provision

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 have just published the 0.1 Alpha 3 release of the Hostmaster 2 site instance management platform.

This is a much smaller bug fix release, which also includes some documentation we missed in the previous release. This release has also been tested with Drupal 5.8.

I have also updated the installation wizard walkthrough, and the user interface walkthrough is still current.