1. Drupal distributions and
installation profiles
Andrei Jechiu
andrei.jechiu@gmail.com
http://wearepropeople.com

2. What are distributions?

3. What are distributions?
Distributions are full copies of Drupal that include Drupal
Core, along with additional software such as:
● themes
● modules
● libraries
● installation profiles.

4. Distribution types
● All-inclusive products: complete solutions for specialized
use cases.
● Quick-start tools: starting points for developers and site
builders.

5. Popular distributions

6. Drupal Commons

7. Drupal Commons

8. Commerce Kickstart

9. Commerce Kickstart
● Encourages Sales
● Simplifies administration
● Looks great on any device
● Accelerates development
● Bends to your will
● Opens the door to possibilities

10. Conference Organizing Distribution

11. Conference Organizing Distribution
● Session submission, voting and moderation
● Session schedule grid, Personalized attendee
schedules
● Easy event registration and attendee management
● Community features
● Easy sponsors management

12. Open Publish

13. Open Publish

14. Drupal Gardens

15. Drupal Gardens
The power of Drupal
is a click away
Choose from several
customizable themes
Build one site - duplicate
to your heart's content

16. Open Atrium

17. Open Atrium
Documents Events Discussions Multimedia Mobile
Optimized
Worktracker
Data Security Identity
Management
Activity Streams Workflow Notifications Tags &
Taxonomies
Learning
Tools
Social Tools Microsites Custom
Dashboard
Custom Look &
Feel
Tutorials &
Tours

18. When to use distributions?
Evaluating Drupal

19. When to use distributions?
Demoing Drupal

20. When to use distributions?
Learning Drupal

21. When to use distributions?
Quickly building
a site

22. Why build a distribution?
● Build multiple similar sites
● Giving back to the community
● Encouraging community involvment
with your project

23. Components
Drupal
Core
Contrib
Modules
and
Themes
Custom
Modules,
Themes
and
Features
Installati
on
Profile
Distribution

24. Distributions vs Installation profiles

25. Installation profiles
Installation profiles are like modules
● profilename.info
● profilename.install
● profilename.profile

26. Installation profiles
profilename.info

27. Installation profiles
profilename.install

28. Installation profiles
profilename.install

29. Installation profiles

30. Installation profiles utilities
Features Drush make

31. Features

32. Features

33. Features and Demo content
Export demo content with features and use it in
distributions
Modules:
● Features
● UUID
● UUID Features
● Strongarm

34. Drush and Drush Make
● Drush - a command line tool for Drupal
http://drush.ws/
● Drush Make - Drupal Distributions
Packaging Automation Tool

35. Simple Drush make
api = 2
core = 7.x
; specify which version of Drupal to download
projects[drupal][type] = core
projects[drupal][version] = 7.14
; now specify which modules and themes we want
projects[views][version] = 3.3
projects[references][version] = 2.0
projects[features][version] = 1.0-rc3
projects[omega][version] = 3.1 ; themes are just like modules
drush make distro.make

36. Select profile

37. Install demo content

38. Folder structure