Drupal deployment, Git. Drush, and Features module.

1. Drupal Developers Day
Microsoft Philippines
6750 Ayala Avenue, Makati City
10-27-2012

2. Automating Drupal
Deployment
Version Control + Drush + Features
Gerald Z. Villorente
Kite Systems Ltd. | CNN Travel

3. Who am I
* Opensource advocate for 4 years
* Drupal user since 2010 (developer/themer)
* System administrator
* Developer at Kite Systems Ltd.

4. Deployment

5. Typical Environment

6. Deployment Mistakes

7. Manual Configuration

8. Production Dev Server
Staging Server Local Dev

9. Version Control
“is any practice that tracks and provides control
over changes to source code”
– From Wikipedia

10. Internal Server Error
404 Not Found
409 Conflict
Out of Resources Gateway
Timeout
Bad Request
PDO Error
403 Forbidden
Syntax Error
Invalid Operand
Types Access Denied

11. Version Control (Git, SVN, CVS)

12. How version control works?

13. Ok version control rocks,
but how about the
configuration changes that
I need to deploy?

14. Features module – the
answer to your question!
“The features module enables the capture and
management of features in Drupal.”

15. Alright that's (Features)
really awesome! But what if
there is any other features
of Drupal that Features
doesnt support?

16. Easy boy! We still have an
option.
hook_update_N( )

17. Tools you need
+ SSH

18. Avoid repetitive task
Use shell script!

19. Note: You can use CI
server and put all your
shell script to run every
build

20. CI (Jenkins)

21. Remember!
* Development plan

22. Remember!
* Development plan
* Test plan

23. Remember!
* Development plan
* Test plan
* Documentation

24. Remember!
Local

25. Remember!
Local
Dev

26. Remember!
Local
Dev
Staging

27. Remember!
Local
Dev
Staging
Prod

28. Always
Test, test, test!

29. Questions?