An early look at the devops considerations for hosting Drupal 8.

1. professional services for the web
consultancy design development hosting training support
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2. about me
Greg Harvey
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3. introduction
Last year we looked at hosting Drupal 8
It almost worked!
But:
No drush!
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4. :’-(
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5. what’s the stack?
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6. what’s the stack?
Debian “Squeeze” (6)
Percona 5.5.33
PHP 5.3.27 (from Dotdeb)
nginx 1.2.3 (from Code Enigma)
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7. installing
If you block install.php:
It has moved!
/core/install.php
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8. file system
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9. file system
Drupal 7
755 everything
Application only writes to sites/%site
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10. file system
Drupal 8
What about CMI?
By default it sits in ‘files’
What about VCS?
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11. file system
$config_directories = array(
CONFIG_ACTIVE_DIRECTORY => array(
'path' => '/some/directory/outside/webroot',
'absolute' => TRUE,
),
CONFIG_STAGING_DIRECTORY => array(
'path' => '/another/directory/outside/
webroot',
'absolute' => TRUE,
),
);
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12. file system
If you alter the path, also make sure the web server can
read and write from/to that path!
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13. file system
And deployment?
Keep ‘staging’ in Git
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14. .htaccess
Includes have moved to /core/includes/
New rewrite rules to push update and install requests to
new /core/ paths
Optional rules for additional security
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15. .htaccess
# Uncomment the following two lines to only
# allow PHP files in the webroot and in "/core":
# RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/core/[^/]*.php$
# RewriteRule "^.+/.*.php$" - [F]
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16. .htaccess
Also, TXT files!
All moved to /core/
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17. drush
What works?
Pretty much everything!
drush si
drush cc
drush uli
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18. drush
What’s new?
CMI
config-edit (cedit)
config-export (cex)
config-get (cget)
config-import (cim)
config-list (cli)
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19. drush
And deployment?
These new drush commands for CMI are important!
drush cmi <- importing ‘staging’ config to ‘active’
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20. caching
APC
memcache - Drupal 8 version already BUT:
https://drupal.org/node/2056373
Can’t work fully until it support cache tags
No Redis movement to date
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21. databases
Nothing much changes
But EVERYTHING changes
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22. databases
NoSQL arrives!
http://www.mongodb.com/presentations/webinarmongodb-and-drupal-8-life-without-sql
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23. PHP version
We’re running PHP 5.3
What about PHP 5.4 and 5.5?
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24. PHP version
No question they’re quicker:
http://blog.asmallorange.com/2013/08/php-roadmapperformance/
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25. PHP version
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26. PHP version
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27. PHP version
So why not?
Breaks Drupal 6.
Probably breaks Drupal 7 contrib too.
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28. does it work?!
YES!
Of course it’s not ready, but you can play.
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29. performance
A lot to do:
https://drupal.org/node/1744302
But almost there!
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30. performance
So please take the next slide with a large pinch of salt:
DRUPAL 8 IS NOT READY FOR
PERFORMANCE TESTING
https://twitter.com/catch56/status/
392295581583802368
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31. performance
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32. questions?
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