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Hi, all. Been a while. Five years since I posted a blog. I can't lie. It's been rough.

I have much to discuss, from my mental health condition to my open source projects. It's really hard for me to publish things when my life is in disarray, but now is the time to rebuild.

Over the next few weeks I am going to start writing regularly, both on technical and personal subjects. I've got some exciting new modules, new services like training, and tons of helpful Drupal information that I'd like to share.

As we head into DrupalCon week I've got something big to announce. With the blessing of the Aegir core maintainers, I am taking the 4.x branch of Provision I have been working on and I am separating it from the Aegir Project.

Provision 4 will still power Aegir. We are working on a patch to Hostmaster that will allow us to run a different command other than Drush, allowing Provision4 to become the primary back-end to Aegir 4. This means it will also be able to power the current generation DevShop.

In just a few hours, the first serious critical security update for Drupal since "Drupalgeddon" will be released.

To make this update easier for DevShop users, we've pushed out a new release with 2 features that allow you to update your sites without ever leaving your web browser: "Update, Commit & Push" and "Tag a Release".

"Commit & Push"

The "Update Drupal" button has been available in DevShop for some time, but now you can automatically commit the results by checking a box.

I presented at the first Drupal NYC Meetup of the year!

I've been hard at work building a new Provision: the command-line interface for Aegir. We are moving off Drush commands into our own CLI built in Symfony. The tool is finally a working MVP, so I figured it's time to spread the word! 

First I give a bit of background on the Aegir project and my goals for the project which can be summed up in one word: easy.

Last week I was honored to be selected to speak at the 4th Cornell DrupalCamp at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.

Aaron Froehlich joined me to speak on how his team uses DevShop at the Cornell ILR School.

Aaron's been using DevShop since the 0.x days to fire up copies of his website for different git branches, making it easy to review his team's work.

UPDATE: Slides and Video of the session are now available.

Every time there is a big DrupalCamp or Con we submit sessions thinking we will talk about our open source hosting and testing platform, DevShop. The specific theme for each talk usually aligns with whatever the latest features are, or is just a general (boring) overview of the features.

PHOTO: Founding members Mathieu Lutfy, Jon Pugh, Christopher Gervais, and Cameron Eagans.  Credit: Chris Doten, NDI.

Last week, thousands of open source developers and enthusiasts converged on the United Nations Headquarters for the first annual OpenCamps conference.

In the last few days We've been able to get Aegir working in a docker container.

See http://github.com/aegir-project/dockerfiles for the code and https://hub.docker.com/r/aegir/hostmaster/ for the images.  There are example docker-compose.yml file in the codebase that you can use to launch aegir really quickly.

We are excited to announce that OpenDevShop Inc is a Gold Sponsor of DrupalGovCon 2016! As a part of our sponsorship we are offering a free training on Friday July 22nd.

Please Sign up Now, space is limited!

We are going to cover every aspect of DevShop, from installation to testing and cloud management.