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SCALING DRUPAL IN THE CLOUD Eric Johnson - Case Foundation Frank Febbraro - Phase2 Technology THE CHALLENGE Super high peak traffic for just a few hours Without going broke FROM THIS TO THIS TO THIS WITH JUST A FEW CLICKS THE PEOPLE Eric

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SCALING DRUPAL IN THE CLOUD

Eric Johnson - Case Foundation Frank Febbraro - Phase2 Technology

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THE CHALLENGE

Super high peak traffic for just a few hours Without going broke

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FROM THIS

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TO THIS

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TO THIS

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WITH JUST A FEW CLICKS

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THE PEOPLE

Eric at The Case Foundation

  • Was spending for boxes not always needed
  • Runs periodic campaigns (48,000 people donating for 6 month

grant competition)

  • Likes to send press releases
  • Moved Drupal to AWS in December 2007
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THE PEOPLE

Frank at Phase2 Technology

  • Architect
  • First significant AWS deployments
  • Kickoff to deployment in 5 weeks
  • Team developed code & deployment scaling concurrently
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IN THE CLOUD

The Promise The Challenge

Servers when you need Configuration, please Multiple datacenters Filesystem sync Pay for what you need $70/month/cpu + bandwidth

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WHAT IS AWS?

Amazon Web Services

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S3

super simple storage

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EC2

elastic compute cloud

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EBS

elastic block storage

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SHUT UP ALREADY!

how do I actually deploy & scale my site

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OUR SOLUTION

  • multiple front ends
  • master/slave database
  • dedicated edit server
  • ebs mounted filesystems (files & db)
  • sync files to front ends every minute
  • not ideal for large number of editors
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SOLUTION

Master Slave Load Balancer (or DNS) Edit Front-ends

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now it is time to develop your deployment

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directly on on aws

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DO YOU NEED HELP?

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CLOUD MANAGEMENT

RightScale, Scalr, etc.

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we chose RightScale

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WHY RIGHTSCALE?

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LETS GET TO IT

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register with load balancer deploy site, restore db vhost install, customize config mount EBS, DNS AMI - O/S php, httpd, apc, memcached

Boot Scripts

EC2 Instance

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register with load balancer deploy site, restore db vhost install, customize config mount EBS, DNS AMI - O/S php, httpd, apc, memcached

Boot Scripts

EC2 Instance

Operational Scripts

failover site deployment backup snapshot

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M

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i n g & A l e r t s Operational Scripts

failover site deployment backup snapshot

EC2 Instance

register with load balancer deploy site, restore db vhost install, customize config mount EBS, DNS AMI - O/S php, httpd, apc, memcached

Boot Scripts

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template everything

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what about test, stage & production

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failover

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is the cloud right for you?

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QUESTIONS?

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OR DROP US A NOTE

  • Eric Johnson

Director of Technology The Case Foundation @elstudio http://el-studio.com/tag/cloud/

  • Frank Febbraro

CTO Phase2 Technology @febbraro http://agileapproach.com