I would throw Domain Access in a similar category. http://drupal.org/project/domain: "The Domain Access project is a group of lightweight modules that provide tools for running a group of affiliated sites from one Drupal installation and a single shared database." Cheers, blake hall On Mar 24, 2008, at 12:30 PM, Angela Byron wrote:
At Drupalcon, there was all kind of talk around challenges like how to manage a collection of multisite installs, how to do things like run cron or update.php on 60 gazillion sites, how to enable/disable "packages" of modules/functionality to avoid having to click through 10,000 things, how to migrate database changes from one site to another, etc.
I'm planning on spending a few hours this week trying out various Drupal packaging/site provisioning systems and writing up a report comparing/contrasting them.
Here are the modules I know about in this space:
http://drupal.org/project/patterns: Module/system configurations that can be run at any time
http://drupal.org/project/hostmaster: Bryght's multisite hosting managed site deployment framework, which includes http://drupal.org/project/hosting and http://drupal.org/project/provision
http://drupal.org/project/autopilot: Migrate changes from dev to live
http://drupal.org/project/deploy: Migrate changes from dev to live
http://drupal.org/project/drush: Command-line tool containing a bunch of useful commands such as running cron, downloading modules, etc.
Any others I should be taking a look at?
-Angie