Deploying Drupal

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 from the early stages of the project.  He will then cover the deploying the 3 pillars of Drupal code, content and configuration and how to avoid having your deployments turn into throwing rainbow icecream around.  The session will progress from high level concepts around deployments to practical advice for handling common scenarios when deploying Drupal 8 (and 7) sites.

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 make their Drupal sites easier to deploy 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.