Provision

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Provision is the backend of the Ægir Hosting System — the suite of Drush commands that does the system-level work: writing web-server and PHP configuration, creating and managing databases, and running the backups, restores, clones, migrations and upgrades behind every task the Ægir control panel fires. Explore Ægir's other components with the links above.

The Future of Ægir 3 is Bryght — and shipping: BOA-5.88.8
Announcement from Omega8.cc

Omega8.cc is the lead developer team for Ægir 3 on the BOA stack (Barracuda-Octopus-Ægir) — and we remain thankful to all past contributors who brought Ægir to life: your work makes today's progress possible. The July 2026 Continuity Edition release (BOA-5.88.8) brings 422 commits across six repositories, with every headline feature in both the free LTS and the commercial PRO editions:

• Modern compatibility: Drupal 11 and PHP 8.5 fully supported on the BOA stack, alongside every generation back to Drupal 6.
• Backdrop CMS: now a first-class citizen on BOA — including a Drupal 6 → 7 → Backdrop upgrade chain that runs as ordinary Ægir tasks.
• Migration delivered: the new aegir2boa toolset imports entire classic Ægir servers (Apache or Nginx) into BOA, with revert paths at every step.
• Development continues on GitHub: github.com/omega8cc/boa — while we keep using the Drupal.org issue queues, so the community effort continues here too and improvements can be systematically backported.

Documentation now lives at docs.boa.io and every release is announced at omega8.cc/news (RSS available). Read the full BOA-5.88.8 release notes.

Ægir is still very much alive, and together we can keep its Bryght Future shining!

Ægir is a mature, self-hosted hosting system built on Drupal itself, made to manage a large number of Drupal sites from one control panel. To deploy a new site you simply create a new Site node; to back up, migrate or upgrade sites, you manage your site nodes as you would any other node.

For install instructions, see the INSTALL.txt provided in the distribution; for the actively maintained BOA-based stack, see docs.boa.io/self-hosting.

Credits

Over the years, Ægir development was sponsored by Development Seed, Bryght, Raincity Studios and partners, alongside the individual maintainers. Today it is developed and maintained by Omega8.cc.