Deployotron

• What is Deployotron?
  It’s a deployment tool.
  A low-key approach to easy and safe deployment.
• When did you start developing it?
  Dec. 2013
• Why did you feel it was necessary to add another layer on top of Drush?
  Needed simple, safe, easy to grok deployment process. Not a Swiss army knife. Other solutions proved to be either too complex/feature-rich or require 3rd party software beyond a simple drush command.
• How does it work?
  Deployotron is implemented as a drush command.
  When deploying it runs a set of “actions” that does the different steps of deploying.
• What kinds of actions can you perform with Deployotron?
• Is this extendable? Can other developers add their own commands to be performed during deployment?
• Is there a way to configure deployment per environment? So that certain commands are always performed on Staging but not on Live.
• What needs to be setup before you can use Deployotron?
  Deployotron requires drush and the appropriate ssh public keys on the target servers.
  And Git.
• How does it improve the deployment workflow?
  Easy and fast deployment to other enviroments from the command line.
  Quick to set up for a new project.
• What if you mess up? Is there a rollback feature?
  There’s an OMG command which will import a dump and reset the codebase to the one that was deployed at the time.
• How does this integrate with other tools like Capistrano, Aegir, etc.
  It doesn’t. Deployotron was meant to be more of an alternative; a simpler one.
• So, is this aimed at people hosting on shared hosts? Or do you need a VPS at minimum?
  Not aimed at shared hosts, as such, but it does support it, given that you have ssh access and drush availability of course.

Use Cases

• How are you guys using it at Reload?
  Very carefully :-)
  With careless abandon.
• Do you know of anyone else using it?
  No, not specificly, but there was some interest at the DrupalHagen DrupalCamp.

WFTools

• What is WFTools?
• What does the WF stand for?
• How is this different from the workflow that hosts like Pantheon and #AberdeenCloud offer?
• What’s the history of WFTools? Why does it exist?
• What is the target audience?
• What modules does WFTools contain?
  • WF
    • The base configuration feature for WF.
  • WF Environment
    • Entity module for managing the individual environments for the site. The wf_environment_generic module is a feature which contains the recommended configuration for WF Environment.
  • WF Job
    • Each change for the site is handled in a job which tracks the content, code and config (in code as features). wf_job_generic is a feature with a working configuration.
  • WF Site
  • WF Storage
    • Simple persistent key/value storage system.
  • WF User
    • Contains the roles and basic permissions required for a functioning WF management node.
  • WF Jenkins
  • WF Git
  • WF SSH
• There’s an installation profile for this. Do I need to start with that? Or can I add this to an existing site?
• Can I use this today?

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