DIY Drupal Cloud

Drupal, Drush and Aegir 3 (and GNU Linux)

Aegir Summit

United Nations, NYC, NYC

Hosted at

Richard Stallman Keynote to Nyccamp

Richard Stallman Aegir Strategy Session

Hosted at

Aegir Summit NG Panel

Freedom Isn’t Free

Feel Free to Contribute Code or Coin or Kind

Freedom as in Free Speech that comes from too much Free Beer?

Never heard of this myself

Freedom as in Free Puppies?

What is the Total Cost of Ownership of a Puppy?

Freedom as in Rights of User

Free to attain, copy, modify, use, change etc

Inaugural Aegir Summit�2015 Nyccamp.org

Big Thanks to Forest Mars, Willy, Richard at nyccamp.org

Big Thanks to Richard Stallman of FSF for the Aegir Strategy Session

Big Thanks to Micky Metts at Agaric for coordination

Big Thanks to Miggle.co.uk for keystone training

Big Thanks to Christopher Gervais, Aegir Project Lead + helmo, gboudrias etc

​

Inaugural Aegir Summit�2015 Nyccamp.org

Big Thanks to NDITech Chris Dolten

Big Thanks to United Nations for facilities

Big Thanks to Matthew Hager, Poetic Systems, Sponsoring event

Big Thanks to All Speakers of the Summit

Big Thanks to ... all of you

​

Aegir 3

• http://AegirHostingSystem.com
• https://aegir.readthedocs.org/en/3.x/
• https://github.com/GetValkyrie

​

Aegir Cloud

• Vagrant local Valkyrie https://github.com/GetValkyrie/valkyrie
• cloud control panel Valhalla https://github.com/GetValkyrie/valhalla.control-panel
• AWS http://nyccamp.org/aegir-cloud

also Aegir 3 runs fine on AWS, vCloud, Rackspace, Digital Ocean, Vultr, ovh, Linode, Xenial, Wily, Trusty, Jessie, Wheezy, Centos, Redhat etc etc etc etc

​

GNU(A)egir? Strategy Session with RMS

“Are you offering paid support? If not, I suggest you do”

RMS

​

​

Aegir Cooperative Support

• An Aegir support cooperative is being formed in Montreal, Quebec
• Referral fee is offered for new clients
• fills gap between free community support via Freenode, Stack Exchange, Drupal.org, Github, etc and customized consulting and project work

Drupal Website Factories

Acquia Site Factory, Acquia Enterprise (Excellent, Expensive, Non Free)

Pantheon For Agencies, Multi Dev (Excellent, Less Expensive, Non Free)

Aegir cloud GIT & Drush Make workflow (Excellent, Free as in Puppies, Free Software)

Platform.sh ...

​

​

Aegir Summit 2015 nyccamp.org Report

• Ceci est une session d'introduction à Aegir en français, Guillaime Boudrias
• Promoting Global Democracy with Aegir, CiviParty and NDITech by Chris Doten, International Development & Technology Expert, National Democratic Institute
• Open Agency Website Production Line: Operational Freedom With Drupal & Aegir Simple sites or complex builds, Aegir has you covered! Roll-out a cookie-cutter site network, or master the complex challenge of a universal solution to build, deploy and maintain many distinctive sites. Steve Richards and Alick Mighal of miggle.co.uk, Brighton
• Aegir Strategy Session with Richard Stallman and Christopher Gervais For Aegir Summit Attendees ONLY, a strategy session on Aegir free software Drupal hosting

Aegir 4

• Container ideals
• Hackpad

Drupal Open PAAS

• Aegir is the mother of Drupal PAAS
• the future is open

Aegir 3 Rest API

Aegir 3 Restful services

https://www.drupal.org/project/hosting_services

​

Aegir 3 Git & DEV / TEST / LIVE

• Use GIT module in Aegir3
• create 3 platforms platform-DEV, platform-TEST, platform-LIVE
• use GIT to checkout tags or branches to coordinate code
• use Sync to sync db and files

​

Aegir Remote Import Module

• Move Aegir hosted sites between Aegir servers
• I.e. 3 servers, Aegir1 lab server, Aegir2 test server AWS, Aegir3 prod AWS
• use GIT to checkout tags or branches to coordinate platform code
• use Remote Import module and ssh keys of “aegir” GNU/Linux user to pull site db and files between Aegir servers
• I.e. Aegir1>Aegir2>Aegir3 or Aegir3>Aegir2>Aegir1 or Aegir1>Aegir3
• Isolated Aegir servers
• You could have 1 site on each running on LXC containers for massive density

​

Aegir Case Studies NDITech

• NDITech use Aegir to host Drupal sites running modified CiviCRM called CiviParty for civil society and democracy promotion in emerging democracies

​

Aegir Case Study Spidersnet

• Miggle.co.uk, UK agency use Aegir for client Spidersnet, that run an advertising network, for small businesses in verticals
• the agency builds distributions, advanced, basic, etc and the client, build sites
• Miggle moves up the value chain, doing advanced distribution building and delegate the site building to client who resell websites to end client
• TCO decreases

Aegir Case Study Wedful

• http://wedful.com/
• wedding websites
• templates
• paid hosting

​

Aegir Case Study GetOpenOutreach

• http://www.getopenoutreach.com/
• uses Aegir3 for hosting Open Outreach for non-profits

Next Steps

• Drupal 8
• Wordpress?
• Containers
• Cooperative
• Cloud

Next Steps

• DIYDrupalCloud.com ?
• AegirCloud.com ?
• SelfHostingSummit.org within nyccamp.org ?
• Xenial

​

Contacts

Nicholas Roberts

www.niccolox.org

niccolo.roberts@gmail.com