Best practices for configuration management in Drupal 8

Experience level: 
Intermediate
Session Track: 

Code and DevOps

This track is focused on developers and the back-end technologies to deal with today’s and future challenges. With the coming release of Drupal 8, as well as emerging Web technologies, preparation is essential. These sessions will help you learn how to deliver effective solutions to meet these needs.

Speaker(s): 
justin.p.randell

Drupal 8 ships with a new Configuration Management System (CMI) that vastly improves on Drupal 7. A Drupal site's configuration can be expressed as a set of yaml files, and stored and managed just like source code.

In this talk I'll explore the powerful new CMI features, and present best practice workflows for managing configuration across Drupal 8 projects.

Trying to figure out how Drupal 8's new CMI features will work with your development team? Come to this presentation and we'll try to work it out.