is that you will be able to manage multiple Drupal code bases with a single install of
the hosting front end.

To simplify the process of creating a new backend system, we have built the <a href='http://drupal.org/project/hostslave>HostSlave install profile.

To turn a new drupal checkout into a viable platform, you install the hostslave platform onto it, then go into the directory
and run the 'provision setup' command, and then add it as a platform node to your hostmaster. You will now be able
to provision sites on the new platform.

Hi guys,

I'm just wondering if it is possible to manage Drupal 6.x sites with Aegir?

I see in the roadmap there's discussion regarding moving the front-end to D6. I'm not really fussed about that, but I would like to be able to deploy and manage 6.x sites with Aegir.

Great project. No doubt we'll help out if we end up using it.

Kind regards,
Ben

I just spent some time documenting the new installation wizard for Aegir, and annotating it on this hostmaster wizard photoset on flickr.

Example screenshot :

I've just published the 0.1-alpha2 release of hm2, which features extensive changes from the first alpha release 3 weeks ago.
We are now nearly feature complete for the 0.1 release, but there's still a fair amount of loose ends to clean up.

Release announcements:

Hostmaster : http://drupal.org/node/275709
Provision : http://drupal.org/node/275710
Hosting : http://drupal.org/node/275708

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