City of San Francisco's Sites Migration

Roles: 

Summary: 

The municipal government in San Francisco needed a complete migration of all of its Drupal sites from one hosting service provider to another.

Services provided: 

  • Assessed possible site and code repository architectures, and dealing with related issues.
  • Solved various issues with migrating and importing sites into the new environments.
  • Discussed possible single sign-on (SSO) strategies.
  • Coordinated with new hosting provider.
  • Set up access to virtual machines (VMs) for developers & other maintainers.
  • Created master Drush configuration for all sites.
  • Prepared to launch sites into production.
  • Investigated various caching issues with Redis, etc.
  • Reconfigured the Solr search engine.