VALKYRIE

Valkyrie is an opinionated development stack that makes features/git based Drupal development easy.

Features

• Everything is wrapped up neatly in a VM. This keeps your computer tidy and Valkyrie consistent across various machines.
• Folders in the VM are mounted on your computer via NFS to make developing with your favorite editor easy (we like Vim).
• Automatic domain resolution using Avahi. Each site you create on Valkyrie will get an automatically resolving domain name which keeps you from needing to hack your /etc/hosts file.
• Drush extensions to make all kinds of common development tasks easy.
• Automatic Drush aliases for running commands against sites inside the VM.

Prerequisites

We've tested this on OS X (requires 10.10.4 or higher) and Debian GNU/Linux. You'll need to have the following:

• VirtualBox
• Vagrant
• Drush 7.0-dev
• NFS

The latest versions of all of the above are recommended. To install Drush on OS X, we recommend using Homebrew. You'll need to install the HEAD version of Drush: brew install drush --HEAD.

NFS comes pre-installed on OS-X. Install the nfs-kernel-server and nfs-common packages on Debian and derivatives, like Ubuntu Linux.

Documentation

• Installation
• Usage
• Testing

Installation

Make sure you have a .drush folder in your home diretory. If you don't, run the drush command and it should create one.

To install Valkyrie from source, clone the repo inside ~/.drush like so:

git clone https://github.com/GetValkyrie/valkyrie.git ~/.drush/valkyrie --recursive

Then clear your drush cache:

drush cc drush

Usage

Valkyrie provides a number of Drush commands, which are well documented within Drush itself. Run the following to review these commands:

drush help --filter=valkyrie

Creating a project

To begin using Valkyrie you'll need to create a project. A project is a VM provisioned with the entire dev stack. You really only need one project since it will be running Aegir which supports multiple platforms/sites.

To create a project run drush vnew [name]. We usually name our project "valkyrie" since we only need one drush vnew valkyrie. This will create a folder named "valkyrie" in the current working directory and will spin up and provision a VM. This will take a while so go grab a coffee/beer.

During the provisioning process you should see a couple red notices. One is an SSH key for the VM in case you need to add it as a deploy key to private repos. The other is a login link for accessing Aegir.

Help

• If Hosting Queue not running

  • drush @vm cc drush; drush @v hosting-dispatch

• If frontend does not generate properly

  • drush @v provision-verify

Upcoming Features

• Platform management
• ??? - Request additional features in a PR. Even better, implement it in PR as well :)

Free Software

We are firm proponents of Free Software. Valkyrie only exists because of the ongoing efforts of many other projects including: Aegir, Drupal, Drush, Git, GNU/Linux, Ansible, Vagrant and VirtualBox.