DrupalCon London 2011 - deployment

With One Click

manarth — Sun, 15 May 2011 17:31:36 +0000

Marcus Deglos

Joel Spolsky describes the Joel Test as his "highly irresponsible, sloppy test to rate the quality of a software team" and one of the questions he asks is: Can you make a build in one step?

If you're a Drupal developer who's making changes to a site, your deployment process to push those changes to live probably goes something like this:

Intended Audience:

developers, sysadmins

Questions answered by this session:

What tools are available to help deployment?

What changes do you need to make to your infrastructure to take advantage of these tools?

How can you automate the build of a new environment?

How can you deploy a site with a single click?

Schedule info

Time slot:

23 August 10:45 - 11:45

Room:

Fairfield Room

Slides:

with one click.pdf

Aegir: One Drupal to Rule Them All!

Steven Jones — Fri, 13 May 2011 20:47:52 +0000

Antoine Beaupré

Steven Jones

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?

Schedule info

Time slot:

24 August 12:30 - 13:30

Room:

Maple Room

Slides:

aegir-session-slides.pdf

Content Staging and Deployments in Drupal 7

dixon_ — Fri, 13 May 2011 18:14:45 +0000

Dick Olsson

Katherine Bailey

Content staging and deployment strategies are something that many site builders are fighting with. Publishers wants to preview and optimize content or whole sections of a site, before publishing it live. Another scenario is where publishers wants to deploy content from one site to a network of sub sites, or similar. It's a complex problem to solve.

Intended Audience:

Site builders and configurators. Basic Drupal knowledge will help.

Questions answered by this session:

How do I preview pieces of content or whole sections of my site, before publishing it live?

How do I set up an environment that supports content staging?

How do I configure the Deploy module for Drupal 7?

How will the Configuration Management Initiative help content staging and deployments in the future?

Schedule info

Time slot:

25 August 11:00 - 12:00

Room:

Concert Hall

Slides:

Content_Staging_and_Deployments_in_Drupal.pdf

Drush Deploy

msonnabaum — Thu, 12 May 2011 03:23:22 +0000

Mark Sonnabaum

Moshe Weitzman

From small sites to large, drush is an essential tool in a drupal deployment strategy. Many of us are already using commands like rsync, sql-sync, features-revert, and updatedb as steps in our deployment workflow.

Tools to manage deployments however are often varied (capistrano, fabric, puppet, chef, hudson, etc), and foreign (ruby/python). In this session, the maintainers of drush will introduce a new tool for managing deployments: drush deploy. This tool does some of what those tools do, all in a comfortable drush and PHP environment.

Intended Audience:

All developers and sysadmins.

Questions answered by this session:

How can drush help automate tasks during deployment?

Why should I be using a deployment tool?

What is drush deploy?

How can drush deploy simplify drupal deployments?

Who is drush deploy best suited for compared to other deployment tools?

Schedule info

Time slot:

25 August 14:45 - 15:45

Room:

Concert Hall

Easy Drupal Hosting Lifecycle: Local Dev, Production Deploy, Cloud Scale, and Sleep Well.

bjaspan — Mon, 09 May 2011 14:00:50 +0000

Barry Jaspan

Drupal site best practice workflow includes initial development on local workstation, testing in a staging environment, and a production environment ranging from a single server to a high-performance high-availability cluster. After initial deployment, future versions go through the same workflow with the additional need to run tests based on the current production database and filesystem.

In this session, I'll demonstrate how to easily develop, test, and scale your Drupal site through this entire lifecycle without losing your mind.

Intended Audience:

This session is for anyone that builds or deploys Drupal sites for their own organization or for clients.

Questions answered by this session:

How can I get develop locally and easily deploy the site to a high performance server or cluster?

How do I seamlessly and automatically scale my production web site up and down to handle varying traffic, without downtime?

How do I keep track of multiple Drupal sites, databases, and files directories, each with a development, testing, and production environment?

How do I ensure my site stays up 24x7 even when one or more servers fail?

Who do I go to when I encounter an server operation or Drupal problem I need help with?

Schedule info

Time slot:

23 August 13:00 - 14:00

Room:

Concert Hall

Slides:

Dev-Deploy-Scale-Sleep.key.pdf