Configuration Management for Developers in Drupal 8
DrupalCon New Orleans May 10, 2016
Matthew Tift and Alex Pott
Configuration System
What it is
Benefits
How it works
Continuous integration
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
Other
Drupal 8 Data
Cron last run
Config? Content?
Other D8 Data
State System
Other D8 Data
Session Management
Configuration:
Benefits
Benefit:
Eliminated 50 database tables
Benefit:
API for Developers
Benefit:
Reduced need for Features and Strongarm
Benefit:
Translatable
Three Items
Two Translatable
Benefit:
Swappable
Benefit:
Sites Own Configuration
How Does
This Work?
Configuration Life Cycle
Modules/UI ➞ Database ➞ Files
Module File
core/modules/system/config/install/system.image.gd.yml
JPEG Quality
admin/config/media/image-toolkit
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?
Database contains "everything"
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:
How do I use it?
Clone Your Site
You can only synchronize configuration between cloned instances of a site
Configuration Manager Module
Configuration Management Section
Synchronize Changes
View Differences
Developing Modules with Configuration
Module Configuration
config/install
Module Configuration
config/optional
Module Configuration
config/schema
Continuous Integration
Demo
Tell us what
you think!
https://events.drupal.org/neworleans2016/sessions/configuration-management-developers-drupal-8
Presentation and slides are Copyright © 2016 Matthew Tift, and are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International License.