Doing Drupal on OpenShift

brenk28

This presentation will discuss lessons learned from Phase2's multsite Drupal 7 build for the State of North Carolina on OpenShift Online, Red Hat's public cloud application development and hosting platform. It provides an introduction to OpenShift as well as the specific solutions implemented on OpenShift to run the North Carolina platform. Attendees need not have any experience with OpenShift, though should have a basic knowledge of what DevOps is as well as Drupal multisites. Attendees should walk away with a solid foundation for getting started building Drupal on OpenShift as well as the DevOps features OpenShift provides.

It will cover:
  • OpenShift introduction and terminology
  • OpenShift Basics:
    • Action hooks
    • Adding PHP components
    • Backup and restore
    • Command-line interface
    • Environmental variables
    • Marker files
    • Scaling
  • Considerations and lessons learned from North Carolina platform implementation :
    • Database Caching
    • File system considerations
    • Search Solution
    • Varnish configuration

Session Track

DevOps

Experience Level

Intermediate

Drupal Version