Building Drupal site factories - everything you need to know

More and more we are approached by the various clients who needs to build and deploy large network of Drupal websites in the transparent and manageable way. They all are speaking about site factories, but what are they really? How to build them? 

Already delivered several site factories we want to share with you the knowledge and the results.

Keypoints:

• Code and platform organisation in the fast paced continuos Drupal delivering process by multiple development agencies
• Drupal development cookbooks (your own Drupal best practices respected by your development agency)
• Tools and processes of automated deployments (platform teams, development teams, etc)
• Central code management and project management
• Tools for self-checks (code quality, automated testing)
• Release management that works
• Choosing hosting partner or building your own
• Your own Drupal-based core distribution, easily maintainable
• Automated process of security updates for Drupal core and modules
• ....And the real world examples of site factories!