What Aegir Brings
You don't need to install a whole new administrative program to get everything under control. Aegir is a collection of Drupal modules that provides a front-end for all of your Drupal sites. Within Aegir you can:
- Deploy new sites just by creating a new Site node
- Back up your sites
- Upgrade your sites
- Stage and deploy database copying
- and more ...
Aegir already integrates with projects such as Development Seed's OpenAtrium (news, site). Development Seed is using this management tool in production even though it's still in Release Candidate stage, which is a huge vote of confidence.
What You'll Need
To use Aegir, you need root-level access to one or more LAMP servers (or another flavor of UNIX) running:
- Apache (news, site)
- PHP 5.2
- MySQL
- A Message Transfer Agent (MTA) like Sendmail
- Additional software depending on your particular flavor of server, as explained in the installation instructions
Of course, you're also going to need Drupal and to install the modules Aegir depends on, such as Drush. See the main Aegir page for more. Once you have Aegir installed, you can import existing Drupal sites into it, so you aren't limited to using this management tool for brand new installations.
Learning Opportunities
Webinar
Aug
11
Sun and Ski Sports: Using the CDP to Reach Customers Where They Are
Use Audience Segmentation to Maximize Customer Engagement
Conference
Aug
17
Digital Experience Summit - Q3 2022
How Great Organizations Empower Customer Experience Teams
Webinar
Aug
24
2022 State of Internal Communications: Trends, Challenges and more
A Simpplr Research Webinar
Conference
Oct
12
Digital Workplace Experience - Q4 2022
Succeeding in the Era of the Intelligent Workplace
For a demonstration of how Aegir allows you to rapidly deploy OpenAtrium sites, watch the video below:
Rapidly Deploy Atrium Sites with Aegir from Development Seed on Vimeo.
