Best Practices for Configuration Management.
There is a sigh of relief among developers with the introduction of Configuration Management in Drupal 8.
But just the introduction of Configuration Management help us all? The answer is No. In order to get the maximum benefit of CM, there are some best practices to be followed.
Session will start with the brief introduction of CM followed by purpose it serves in D8.
Above will be followed by the quick introduction of Features - Originally designed as a packaging module but used as deployment module on almost every D7 site.
Since everything is configuration in D8, we will have a look at the short demo which will demonstrate all the configurations that can be exported and what is best way to export them.
Key items of the session will be:
- Introduction to CM
- Features - a deployment module used in D7
- How CM manages to solve the purpose it is designed for
- Differences between Features and CM
- Best Practices to use CM
- Demo
Who should attend this:
Developers
Architects
Drupal enthusiasts and professionals
Prerequisites:
Familiarity with Site building, D7 preferably D8