Configuration Management, Composer, Git and Drush in Drupal 8

Don't watch this video!

The video quality of the live demo was terrible!

I'm going to be releasing a much higher quality, and in-depth series on this topic in the coming weeks on ModulesUnraveled.com.

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Thanks for your interest in the session!

 

Outline

This is a session all about the advanced site-building tools and techniques available to Drupal 8 site-builders.

This session will cover Composer, Drush, Git, Configuration Management and how they all work together to make Drupal 8 site development and management process faster, more efficient, and less error prone.

Install Drupal 8 with Composer

Commiting with Git Using Composer to Manage Project Dependencies

• Finding Packages on packagist.drupal-composer.org
• Install, Uninstall and Update Modules/Themes/etc. with Composer
•  Installing a Package From a Git Repository
• How to Decide Which Version Pattern to Use

Overriding Settings in Code with settings.local.php

• Create settings.local.php
• Enable settings.local.php
• Where to Find Configuration Settings That Can Be Overridden
• Commit settings.php, but not settings.local.php

Configuration Management Through the UI and with Drush

• Workaround For Sites That Were Installed Without Importing the Database
• Syncing Configuration Through the UI
  • Exporting Configuration
  • Importing Configuration
• Syncing Configuration Using Drush
  • Exporting Configuration
  • Importing Configuration

How to use Composer, Git, Drush and Configuration Management to Push Changes from Development to Production

• Managing Configuration with Git
  • Pushing Code and Configuration to the Repo
  • Pulling Code and Configuration to Another Site Instance
  • Import the Original Site's Database into the Production Environment
  • Composer Install the New Site
  • Make Sure the Files Directories are Correct
  • Importing Configuration

Putting it all Together

• Install a new module with Composer
• Install a new theme with Composer
• Enable Admin Toolbar and Admin Toolbar Extra Tools and Pathauto
• Change the temp path on our local site to "/tmp"
• Add a few blocks to various regions
• Save a Google Analytics account to configuration through the UI
• Override the GA account with an empty string on development
• Export the configuration with Drush
• Commit it to Git
• Push it to the remote repo
• Pull it to production
• Import the configuration to the production server
• And have an exact replica of our development configuration on our production server!