On Friday, October 26th, I presented at DrupalCamp Ottawa 2018. That's the annual gathering of the Drupal community in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
Session information:
Are you (considering) building a SaaS product on Drupal or running a Drupal hosting company? Have you done it already? Come share your experiences and learn from others.
On Saturday, August 11th, Christopher Gervais and I presented at Drupal North 2018. That's the annual gathering of the Drupal community in southern Ontario and Quebec, Canada.
My tenure with the Ægir Project only dates back about 7 or 8 years. I can’t speak first-hand about its inception and those early days. So, I’ll leave that to some of the previous core team members, many of whom are publishing blog posts of their own.
As I've been architecting Drupal solutions for almost ten years now, I've accumulated quite a bit of knowledge on devops best practices, which constitutes a sizeable amount of the consulting that I do. This includes documentation, configuration management, development processes and deployment processes. In this article, I'll be introducing Drupal Helpers, a collection of standard scripts and configurations that I use on all of my client projects (where applicable).
Upgrading Drupal distributions, technically referred to as installation profiles, can be tricky. If you aren't using Drupal Core, but rather a distribution of it, it's not possible to follow standard processes for upgrading Drupal core and contributed modules. You must upgrade the distribution as a whole.
There are many Web hosting companies claiming their ability to host Drupal sites in the enterprise space. However, most of the time, these providers simply provide the hardware or a virtual machine (VM/VPS) with an operating system (OS) capable of hosting Drupal if you build the application stack, configure it and manage it all yourself. They may even claim that they can set all of this up for you, but they'll charge extra for the labour. They don't have a comprehensive platform as a service where instances can be automatically deployed as needed.
While there are many articles on the Web comparing the two version control systems (VCSes)Subversion (SVN) and Git (i.e. SVN vs. Git), many of them are overly technical. This one, however, attempts to provide a higher-level business case for making the switch.
Several months ago, I ran a session on the subject at DrupalCamp Montreal. I educated attendees on how Git submodules can be used with Drupal to take advantage of some Git features that wouldn't otherwise be realized.
