One of the more complex problems in managing large Drupal projects is keeping development, staging and production environments in sync. As projects grow in complexity including multiple developers and more features it becomes ever more important to have a reliable, repeatable process for deploying new functionality to the production website. In this webinar we'll cover: - Using version control for your Drupal project - Migrating your code, files and database between sites - Providing developers environments for effective development - Setting up sites for repeatable testing and deployment

1. Client Advisor Series
Drupal Staging and Deployment Best Practices
Joshua Brauer Bryan House
Drupalist - Client Advisor Team Sr. Director, Marketing
Acquia Acquia
@jbrauer @bryanhouse

2. Upcoming Events
Cities Companies Speaking
– New York City, November 9th – New York Stock Exchange
– Washington DC, November 18th – tmg-emedia (Time Out)
– Chicago, November 30th – New York State Senate
– San Francisco, December 2nd – The 451 Group
– Gilbane Group
– VML
Target Audience
– Taunton Press
– Senior IT & Marketing
– Zagat Survey
professionals
– Examiner.com
Register at: http://revolution2010.acquia.com/

3. Introduction
Joshua Brauer
–Drupalist on the Acquia Client Advisor Team

4. Development
workflows
Thursday, October 28, 2010

5. Awesome Drupal
Thursday, October 28, 2010

6. There are other
places to be...
Thursday, October 28, 2010

7. Awesome Drupal
+
Vacations
Thursday, October 28, 2010

8. Deployment Goals
Thursday, October 28, 2010

9. Reliable
Thursday, October 28, 2010

10. Repeatable
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11. Efficient
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12. Durable
Thursday, October 28, 2010

13. Location Agnostic
Thursday, October 28, 2010

14. Scalable
Thursday, October 28, 2010

15. Secure
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Thursday, October 28, 2010

16. Development Teams
Thursday, October 28, 2010

17. Solo developers
Thursday, October 28, 2010

18. Small Teams
Thursday, October 28, 2010

19. Large Teams
Thursday, October 28, 2010

20. What sites are made of
Content Uploaded Files
Configuration
Code
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29. Journey from Dev to Prod
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30. Moving Content
Thursday, October 28, 2010

31. Moving code and
configuration
Thursday, October 28, 2010

32. Database-sync
Thursday, October 28, 2010

33. Easy to setup
Thursday, October 28, 2010

34. Local Server
Computer
DB DB
Code Code
Files Files
Thursday, October 28, 2010

35. Local Server
Computer
DB DB
Code Code
Files Files
Thursday, October 28, 2010

36. Works fine for
• Small sites with isolated
content updates
• Single site-builder
• Sorry there is no #3
Thursday, October 28, 2010

37. There’s a module for that
Thursday, October 28, 2010

38. What are Databases
good at?
Thursday, October 28, 2010

39. Storing Data
Thursday, October 28, 2010

40. Querying data
Thursday, October 28, 2010

41. Returning Data
Thursday, October 28, 2010

42. Not Merging and
Versioning
Thursday, October 28, 2010

43. Manage sites in code
Thursday, October 28, 2010

44. Tools
Thursday, October 28, 2010

45. Version Control
Thursday, October 28, 2010

46. Local Stack
Thursday, October 28, 2010

47. Local Stack
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48. Testing tools
Thursday, October 28, 2010

49. Deployment tools
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51. Manage sites in code
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67. Scrub the database
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70. Configuration in Code
Thursday, October 28, 2010

71. hook_update()
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74. There’s a module for that
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75. There are modules for that
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76. Strongarm
Thursday, October 28, 2010

77. Features
Thursday, October 28, 2010

78. Ctools
Thursday, October 28, 2010

79. ...and more
Thursday, October 28, 2010

80. Database Code
Reliable sometimes yes
Repeatable tricky yes
Efficient small sites yes
Durable no yes
Location no yes
Scalable no yes
Secure no possible
Thursday, October 28, 2010

81. Drupal 8 and beyond
Thursday, October 28, 2010

82. Questions
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