Migrating to Drupal 8

In this session, we will talk about how to migrate your drupal and non-drupal sites to Drupal 8

A brief overview of the topics we will cover:

• Why migrate to Drupal 8
• Migration workflow
• Core migration module
• Contributed migration modules
• Planning your migration
• Executing migration with UI and Drush
• How to create custom migration pugin to support migration of custom/contrib module content & config.
• Brief overview on how you can migrate your non-drupal site to Drupal 8
• Testing your migration
• Known issues and how to deal with them

Why you should attend:

With Drupal 6 already reaching its End of Life, there are thousands of sites which needs to be migrated to d7 or d8. If you are a site owner, maintainer or a drupalshop who executes upgrades and migrations this is the best place to learn how to migrate to d8 and discuss the challenges involved.

Experience Level:

As we will be discussing from simple migration with UI to complex migrations with drush and custom migration plugins, this is suitable for all the developers from beginners to advanced. This session can also be beneficial for the business analysts and project managers as we will discuss what goes into planning a migration.

What do you learn from this session:

At the end of the sesssion, you will know what migration means and why you should consider migrating to d8. You will walk away with all the required knowledge to plan and execute a migration.