Standardizing Drupal Development Environments using Containers
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The document discusses the issues with current Drupal development environments, highlighting limitations with Windows-based setups like WAMP and the lack of performance monitoring and automation. It proposes using containerized environments, specifically Docker and Docksal, for faster deployment and better integration with Drupal services. Docksal simplifies Docker usage and offers essential tools out of the box, facilitating quicker setup and enhancing development efficiency.
Standardizing Drupal Development Environments using Containers
- 1. STANDARDIZING DRUPAL DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENTS Using Containers JUNE/2017Innovation center, Washington, D.C.
- 2. PAIN POINTS WITH CURRENT DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENTS 1This document is confidential and intended solely for the client to whom it is addressed. The Windows Conundrum Initial development environments were created in Windows Workspaces using WAMP Speed / responsiveness within workspaces is limited Sometimes difficult to replicate problems happening in the Linux Environment No access to non-Drupal Services Varnish SOLR Bash / Shell scripting Difficult to implement automation as well as checks and balances Performance monitoring is non-existent There are zero automated tests currently Bugs can quickly slip through the cracks unnoticed over time
- 3. WHAT ARE THE ALTERNATIVES? 2This document is confidential and intended solely for the client to whom it is addressed. Native Supported OS Virtualized Native Supported OS Containerized Environments
- 4. MY DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENT JOURNEY 3This document is confidential and intended solely for the client to whom it is addressed. Scotchbox is basic & easy to setup! No-frills LAMP stack Easy to setup Bash Configurations Better than WAMP, MAMP, etc. Drupal Environment in 10 Minutes Offers more Drupal Goodness Varnish, SOLR out of the Box Ansible Support Highly supported via the Drupal Community Can be more complex to setup Easy to setup on individual projects YAML based configuration Lots of Drupal supported services It’s Docker! Fast development environment
- 5. DOCKER VS VAGRANT 4This document is confidential and intended solely for the client to whom it is addressed. Source: https://www.docker.com/what-docker Containers are isolated, but share OS and, where appropriate, bins, libraries. The result is significantly faster deployment, much less overhead, easier migration, faster restart. https://insights.sei.cmu.edu/devops/2015/01/devops- and-docker.html
- 7. DOCKSAL 6This document is confidential and intended solely for the client to whom it is addressed. Docker is difficult to learn. Docksal makes it easy! Docksal abstracts much of the Docker services into a simple command called ‘fin’ Comes ‘out of the box’ with SOLR, Varnish, Behat, Blackfire, Xdebug, Ngrok, Drush, Drupal Console and more! One line install command Zero configuration for basic LAMP stack with Varnish Project based – Run $ fin up within any project structure The .docksal directory can be published to VCS in order to distribute baseline configuration for the development team Geared towards the Drupal Community and is Open Source! http://docksal.readthedocs.io/
- 8. BUILT-IN HELPFUL SERVICES 7This document is confidential and intended solely for the client to whom it is addressed. Behavior Driven Development Write human-readable stories that describe the behavior of your application Tests can be run locally or via automated jobs in CI tools such as Jenkins http://docs.behat.org/en/v2.5/quick_intro.html A multiplatform tunnelling, reverse proxy software that establishes secure tunnels from a public endpoint such as internet to a locally running network service while capturing all traffic for detailed inspection and replay In otherwords, I can share my local development instance (with restrictions) with anyone! Control and test SOLR locally Version control configurations such as ’best bets’ and perform local indexing Direct integration (No Configuration) through SOLR service and Drupal Apache container
- 9. THE DREADED $ PROMPT FOR WINDOWS USERS 8This document is confidential and intended solely for the client to whom it is addressed. Compiled Linux Libraries for Windows Cygwin Babun (babun.github.io) + Compatibility with many Linux applications and processes - Unable to run unmodified Linux binaries Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) Layer of the Windows kernel to provide compatibility with the Linux kernel Enables Windows developers to run tools and projects dependend on Linux binaries + Packaged for Windows 10 and actively supported by Microsoft - Back end services (such as Docker) have compatibility issues
- 10. PROVISION DRUPAL IN 60ISH SECONDS 9This document is confidential and intended solely for the client to whom it is addressed. Step 1 Step 2 Step 3 Step 4 Step 5 Download Drupal and extract into a folder called docroot Run $ fin up Browse to your new site at http://projectname.docksal/ Create a .docksal directory in the project directory Enter Database / Settings information
- 11. DEMO TIME 10This document is confidential and intended solely for the client to whom it is addressed.
- 12. THANK YOU FOR LISTENING 11This document is confidential and intended solely for the client to whom it is addressed. Comments? Questions?