Enterprise Level Drupal: Drush make, composer and automated workflows
8ballsteve
Drupal has been well adopted by big business so it’s no surprise that enterprise project requirements have had a huge influence on Drupal’s feature roadmap over the years. Big business brings big expectations and the importance of a solid, reliable workflow are more key than ever.
Many modern enterprise level Drupal projects follow a distribution approach to leverage a single codebase driving multiple sites. Utilising make files to create platforms and install profiles is a great way to approach this and is well supported by the Drupal community and many specialist hosting providers.
There’s no better time to adopt a robust workflow that enforces best practice and allows for a greater level of automation.
In this session we’ll cover:
- Using drush make files
- Applying patches
- Chaining make files
- Composer vs Drush make
- Applying patches through composer
- External dependency mitigation
- Automating everything!
- How, where and when...