For the sake of continuous integration, agile development, and automated testing, it is essential that code and configuration changes deploy themselves. This can be achieved easily in D7 with some simple strategies and the help of a contrib module.
Reasons you should attend:
- Have multiple developers but only a few allowed to touch the production server.
- No direct access to the production server (most Gov't installations).
- Have automated testing that runs without need of humans.
- Working on D7 sites but are envious of all the configuration export goodness of D8.
- Heard of developers using hook_update_N but you want to know more.
- Want to turbocharge your hook updates.
- Want less stress in your late night deployments.