Satellites are websites deployed from master site. A satellite can also interact with master.

Deploy a new satellite

A satellite is configured and deployed from the backoffice. For safety reason, it will be possible (in the future) to deployed site through a CLI tool like drush or drupal console.

Go to /admin/config/services/webfactory/satellite_entity and create a new website :

• Label and machine name identify the website
• Host is the URL which serve the new site
• Mail is the site contact mail
• The site name
• Theorically you can deploy any profiles, but only profile with webfactory_slave as dependency will be able to interact with master
• You can choose a default theme
• As it is a native feature in D8, you can deploy a site with any language
• Choose what channel is available for this website

Save it! For now your website is not deploy. To do it, you click on deploy and fill in the deploy form :

Deploy form contains all technical informations to create the database and launch the install process in the good condition. Note that these informations are juste temporaly stored until the deployement has finished.

Then deploy process can take times (like the common install process). For now, there is an install status indicator :

When the site is ready, you can access it directly :