Cloud Driven Development: a better workflow, less worries, and more power
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The document discusses the advantages and workflow improvements provided by cloud-driven development for Drupal, emphasizing the benefits of Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) for web development. It outlines a typical development flow using tools like Drush and Pantheon, highlighting automation and efficiency in the deployment process. The author also touches on the future of Drupal development, including updates related to Drupal 8 and the potential for enhanced automation.
Cloud Driven Development: a better workflow, less worries, and more power
- 1. Cloud Driven Development a better workflow, less worries, and more power Peter Vanhee 20th October 2012 - DrupalCamp Spain
- 2. Who am I? ‣ Consumer and contributor to Drupal for over 6 years @pvhee ‣ Co-founder Marzee Labs @marzeelabs, a web shop from Barcelona ‣ http://marzeelabs.org
- 3. The Cloud “The cloud has given has us the ability to provide nearly limitless, on-demand resources to speed up our web development and deployment processes”
- 4. For me? Photo from Flickr by Abode of Chaos
- 5. The Cloud
- 7. Enter PaaS ‣ “Platform-as-a-service” ‣ Yet another service built on top of the cloud ‣ Provides a computing platform and a solution stack Source: Wikipedia
- 8. Know any?
- 10. In general, Drupal PaaS offer ‣ Different environments. Typically a development, staging and production environment ‣ Code repository, e.g. git ‣ On-demand resources ‣ Specialty services for search, caching, performance optimization, etc. ‣ A lot of automation of the tools you typically use (or want to) when building Drupal sites
- 11. More good stuff ‣ one-click installs of Drupal distributions ‣ they teach you awesome developer processes
- 12. Disadvantages? ‣ Difficult to break away from the standard setup ‣ Not always shell access - and shell in generally very limited ‣ Cannot install just anything
- 13. Cuts most of the deals
- 14. Enter Cloud Driven Development “Cloud Driven Development puts the fun back into your Drupal development and deployment”
- 15. Cloud Driven Development Model adev b test c live u local
- 16. Cloud Driven Development Model for your Team a dev u local u local
- 17. Cloud Driven Development Model with the Client b test c live Revise new features Work on content
- 18. Cloud Driven Development Model for Everyone Else c live
- 19. Cloud Driven Development Model t t a dev gn b test gn c live t gn u local t code moves from left to right g files and n database move from right to left
- 20. The Ingredients for Cloud DD Drush + “exportables”
- 21. Demo using Pantheon Free developer tier at http://getpantheon.com
- 22. Spinning up a new site
- 24. Go u local > git clone git@* drupalcamp_spain
- 25. At Marzee Labs we maintain our own Drupal distribution ‣ contains modules and sandboxes we always use ‣ has some features we always need ‣ has smart settings preconfigured mz/mz.make mz/mz.profile mz/mz.install mz/mz.info
- 26. Make our site > drush make --no-core profiles/mz/mz.make .
- 27. From u local to adev > git add -A . > git commit -m "Built site from MZ" > git push origin master
- 28. Install your site on adev
- 29. Install your site (2)
- 30. Pantheon Dashboard From http://getpantheon.com
- 31. A typical development flow ‣ pull the database from the dev/test/live environment * ‣ drush dl awesome_module ‣ configure and export ‣ enable the module, in our site feature * if you follow a real database-free development flow, you should do this only once at the beginning
- 32. First: get your drush aliases from ulocal to > drush @pantheon.dcspain.dev a dev > drush @pantheon.dcspain.test b test > drush @pantheon.dcspain.live c live
- 33. Deploy on adev > git push origin master > drush @pantheon.dcspain.dev updatedb > drush @pantheon.dcspain.dev fra > drush @pantheon.dcspain.dev cc all
- 34. Deploy on btest
- 35. Hello Pandarus ‣ A drupal sandbox* by wodenx ‣ For command-line freaks ‣ Deploy via command-line ‣ Syncronize databases and files * http://drupal.org/sandbox/wodenx/1512788 soon to be a full d.o. project
- 36. Deploy faster with Pandarus > drush pan-deploy test
- 37. Syncing database and files never was easier > drush rsync @pantheon.dcspain.dev:%files @self:%files > drush pan-sql-sync @pantheon.dcspain.dev @self
- 38. Pre-launch dev cycle t a dev gn b test t gn u local
- 39. Going Live t btest gn c live
- 40. Searching like a pro
- 41. Caching like a boss ‣ varnish / nginx - for anonymous users ‣ redis - for authenticated users
- 42. Scale! From http://getpantheon.com
- 43. Site Profiling
- 44. Ou Yeah.. there is more ‣ Drupal core updates ‣ On-server development - hot fixes directly on the server
- 45. Things to look out for ‣ Drupal 8 and the CMI: will make exportables much better (think: bye-bye Features) ‣ More command-line magic ‣ More automation ‣ Cloud Driven Development: the future for Drupal?