DevPanel

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Derek Laventure

derek@consensus.enterprises

Land Back!

Guelph is traditional territory:

• Anishinabewaki ᐊᓂᔑᓈᐯᐗᑭ
• Haudenosaunee
• Attiwonderonk
• Mississaugas of the Credit

Treaties:

• Treaty 3
• Haldimand Treaty

Ottawa is traditional territory:

• Algonquin
• Haudonsaunee
• Mohawk

Treaties:

• Crawford’s Purchase

I offer respect and gratitude to the people who are past, present and future caretakers of this land.

Where are you? https://native-land.ca/

Who am I?

Derek Laventure (he/they)

• White middle-class able-bodied (gender)queer settler
• BSc Computer Science
  (University of Toronto 2000)
• 25+ years in tech industry trying not to get swallowed by Big Tech(tm)
• Founding partner of Consensus
• Tai Chi student and instructor

Consensus Enterprises

We help small teams do big things.

Making open and responsible tech accessible to purpose-driven teams

Drupal Creds

• Building Drupal sites since 4.6
• Building PHP/MySQL sites for several years prior
• On Drupal.org for 25 years 1 month (spiderman@drupal.org)
• Attended many DrupalCamps and several DrupalCons
• Aegir 3 User/Developer, Aegir 5 Maintainer
• Contributor to *many* Drupal related projects over the years
• At Consensus, 8+ years toward Drupal as application framework

Gratitude

Table of Contents

0. DevPanel?
1. Tour
2. Demo
3. Roadmap

What is DevPanel?

• "Platform as a Service" (aka PaaS).
• Site management console on top of Kubernetes.
• Runs your sites in your own cloud provider (AWS, DigitalOcean, Azure)
• Provides development and deployment workflows for web software
• Not just for Drupal!

DevPanel Concepts

• Workspaces
• Projects
• Branch deployments
• Custom domains
• Development Workflow
• Auto-deployments

Tour: Workspaces & Projects

• Workspaces are a connection to a Kubernetes cluster.
• Workspaces are a container for Projects
• Workspaces integrate Devpanel with a Cloud Provider (eg. AWS, OVH, DigitalOcean)

Workspaces

Projects

• Projects are a connection to a Git repository.
• Projects are a container for deployed site instances.
• Any branch can be deployed into the cluster.
• Projects can be custom or from a templates.

Tour: Branch deployments

• Every branch in your repository can be deployed
• Each deployment can be configured differently
• Min/Max container resources
• Auto-Pause (for dev deployments)

Custom domains

• Attaching a custom domain to a deployed site instance

Development

• Create a dev/QA environment for any branch
• Attach to VSCode server to make development changes
• Integrate with CI systems to auto-deploy

Auto-deployments

• Configure CI webhooks for GitOps CD functionality
• Updating a deployed instance with new changes

Demo

1. Create a Workspace
2. Create a Project
3. Deploy a Branch
4. Add a Custom Domain
5. Attach to VSCode and make a change
6. Auto-deploy a change

Roadmap

• Extending integration with other Kubernetes providers (GCP is almost ready).
• Consensus & DevPanel partnership.
• Deeper integration with DrupalForge.
• Enable cost reduction, enabling users to own their infrastructure.
• Middle-ground shared hosting service?

Thank you!