Scaling Drupal in the Amazon Cloud - Slides from DrupalconDC

SCALING DRUPAL IN THE CLOUD Eric Johnson - Case Foundation Frank Febbraro - Phase2 Technology Friday, March 6, 2009

THE CHALLENGE Super high peak trafﬁc for just a few hours Without going broke Friday, March 6, 2009

FROM THIS Friday, March 6, 2009

TO THIS Friday, March 6, 2009

WITH JUST A FEW CLICKS Friday, March 6, 2009

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 Friday, March 6, 2009

THE PEOPLE Frank at Phase2 Technology • Architect • First signiﬁcant AWS deployments • Kickoff to deployment in 5 weeks • Team developed code & deployment scaling concurrently Friday, March 6, 2009

IN THE CLOUD The Promise The Challenge Servers when you need Conﬁguration, please Multiple datacenters Filesystem sync $70/month/cpu + bandwidth Pay for what you need Friday, March 6, 2009

WHAT IS AWS? Amazon Web Services Friday, March 6, 2009

S3 super simple storage Friday, March 6, 2009

EC2 elastic compute cloud Friday, March 6, 2009

EBS elastic block storage Friday, March 6, 2009

SHUT UP ALREADY! how do I actually deploy & scale my site Friday, March 6, 2009

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 Friday, March 6, 2009

SOLUTION Load Balancer (or DNS) Edit Front-ends Master Slave Friday, March 6, 2009

now it is time to develop your deployment Friday, March 6, 2009

directly on on aws Friday, March 6, 2009

DO YOU NEED HELP? Friday, March 6, 2009

CLOUD MANAGEMENT RightScale, Scalr, etc. Friday, March 6, 2009

we chose RightScale Friday, March 6, 2009

WHY RIGHTSCALE? Friday, March 6, 2009

LETS GET TO IT Friday, March 6, 2009

Friday, March 6, 2009

EC2 Instance Boot Scripts Friday, March 6, 2009

EC2 Instance Boot Scripts AMI - O/S Friday, March 6, 2009

EC2 Instance Boot Scripts php, httpd, apc, memcached AMI - O/S Friday, March 6, 2009

EC2 Instance Boot Scripts mount EBS, DNS php, httpd, apc, memcached AMI - O/S Friday, March 6, 2009

EC2 Instance Boot Scripts vhost install, customize conﬁg mount EBS, DNS php, httpd, apc, memcached AMI - O/S Friday, March 6, 2009

EC2 Instance Boot Scripts deploy site, restore db vhost install, customize conﬁg mount EBS, DNS php, httpd, apc, memcached AMI - O/S Friday, March 6, 2009

EC2 Instance Boot Scripts register with load balancer deploy site, restore db vhost install, customize conﬁg mount EBS, DNS php, httpd, apc, memcached AMI - O/S Friday, March 6, 2009

EC2 Instance Operational Scripts Boot Scripts register with load balancer deploy site, restore db vhost install, customize conﬁg mount EBS, DNS php, httpd, apc, memcached AMI - O/S Friday, March 6, 2009

EC2 Instance Operational Scripts backup snapshot Boot Scripts register with load balancer deploy site, restore db vhost install, customize conﬁg mount EBS, DNS php, httpd, apc, memcached AMI - O/S Friday, March 6, 2009

EC2 Instance Operational Scripts site deployment backup snapshot Boot Scripts register with load balancer deploy site, restore db vhost install, customize conﬁg mount EBS, DNS php, httpd, apc, memcached AMI - O/S Friday, March 6, 2009

EC2 Instance Operational Scripts failover site deployment backup snapshot Boot Scripts register with load balancer deploy site, restore db vhost install, customize conﬁg mount EBS, DNS php, httpd, apc, memcached AMI - O/S Friday, March 6, 2009

EC2 Instance Operational Scripts M failover o n site deployment i t backup snapshot o r Boot Scripts i n register with load balancer g deploy site, restore db & vhost install, customize conﬁg A l e mount EBS, DNS r t php, httpd, apc, memcached s AMI - O/S Friday, March 6, 2009

template everything Friday, March 6, 2009

Friday, March 6, 2009

what about test, stage & production Friday, March 6, 2009

failover Friday, March 6, 2009

is the cloud right for you? Friday, March 6, 2009

QUESTIONS? Friday, March 6, 2009

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 Friday, March 6, 2009

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