Hostmaster 2 - Flexible, Extensible, Scriptable Pure Drupal Provisioning and Instance management

SESSION OVERVIEW
An introduction to the the Hostmaster 2 instance management framework. Hostmaster was originally developed by Bryght (now Raincity Studios) to manage the hosted service available at bryght.com. Hostmaster 2 is a completely redesigned iteration of the system, written with a purely Drupal based approach.

AGENDA
* Overview.
* Demonstration of system.
* The magic of the command line - Drush in all its many-splendored glory.
* Front End and Back End - more in depth information on Hosting and Provisioning frameworks.
* Distributed instance management? What does that mean?
* Extending Hostmaster - Anatomy of a simple Hostmaster extension.
* Additional features.

GOALS
An understanding of some of the difficulties that crop up when managing hundreds or thousands of sites (you thought upgrading one site to a new drupal release was a lot of work?), and a deeper understanding of why tools such as Hostmaster are needed once you reach a certain threshold of sites.