DrupalCon Amsterdam 2014: Turning Drupal Into a Machine for Automated Deployment

This talk features speakers pwolanin and Nick, who discuss Acquia Search, a hosted Apache Solr service provided by Acquia since 2009. They detail the recent infrastructure relaunch that enhances automation and integration with other systems, highlighting the role of a custom Drupal site as a deployment machine. The session covers challenges in operations and development, server configuration management for Apache Solr, and request handling with Nginx for load balancing. Attendees will learn how to automate the spawning of search cores for customers and explore the potential of Drupal as an automation tool for deployment management.