Aegir and Drush - kicking tires and looking under the hook

In early 2009, Robin researched and implemented the aegir hosting system for a client project with Affinity Bridge. The project used aegir 0.1 to easily deploy identical Drupal sites using Install Profiles. Aegir is now in version 0.3 and it continues to inspire and amaze. In his presentation, Robin will revisit the aegir installation and review the improvements since the first major release; including the ability to migrate sites from D5 to D6. Additionally, Robin will cover a quick and dirty Drush introduction for those not familiar with the awesomeness on which aegir is built. aegir (formally known as Hostmaster2) is a set of modules for Drupal which allows you to deploy and maintain other Drupal sites. The aegir hosting system was created by Adrian Rossouw (formally Bryght, now with Development Seed) and continues to evolve with an active developer community.