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Host Your Own Drupal

with Open Source

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Jon Pugh

Consultant & Contributor

12 years 6 months on Drupal.org

4 years an Aegir Maintainer

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Jon Pugh

Consultant & Contributor

THINKDROP

Since Dec 2009

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Past

Present

Future

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PROMISE

You can host your own websites with 100% free software.

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REALITY

Setup and Maintenance is hard and time consuming.

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Goal

To make hosting your own Drupal sites simple and easy.

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Goal

To make hosting your own Drupal sites simple and easy

FOR EVERYONE

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Drupal made building a website something anyone can do.

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We want to make hosting Drupal websites something anyone can do.

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The Past

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“Co-location”

“Dedicated Servers”

“Virtual Private Servers”

“Shared Hosting”

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Servers on Demand

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2006

2008

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2015

2012

2011

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Drupal Hosting

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1000s of blog posts & how to articles.

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$ apt-get install apache2 php5 mysql-server

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$ sudo service apache2 restart

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mod_rewrite

www-data

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chmod

chown

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System Requirements

WEB SERVER

Apache

NGINX

IIS

… anything that can run PHP

DATABASE SERVER

MySQL MariaDB Percona

PostgreSQL

SQLite

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System Requirements

WEB SERVER

Apache

NGINX

IIS

… anything that can run PHP

DATABASE SERVER

MySQL MariaDB Percona

PostgreSQL

SQLite

DON’T CARE

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System Requirements

WEB SERVER

Apache

NGINX

IIS

… anything that can run PHP

DATABASE SERVER

MySQL MariaDB Percona

PostgreSQL

SQLite

JUST WANT DRUPAL

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The Checklist

For Every Drupal Site

Upload Drupal Source code

Install LAMP Server Packages

Create Database

Create Database User

Create VirtualHost Config

Create settings.php file

Create a files folder

Set secure permissions

Setup SSL Certificates

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The Checklist

For Every Drupal Site

Upload Drupal Source code

Install LAMP Server Packages

Create Database

Create Database User

Create VirtualHost Config

Create settings.php file

Create a files folder

Set secure permissions

Setup SSL Certificates

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Crontab!

Backups!

DNS!

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The Checklist

For Every Drupal Site

Upload Drupal Source code

Install LAMP Server Packages

Create Database

Create Database User

Create VirtualHost Config

Create settings.php file

Create a files folder

Set secure permissions

Setup SSL Certificates

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DON’T CARE

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The Checklist

For Every Drupal Site

Upload Drupal Source code

Install LAMP Server Packages

Create Database

Create Database User

Create VirtualHost Config

Create settings.php file

Create a files folder

Set secure permissions

Setup SSL Certificates

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JUST WANT DRUPAL

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EASY!

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EASY?

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DON’T CARE

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JUST WANT

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DRUPAL

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Just Drupal

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SUPER

EASY!!!

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Not Open Source

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The Present

Aegir!

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10 YEARS

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Drupal + Drush = Aegir

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node/add/site

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Aegir

Fully

Automates

Your

LAMP

Stack

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Aegir

Takes your Site Nodes and does everything needed to install a �Drupal site:

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Aegir

Takes your Site Nodes and does everything needed to install a �Drupal site:

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Aegir

Takes your Site Nodes and does everything needed to install a �Drupal site:

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HTTPS

New Implementation of SSL for Aegir.
Includes support for LetsEncrypt.org: Free automatically renewing SSL certs FOR LIFE.
https://gitlab.com/aegir/hosting_https

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Monitoring

Aegir Monitoring API:�https://www.drupal.org/project/hosting_monitor
Aegir Reporting�https://www.drupal.org/project/hosting_report

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Monitoring

Graphite+StatsD+Grafana=

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Alerts

Grafana+WorldPing

Open Source Graphing Platform plus SaaS tool for monitoring from around the globe.

Alerts for downtime.

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Alerts

Grafana+WorldPing

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Continuous Integration

DevShop

Pull Request environments & Behat Testing OUT OF THE BOX.

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node/add/server

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Server Setup

used to be on you.

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CLOUD

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ANSIBLE

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ANSIBLE

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ANSIBLE REMOTE INVENTORY

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ANSIBLE

BENEFITS

No manual inventory management needed.
No manual ansible command typing.
Ansible runs are logged and visible in the web interface.

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ANSIBLE

BENEFITS

Central location for inventory, available over web request.
Remote servers can “pull” their configuration from the hostmaster site.

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ANSIBLE

DRAWBACKS

Standard Aegir method for putting files on the server. (RSYNC)
Hostmaster server pushes code to the remotes via RSYNC.
Playbooks still run as aegir@hostmater

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ANSIBLE

THE FUTURE

Ansible-Aegir-Agent:

Process runs on remote servers allowing them to configure themselves without giving out remote access, including code deploy.

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DOCKER

Docker Compose

Generate a definition of your Docker container groups in YAML.

Aegir generates docker-compose.yml and runs `docker-compose up`

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“Hosting Docker” module:

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“Hosting Docker” module:

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DOCKER

Generated Example:

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DOCKER

BENEFITS

No longer need to manually launch docker containers or manually manage docker-compose.yml
Easy scaling with `docker-compose scale` docker-machine, swarm, etc.

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DOCKER

BENEFITS

Allows separation of sites:�Each site can have it’s own set of containers, or can share with others.
Add additional services easily
Pre-configured load balancers, caches, etc.

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DOCKER

DRAWBACKS

Less familiarity among sysadmins.
You need either trust in the container authors or to learn how to build your own.

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The Future

More Docker!

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Docker-compose based multi-tenant

multi-app

hosting.

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NGINX-PROXY+ LETSENCRYPT

Host multiple web server containers on a single host.

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NGINX-PROXY+ LETSENCRYPT

Set the URLs for each container in environment variables.

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NGINX-PROXY+ LETSENCRYPT

LetsEncrypt “companion container” uses URLs in environment variables to register SSL Certificates automatically.

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Docker Host

Multiple Web Servers per Host

jwilder/nginx 0.0.0.0:80

APP_1

nginx web server

APP_2

nginx web server

DATABASE

mariadb

DRUSH

SSH Server allowing Drush Access

App

APP_1

“*:80”

DATABASE

mariadb

DRUSH

SSH Server allowing Drush Access

SOLR

APP_1

“*:80”

DATABASE

mariadb

DRUSH

SSH Server allowing Drush Access

docker-compose.yml

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MORE COLLABORATION!

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The Point

We deserve easy to use open source hosting tools.

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The Point

We can't do it alone.

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If Drupal can democratize Site Building, Aegir & DevShop can do the same for Hosting...

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...as long as we follow Drupal’s lead:

Modularity, Ease of Use, & Community.

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Join Us!

#aegir on IRC @aegirproject �docs.aegirproject.org