deployment

As you probably know if you've been using it for a while, Aegir is generally considered to have two hemispheres: one is Hostmaster / Hosting, the install profile and module set that make up the web-based Aegir frontend control panel.

This time two years ago, I wrote an article called Drupal deployment and workflows with version control, Drush Make and Aegir. It remains my most popular article on my site, according to my stats.

During a rather boring conference a few weeks back, I decided to convert my own infrastructure from 'standalone puppet' (that is, a set of standalone puppet manifests that were executed by a basic shell script on each server I managed) to the 'client -> server' or 'puppetmaster' model (whereby a central puppet daemon controls the manifests, and servers connect to it for updates as 'clients'.)

You can read more about the different models here.