Deploying Drupal 8

Hundreds of new Drupal sites are launched every day. This demonstrates how easy it is to deploy Drupal, right? That's like saying 8.5 million people fly everyday, so flying a plane is easy. Downloading a zip file, extracting it, FTPing a bunch of code to a shared hosting server isn't deployment!

During this session Dave will discuss the importance of planning deployment from the early stages of a project. Dave will highlight the key considerations when developing a deployment process for a site.  The session will cover some of the common tools that should be evaluated and some practical examples of how to incorporate them into a best practice deployment workflow.

There will be the occassional frustrated rant, a couple of sweeping generalisations and a war story or two.  Despite all this, by the end of the session attendees should have a good understanding of how to deploy a Drupal 8 site to production.

Dave Hall is the Managing Director of Dave Hall Consulting. When he isn't working with clients to build high quality web applications, he is helping them improve their infrastructure and business processes. In the last 6 years Dave has been responsible for building and launching over 2100 production Drupal sites and maintaining sites for companies including Pfizer, Insurance Australia Group, Al Jazeera and CNN. Let's just say he knows a thing or 2 about deployment.