This presentation was from CMS Philly on May 1, 2020. The presentation is available on the CMS Philly website: https://cmsphilly.org/talks/how-i-am-migrating-jeffgeerlingcom-drupal-7-drupal-8 And you can view all the episodes of the 'Migrating JeffGeerling.com from Drupal 7 to 8 LIVE stream' series here: https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2020/migrating-jeffgeerlingcom-drupal-7-drupal-8-how-video-series

1. Jeff Geerling (@geerlingguy) at - May 1, 2020
How I am migrating
JeffGeerling.com
from Drupal 7 to 8
"It'll be easy," they said.

2. Hello, I'm Jeff Geerling
(a.k.a. geerlingguy)

3. "It'll be easy," they said.

4. Narrator: It was not easy.
"It'll be easy," they said.

5. Day 1
"We'll do it live!"
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vu2NK5REvWM

6. Day 1
"We'll do it live!"
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vu2NK5REvWM

7. Day 98
"We'll be done soon, I promise!"

8. Day 98
"We'll be done soon, I promise!"

9. A Little History
• c. 2004: Thingamablog
• c. 2009: Drupal 6
• c. 2011: Drupal 7 (migrated)
• c. 2018: Dark mode redesign
• 2020: Migrating to Drupal 8!

10. A Little History
• c. 2004: Thingamablog
• c. 2009: Drupal 6
• c. 2011: Drupal 7 (migrated)
• c. 2018: Dark mode redesign
• 2020: Migrating to Drupal 8!

11. A Little History
• c. 2004: Thingamablog
• c. 2009: Drupal 6
• c. 2011: Drupal 7 (migrated)
• c. 2018: Dark mode redesign
• 2020: Migrating to Drupal 8!

12. A Little History
• c. 2004: Thingamablog
• c. 2009: Drupal 6
• c. 2011: Drupal 7 (migrated)
• c. 2018: Dark mode redesign
• 2020: Migrating to Drupal 8!

13. A Little History
• c. 2004: Thingamablog
• c. 2009: Drupal 6
• c. 2011: Drupal 7 (migrated)
• c. 2018: Dark mode redesign
• 2020: Migrating to Drupal 8!

14. Migration Goals
• Preserve all content
• 'Lift and shift' (limit scope creep, no redesign!)
• Preserve all URLs, redirects, SEO optimizations
• Be able to reinstall site at any point during the migration
• Use modern goodies like:
• GitHub Actions for CI
• Composer

15. Total time:
98 days (abs) ≈ 30 hours

16. Total time:
98 days (abs) ≈ 30 hours
(so far...)

17. Highlights

18. Configuration Management made
re-installation and changes easy.
1

19. migrate-upgrade mostly did
everything as if by magic.
2

20. Almost all my D7 modules were
available in D8.
3

21. Almost all my D7 modules were
available in D8.
3
(let the "Upgrade Status" module help!)

23. Site building in D8 is SO much
better.
4

24. Claro admin theme rocks.
5

26. Disappointments

27. migrate-upgrade mostly did
everything as if by magic.
1

28. migrate-upgrade mostly did
everything as if by magic.
1

29. Many migration issues are hard to
debug.
2

32. Theme upgrade is practically a
rewrite.
3

33. Theme upgrade is practically a
rewrite.
3
(but Twig is awesome!)

34. Local development environments
are still not easy.
4

35. Local development environments
are still not easy.
4
(I say that as the maintainer of Drupal VM)

36. Where am I today?

39. How can I follow along?

40. Learn from my mistakes!
4
jeffgeerling.com/d8-migrate

41. Learn from my mistakes!
4
jeffgeerling.com/d8-migrate
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(and follow me on Twitter/Insta: @geerlingguy)