9. Configuration Management – Deploying in Drupal 8
by Chaz Chumley, Matt Glaman, Richard Jones, Nick Abbott
Drupal 8: Enterprise Web Development
- Drupal 8: Enterprise Web Development
- Table of Contents
- Drupal 8: Enterprise Web Development
- Credits
- Preface
- 1. Module 1
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Installation
- 3. Basic Concepts
- 4. Getting Started with the UI
- 5. Basic Content
- 6. Structure
- 7. Advanced Content
- 8. Configuration
- 9. Users and Access Control
- 10. Optional Features
- 11. Reports
- 12. Extending Drupal
- 13. Theming Drupal
- 14. Getting Support
- 2. Module 2
- 1. Up and Running with Drupal 8
- 2. The Content Authoring Experience
- 3. Displaying Content through Views
- 4. Extending Drupal
- 5. Frontend for the Win
- 6. Creating Forms with the Form API
- 7. Plug and Play with Plugins
- 8. Multilingual and Internationalization
- 9. Configuration Management – Deploying in Drupal 8
- 10. The Entity API
- 11. Off the Drupalicon Island
- 12. Web Services
- 13. The Drupal CLI
- 3. Module 3
- 1. Setting Up Our Development Environment
- 2. Theme Administration
- 3. Dissecting a Theme
- Setting up a local development environment
- Default themes versus custom themes
- Folder structure and naming conventions
- Managing configuration in Drupal 8
- Reviewing the new info.yml file
- The role of templates in Drupal
- Creating our first basic theme
- Introducing Twig
- Template variables
- The role of the theme file in Drupal
- Summary
- 4. Getting Started – Creating Themes
- 5. Prepping Our Project
- 6. Theming Our Homepage
- Creating our HTML wrapper
- Creating our homepage
- Implementing our Header Top region
- Implementing our Header region
- Adding a logo
- Enabling Site branding
- Printing our Header region
- Creating Block templates
- Implementing our search form block
- Placing our search form block
- Creating a search form block template
- Adding custom JavaScript
- Creating an input element template
- Working with menus
- Creating a menu template
- Creating System Menu block template
- Creating a sticky header
- Implementing our Headline Region
- Implementing our Before Content region
- Implementing the footer
- Summary
- 7. Theming Our Interior Page
- 8. Theming Our Blog Listing Page
- Reviewing the Blog Listing mockup
- Creating our blog listing
- Creating a Post Listing view
- Managing our Post Listing block
- Implementing our Node template
- Adding CSS classes to Twig
- Working with content variables
- Using the without filter
- Creating our post image slider
- Working with field templates
- Adding the Owl Carousel library
- Using Twig filters for dates
- Printing title and teaser
- Creating our post metadata
- Field templates and taxonomy
- Handling comments in Drupal 8
- Creating a theme file
- Creating a Categories block
- Managing our Categories block
- Implementing responsive sidebars
- Theming a Block template
- Drupal Views and Twig templates
- Managing popular versus recent content
- Adding the About Us block
- Summary
- 9. Theming Our Blog Detail Page
- Reviewing the Blog detail mockup
- Previewing our Blog detail page
- Creating a Post Full template
- Working with comments
- Implementing social sharing capabilities
- Summary
- 10. Theming Our Contact Page
- 11. Theming Our Search Results
- 12. Tips, Tricks, and Where to Go from Here
- A. Biblography
- Index
In this chapter, we will explore the configuration management system and how to deploy configuration changes. Here is a list of the recipes covered in this chapter:
- Importing and exporting configurations
- Synchronizing site configurations
- Using command-line workflow processes
- Using the filesystem for configuration storage
Drupal 8 provides a new, unified system for managing configurations. In Drupal 8, all configurations are saved in configuration entities that match a defined configuration schema. This system provides a standard way of deploying the configuration between Drupal site environments and updating the site configuration.
Once the configuration has been created, or imported, it goes into an immutable state. If a module tries to install the configuration that exists, it will throw an exception and be prevented. Outside the typical user interface, the configuration can only be modified through the configuration management system.
The configuration management system can be manipulated through a user interface provided by the Configuration management module or through the command-line interface tools. These tools allow you to follow the development paradigm of utilizing a production site and development site where changes are made to the development site and then pushed to production.
Note
Instead of creating two different Drupal sites for the recipes in this chapter, you can utilize the Drupal multisite functionality. For more information, refer to the Installing Drupal recipe of Chapter 1, Up and Running with Drupal 8. Note that if you use a multisite, you need to clone your development site's database into the site acting as your production site to replicate a realistic development and production site workflow.
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