Alberto G. Viu's slides from June 2016 Drupal Café about Drupal 8 Configuration Management features.

1. Drupal 8:
Configuration
Management
May 14th, 2016
Alberto at Drupal café

2. Configuration Or Content?
▪ Content Types?
▪ Nodes?
▪ Menu Items?
▪ Views?
▪ Taxonomy Terms
▪ Users?
▪ Image Styles?
▪ Comments?
▪ Settings?
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3. Idea
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4. Yaml
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5. Benefits
▪ Eliminated 50 database tables.
▪ Reduced need for Features and Strongarm
▪ Translatable
▪ Options for storing them:
▪ Under CVS (git)
▪ MongoDB
▪ API for developers
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6. What about Features?
- Still on Drupal 8
- Add semantic value to the solution...
- … which was the original idea
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7. Drush commands
▪ drush config-export
▪ Exports active configuration to the staging directory
▪ drush config-import
▪ Imports configuration from staging directory
▪ And more:
▪ config-edit
▪ config-get
▪ config-list
▪ config-pull
▪ config-set
drush help config-export
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8. That was all!!
Questions?