Configuration Management for Site Builders

You just finished building that big feature for your perfectionist client. After a three-month long sprint going back and forth on nitty gritty details, you show them your finished work in Dev. And what do you know – they’re ready to take it LIVE!

Moving the code is easy since you’re using Git, but what will you do about all of that trixy configuration?

In this session we’re going to be talking about the woes of managing configuration changes, how Drupal 7 coped, and how Drupal 8 has finally saved the day. Before we go, we'll discuss timesaving techniques for managing this workflow from the command line using Drush and demonstrate how you can completely automate the deployment of your config on a free Pantheon environment.

Learn how to:

• Apply practical workflows to your everyday sitebuilding process.
• Pull configuration out of the database and into version control.
• Deploy configuration to Live in the UI and from the command line.
• Automate configuration imports in each of your environments.
• Bring it all together and improve your team development workflow.

This session is perfect for:

• Anyone tired of making the same changes in every environment.
• Developers who want to push config alongside code.
• Your colleagues who keep overwriting your changes. ;-)