Hi,
I took a stab at updating the cookbooks we use for the website to use
centos8. Motivation was getting a new version of php so we can use
some drupal plugins that dont support php5.4, but i think this was on
the backlog already for a while.
https://github.com/socallinuxexpo/scale-chef/pull/283
To test this out, I spun up scale-web2 with a clone of the production
scale-drupal database, and then pointed my host file at it for
www.socallinuxexpo.org:
I then tested the following:
- chef runs complete end to end
- Backing up / restoring static assets (see backup scripts in
/usr/local/bin or in the scale-drupal cookbook)
- browsing legacy static website (eg
https://socallinuxexpo.org/past/2002/https://socallinuxexpo.org/past/2003/)
- Registering as a speaker, confirming that I got the email and that
my account worked.
- publishing the submitted talk
- creating sponsors/exhibitors/blog post/events/etc
Pending things:
- Centos8 seems to default to using php-fpm instead of mod_php. Not
opposed but it's different. Seems to work fine, but I've not load
tested it or anything.
- drush (https://www.drush.org/) packages no longer seemed to be
present in centos or epel. remi seems to have it but the drush docs
suggest we should be installing this in our drupal code base via
composer instead of as a package. I dont have strong opinions, but we
should figure out the right path before merging.
Cheers,
Ilan
