In the world of Drupal, the terms “product” and “framework” represent two different approaches to how the platform can be used and who it serves.
A product in the Drupal sense refers to a ready-to-use solution that allows users to build and manage websites with minimal technical knowledge. It’s about offering a polished, user-friendly experience where the focus is on enabling non-developers — such as content editors or small organizations — to easily create and maintain …
At Consensus Enterprises, we’re dedicated to helping organizations transition
smoothly from Drupal 7 to Drupal 10 on Aegir 3. While we’re developing the
future of Drupal self-hosting with Aegir5, we
continue to see a …
In a recent project for a federal government client, we needed to upgrade
(rebuild, improve, and migrate content) an internal application from Drupal 7
to Drupal 10. One of the challenges we faced was to build reports that display a
large set of data fields pulled from a complex data model.
We found that using Views alone was insufficient to meet the performance and
maintenance requirements for these reports. This led us to develop Computed
Token Field as a way to
streamline Views configuration …
We are pleased to announce we’ve posted the first Aegir Dispatch on
Aegir5 to relaunch the
community site!
As mentioned in the post, we have continued evolving our list of high-level
User Stories describing the critical functionality required to plan a series of
Releases. We are continuing to break down these stories into a series of
Request For Comment (RFC) Release Epics.
This is work in progress, but we are eager to hear any feedback you may have :)
Back in June, we submitted a Pitch-burgh
pitch to seek
funding to finally get Aegir 5 fully off the ground.
Prior to that, we had been working to build a roadmap to push our prototype
implementation up to feature parity
and an initial release for broader community participation. In parallel to
that, we’d been publishing this series of posts with the goal of
culminating in a roadmap and action plan.
Unfortunately, we didn’t get selected at Pitch-burgh, and then summer vacation came, …
Consensus Enterprises is not your average technology company. We are a
collective of workers who are driven by optimism, equity, and a shared passion
for open-source technologies. Our mission is to build a company that doesn’t
just benefit a select few, but instead shares the rewards of our collective
hard work.
Having contributed to the Drupal community and others for over 20 years,
open-source technology is deeply ingrained in our DNA. We maintain the widely-used
Aegir hosting system, a …
Announcing “Pitch-burgh”, an innovation contest at DrupalCon Pittsburgh, where members of the Drupal community can pitch their ideas to receive funding.
[…] The entrepreneurs give short 2-3 minute presentations in the hopes of securing funding for their idea.
In previous posts we covered how the Frontend and queue mechanisms can talk
with the Backend. We also covered the stand-alone work we’ve been doing
within Drumkit to support Drupal on Kubernetes. In this
post, we’ll discuss how we plan to integrate this new Backend into the existing
Aegir 5 architecture.
To integrate the Kubernetes Backend into Aegir 5, we will need to build new
top-level entities (see this earlier post about
Clusters, Projects, Releases, and Environments) for the …
As mentioned in the first part of the series, our
most recent work on Aegir5 itself has been reworking the queue system. In this
post, we explore this topic in more detail.
The Aegir5 queue is implemented using
Celery, which is a full-featured
Python-based task queue, built atop RabbitMQ. Initially we built dispatcherd
which …
