Introducing the Drupal 8
Configuration System
BADCamp October 23, 2015
Matthew Tift and Alex Pott
Configuration Management:
What is it?
Configuration Management
Quality
Identify Problems
Coordination
Code Management
Metadata
Consistency
Repeatability
Control
Verification
Documentation
DEV ➞ PROD
Configuration Management
Process
for establishing and maintaining consistency
Configuration
in Drupal 8
Configuration:
Types of Things
Configuration:
Views
Content Types
Image Styles
Forms
Settings
User Roles
Content:
Things
Content:
Article
Basic Page
Menu
User
Taxonomy
Site Builder
vs
Site Editor
Simple
Configuration
vs
Configuration Entities
Simple
Configuration:
Exactly one copy or version
Configuration Entity:
Creates zero or more items
Credit: Gábor Hojtsy
Simple Configuration
↕
Configuration Entity
↕
Content Entity
Configuration:
Benefits
Benefit:
Eliminated 50 database tables
Benefit:
Reduced need for Features and Strongarm
Benefit:
Translatable
Three Items
Two Translatable
Benefit:
Swappable
Benefit:
API for Developers
Migrate in Core
Includes Configuration
How Does
This Work?
Configuration Life Cycle
files ➞ database ➞ files
(default)
JPEG Quality
admin/config/media/image-toolkit
File
core/modules/system/config/install/system.image.gd.yml
Database
File
system.image.gd.yml
Yeah, about those files...
Why the Database?
More secure
Why the Database?
Faster
Why the Database?
Can't hack
active config
Why the Database?
Fewer config files
Why the Database?
Database contains "everything"
Love Files?
Configuration Development Module
files ➞ "files" ➞ files
Drupal 7 Configuration
files ➞ database ➞ ?
File
system/image.gd.inc (Drupal 7)
Recall D8
Database
User Interface
admin/config/media/image-toolkit
Now What?
Consistent?
Repeatable?
Quality?
Identify Problems?
Coordinated?
Metadata?
Configuration Life Cycle
files ➞ database ➞ files
(default)
Other
Drupal 8 Data
Cron last run
Config? Content?
Other D8 Data
State System
Other D8 Data
Session Management
Configuration:
How do I use it?
Configuration Manager Module
Configuration Management Section
Synchronize Changes
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