This session will illustrate the use of the Aegir hosting system to simplify the life of developers and administrators, by automating the common tasks involved in deploying and managing sites.
Aegir is a distributed provisioning system for Drupal that allows you to manage thousands of sites across as many concurrent instances of Drupal on as many servers as you need. It's built on Drupal itself, so that your user interface to the system becomes a 'meta-drupal' site, with nodes representing all of your hosted sites and all of the components of your hosting environment.
Intended audience
* Drush users wanting to take the next step
* Any Drupal developer having more than one site to manage
* Anybody concerned about maintenance and security of their Drupal sites
* Custom niche application developers needing to roll out new sites quickly and efficiently
* Anyone tired of wasting time on the tedious manual tasks associated with running a Drupal site
Questions answered by this session
What is Aegir, why should I use it and how the heck do we pronounce it?
How do I do security upgrades on all my Drupal sites without being stressed out (e.g. how could we maintain all those Drupalcon sites for security upgrades)?
How do I deploy my custom Drupal distributions and sites quickly?
Who uses Aegir and how?
