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Drupal DevOps
Decoupling, Demystifying and Decomplicating
Chris Ward - @chrischinch

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Why use a CMS?
Why reinvent the wheel?
Existing body of knowledge
Requirement

3.
Why Drupal?
CMS/CMF/Framework?
Learning curve
Powers BIG sites
Growing
Less bad for DevOps
meetup.com/drupalmelbourne

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So what’s the
problem?

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flickr.com/photos/30222677@N04/51346884

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How can Drupal help?
Features
Profiles
Drush
Drush Aliases
Drush Make
Aegir
Other tools…

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Starting at the end… Drupal 8
Symfony
Configuration Management

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Features
Package configuration into
reusable and deployable
bundles.
UUID for content
Not the only approach… ‘Apps’

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Drush
Command Line Drupal
Simplifies many, many tasks
Extended by other modules

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Drush Aliases
The same features as before
On any site/server

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Drush Make / Profiles
Create sites on the command
line
Specify Core, Modules,
Features and more
Profiles are your custom starting
point
Distributions

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Tying it together… Aegir
Control panel and Deployment
tool for Drupal
Utilises all the components
touched upon

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Questions so far?

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Other tools

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Testing
Simpletest
Selenium
Automated testing with
• Jenkins
• Behat

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DevOp Goodness
Vagrant
Puppet
Devel
Backup & Migrate
Acquia Dev Desktop
Acquia Dev cloud
Pantheon

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Optimising
Default levels
Boost
Memcache
Varnish
Nginx
MariaDB, MongoDB
Many specific tips

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Questions?
Chris Ward
@chrischinch
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