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 …
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 …
In our previous post, we looked at the Tasks
and Operations which form the building blocks for the user interface in Aegir5.
Here we’ll look at the additional entities required to support the
Kubernetes-based backend framework.
It is worth noting that Aegir has always had a tension between Developer and
SysAdmin use-cases. We’ll cover this in more depth in a later post. For the
moment, we’re focused on the Developer use-case.
In our previous post, we talked about our recent
client work building a Kubernetes-based system for hosting web applications.
We’ve defined a general framework to support our development and production
hosting workflows, and recognized this as a solid basis for an alternate
backend to plug in to the existing Aegir5 front-end. Today we’ll take a look at
the Drupal architecture underlying that front-end.
In Aegir5, the building blocks consist of Task and Operation entities. Tasks …
Aegir5 development is happening! We (Consensus) have been making steady
progress on it over the last few years and are looking to kick off a new burst
of focused development. Here’s a summary of progress that has been made so far
and how you can contribute.
First off, as you’re probably aware, Aegir5 is a
complete re-write of Aegir. We are intending to build on all the great aspects
of Aegir, while freeing ourselves from a
codebase that is rooted in PHP 4. We’re using D9+ …
For the past few months, we’ve been working with the Drupal Association on a project to enhance the security of the Drupal.org software repository. The most succinct way of describing this project is:
Securing automated software deployments from supply chain attacks.
Recently, on a long drive with my mother, I tried to explain this project to her. She is probably the least technical person I know. This may sound like the common tech trope, but it’s not. This has nothing to do with …
