BOA Drupal camp Skopje 2015

Barracuda on Aegir is a Drupal hosting solution. This talk was given for Drupal Camp Skopje held in Skopje, Macedonia on May 3, 2015.

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WemboKD6oBA

Transcript

1. MLADEN ĐURIĆ @MacMladen 1
2. THANKS ! 2
3. TIME SPACE CONTINUUM THE EXISTENCE OF GOD AND OBJECT ORIENTED PHP IN DRUPAL 8 Mladen Đurić @macmladen 3
4. BOA BARRACUDA OCTOPUS ÆGIR ~ HOW TO RUN A WEB SERVER LIKE A PRO ON CHEAP ~ Mladen Đurić @macmladen 4
5. MLADEN ĐURIĆ a.k.a MacMladen • in IT since the time of mainframes, 8th year in UNIX epoch (that’s 1978). • started with Z80 assembly, went over 6502 to 8086 (1978-1990) • somewhere in between, there was an episode with BASIC but really enjoyed hard core C • was knee deep in DTP 1990-2000 • gone to Mac in 1995 and never looked back • 2005 started playing with web technologies • 2007 landed on Drupal :D 5
6. TIMETABLE: • Shared hosting: ~10 min • Ægir: ~30 min • Q & A: 15 min or more 6
8. THE SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST 8
9. Chapter 1. SHARED HOSTING 9
10. NOT ALL HOSTINGS ARE THE SAME Requirements: • some Linux • Apache • PHP • MySQL • FTP • SSH access • Unlimited everything • Disk • Transfer • Domains • Databases • Users 10
11. HITTING THE WALL The limits • CPU • Memory • Database • Caching (APC, opcache) • Extra PHP stuff (uploadprogress, xdebug) • Tweaks 11
12. DREAMHOST: LOVE & HATE Tuned: • Users: unlimited! • Memory: .htaccess raised! • Database: horor, hell. • Caching (APC, opcache) — added! • Extra PHP stuff added! (uploadprogress, xdebug) • Tweaks — totally customized :D 12
13. Chapter 2. EVALUATING DRUPAL HOSTING OPTIONS 13
14. My favourite 8086 assembler directive ASSUME NOTHING 14
15. IMPORTANT QUESTIONS Who you are? • Service or VPS? Who your clients are? • Service or VPS? System skill level • Will you be able to cope with system maintaining Resources needed • Service or VPS? • Sites • Memory • CPU • Disk • Transfer • SSL • IP Budget Client expectations, sensitivity • Security, maintenance, performance World region • Proximity to client market 15
16. Chapter 3. TESTING FOR VPS 16
17. AWS FREE TIER MICRO INSTANCE EC2 t2.micro: • 1 CPU • 1 GB • 30 GB of EBS • World region • Spot vs Reserved • Load balancing http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/ 17
18. Chapter 4. BUILDING THE VPS 18
19. $10 = 1 CPU, 1GB, 30GB • Cheaper plan is just too small. • 1GB is enough for moderate use but will not allow Solr and memory use will be ~700-800MB active • 2GB would raise MySQL cache, allow for Solr (~200MB) and leave some room for more performance. • 4GB is expensive -> Dedicated 19
20. INSTANCE BUILD: DEBIAN 7 32BIT • Debian: 6 or 7 • Ubuntu • CentOS • FreeBSD • Darwin/Mac? • some exotic? • 32 bit
 No need for less than 4GB • 64 bit
 Imperative if you have more than 4GB 20
21. SUPPORTED LTS OS 32/64BIT MINIMAL ON SERVER OR DESKTOP ON LOCALHOST • Debian 7 Wheezy (recommended) • Debian 6 Squeeze (fully supported with automatic upgrade to Wheezy available) • Ubuntu Trusty 14.04 (limited support) • Ubuntu Precise 12.04 (limited support) • Ubuntu Lucid 10.04 (limited support) 21
22. Chapter 5. UNDERSTANDING AEGIR 22
24. Chapter 6. BUILDING THE BOA 24
25. REQUIREMENTS FOR BOA • wget must be installed. • The git standard port 9418 must be open. • SMTP standard port 25 (or SMTP relay) must be open for outgoing connections. • Minimum 1 GB of RAM • Locales with UTF-8 support, otherwise en_US.UTF-8 (default) is forced. • Basic sysadmin skills and experience. • Willingness to accept BOA PI (paranoid idiosyncrasies). 25
26. BOA INSTALLATION IMPORTANT! • Don't run any installer via sudo. • You must be logged in as root or `sudo -i` first. • Don't run any system updates before running Barracuda installer. • You should use vanilla system. # cd # wget -q -U iCab http://files.aegir.cc/BOA.sh.txt # bash BOA.sh.txt 26 You are prepared now. But before starting installation, you have to configure it first.
27. BARRACUDA IMPORTANT! • Don't run any installer via sudo. • You must be logged in as root or `sudo -i` first. • Don't run any system updates before running Barracuda installer. • You should use vanilla system. # cd # wget -q -U iCab http://files.aegir.cc/BOA.sh.txt # bash BOA.sh.txt # … { make changes in .barracuda.cnf and .octopus.cnf } # boa in-stable public server.mydomain.org my@email o1 # boa in-stable public server2.mydomain2.org my2@email o2 mini 27
28. Chapter 7. MIGRATING SITES 28
29. Chapter 8. MAINTAING SITES 29
30. Q & A BARRACUDA ON AEGIR ~ MY FIRST YEAR ~ Mladen Đurić @macmladen 30
31. THANKS! BARRACUDA ON AEGIR ~ MY FIRST YEAR ~ Mladen Đurić @macmladen 31