Manage Deployments with Install Profiles and Git
- 2. Managing Deployments with Git and Install Profiles Managing Code, Content, and Configurations Across Multiple Environments …Part Deux
- 3. Nick Hepner •Building web sites since 1998 Building Drupal sites since 2006 “Large Scale” Drupal since 2009 •Drupal Specialist Data Migrations Enterprise Scalability Configuration Management •Director Unallocated Space
- 4. Why am I here? •Standard Deployment Model •Code, Content, Configuration and their workflows •Using Install Profiles for configuration management •Deploying your code with Git
- 5. Standard Deployment Model Content Staging Developme nt Staging Producti on Local
- 6. Configuration •Consists of Drupal admin and module settings. •Exportable site structures Content Types Contexts Image Styles •User Roles and Permissions •Configuration workflow begins on the development side of the model. New modules installed Existing modules configured
- 8. Content •User generated content •User registration and accounts •Content workflow begins on the production server User registrations User generated content Nodes Entities Files and uploads Content management workflows. Commerce General site and user administration
- 10. Conflicts •Servers no longer syncronized Developers begin working and testing on different setups “Where is the most recent copy of the database?” •Data is at risk to be overwritten •Forces many manual, time consuming updates •Most recent/accurate data set difficult to keep track of
- 11. Code •Code can be versioned for easy deployment and management (Git, SVN) •Does not conflict with database changes. •Does not include database stored code. •Follows same workflow as configuration – originates from development side of model.
- 12. Exportables •Building web sites since 1998 Building Drupal sites since 2006 “Large Scale” Drupal since 2009 •Drupal Specialist Data Migrations Enterprise Scalability Configuration Management •Director Unallocated Space •World famous drinking buddy.
- 13. Install Profiles •Used to package re-usable functionality •Preconfigured Drupal distributions Commerce Kickstart OpenAtrium OpenPublish OpenPublic Commons •Provides convenient wrapper to store global setup and configuration tasks.
- 14. Exportables •Use Features and Ctools to export your configurations into code. This removes configurations from the configurations workflow, and places them into the code workflow with no database conflicts. Content types and fields Views Contexts Deltas/Panels •The more things you can export now, the more time you will save later.
- 15. Profile Setup Use your .info file to set any modules or features as requirements. This will automatically enable them, which is useful for especially useful for features. In the .profile file, use the hook_form_install_configure_form_alter() to change the profile setup form if necessary. The magic happens in the .install file!!
- 16. Profile Install Files Use hook_install() can be used to set up initial configurations. This will run the FIRST time the site is installed. Use hook_update_N() to provide any later configurations. Don't overwrite scripts in previous code – create an update hook with a higher version number.
- 18. Deployment When deploying an update, use drush updb to run your update hooks Can automate deploying git pushes using Jenkins
- 19. DevelGenerate Use devel generate's functions to automate test data. devel_generate_word() devel_create_greeking() devel_create_para() Should be used to replace need for actual data. Great for PII, PHI and high security sites. Can still facilitate distributed develpoment.
- 20. Advantages Very easy to test deployments to any environment. Site rebuilds exactly the same way, every time, for all developers Can manage configuration changes in Git. No more question about the most recent data set. Easier to project manage
- 21. The Future Drupal 8 will use YAML to manage configurations. Configurations will be exported into A lot of “one-touch” deployment features and setup. D7 and D6 sites will still require maintenance.