Top 8 considerations for choosing a local development environment
johnkennedy
There has been a proliferation of local development environment options as the ubiquity of docker has removed much of the complexity of dependancies and performance problems. I will break down the top 8 considerations when choosing a framework, application or technology to enable local development and testing of Drupal:
- Architecture - To Docker or not to Docker
- Composer/DrupalConsole/Drush support
- Configurability of environments and tests
- Support for other languages
- Toolset vs application
- Open-Sourciness
- Implications of popularity
- Options for commercial support
I will take the audience through a detailed analysis of the importance of these considerations with real world Drupal examples and then a feature matrix of current solutions / approaches.
This will be particularly useful for technical leads wishing to standardise their team on a common local development environment to accelerate onboarding and improve code testing processes.
Session Track
DevOps
Experience Level
Intermediate
Drupal Version
When & Where
Time:
Tuesday, 10 April, 2018 - 10:45 to 11:45
Room:
201 | Platform.sh