Multiserver feature for BOA satellite user?

The "Add server" feature is available in every Octopus instance - you just need to log in with root user (uid=1) instead of extra admin user, so you can see the admin menu with all features/options available.

For sites migration between Hostmaster instances (it doesn't matter if created by Barracuda or Octopus) you can use brilliant modules:

http://drupal.org/project/remote_import
http://drupal.org/project/hosting_remote_import

We will add both of them to BOA by default in the next release (this weekend).

Note that this new stuff allows for really easy migration only between remote Hostmasters, because Aegir expects both source and target system to use the same Aegir (system) user, while Octopus instances on the same server have all different users (and none of them have 'aegir' as a system user, obviously). I hope we will be able to modify this Aegir default logic and make it possible also to migrate sites between Octopus instances on the same machine - however it is also rather simple to do that manually in a few easy steps, anyway, just move their directories between Octopus instances - or Barracuda instance - and chmod them to use the new instance system user - so o1->o2 etc. Then re-verify new target platform, remove vhost on the old instance, re-verify discovered site and clear all caches - done. But it would be nice to be able to use the same workflow which is now fully possible (and tested by us in production already) between remote servers when their Aegir system users are the same (so aegir->aegir or o1->o1 etc.)

Oh, and thanks for all good wishes and nice words! Thank you!

BOA will do that for you (SSH keys etc.) at least where it has an access, plus there will be a simple how-to included, very similar to standard docs on c.a.o

BTW. this is not a minor issue! :)

Thanks!

For sites migration between Hostmaster instances (it doesn't matter if created by Barracuda or Octopus) you can use brilliant modules:

http://drupal.org/project/remote_import
http://drupal.org/project/hosting_remote_import

We will add both of them to BOA by default in the next release (this weekend).

I take it it's not in stable yet?

Not yet. New stable BOA-2.0.2 should be released today, but it is not guaranteed that it will include above modules, since security upgrades (plus some related tests) have higher priority.

You rock, thank you!

Oh, and while we are at this: http://twitter.com/omega8cc/status/166722282532782080

Issues introduced by 6.24 core are pretty serious, so we are still testing patches: http://drupal.org/drupal-7.12#known-issues

Of course we will not wait for 6.25 ;) Instead we will release BOA-2.0.2 even if there will be still some not critical or major issues, because we already delayed our running upgrades on all servers, so we also need this stuff released *now* (in hours). In the meantime we have greatly improved BOA caching logic, added new (but tested already) features and fixed even more issues than expected to get fixed before this release.

Stay tuned!

All these core updates that break things... It's a good thing I'm using Pressflow 6 (and still on 22 anyway).

By the way, trying to add remote import to BOA 2.0.1 produces errors, so I guess I'm gonna wait.

Modules and how-to for migration between remote Aegir instances is now in head: http://drupalcode.org/project/octopus.git/commit/1d4e65e

Awesome! When's the next stable release?

When ready, probably next weekend, as we are waiting for next Drupal 7 release (expected this Wednesday) to include it after some testing.

Apparently 7.14 has created some API related issues
http://engineeredweb.com/blog/drupal-7-14-api-incompatible-change/

Yeah, that is why we use 7.14.1 (our repo with patches for fixing post-release known issues), however it will not help with all possible and not yet discovered issues, so we plan to publish 7.14.2 etc when there will be new important patches but not yet 7.15 released.

BOA-2.0.3 has been released!

I can get the list of the sites, but not import them.

Running: /data/disk/o1/tools/drush/drush.php @server_servermyserver provision-remote_import --backend 2>&1
The external command could not be executed due to an application error.

Please open new issue.

corrected the Target BOA version to 2.0.1