Automating Drupal Deployment Dominique De Cooman

 Developer for 5 years  Web agencies in Belgium   Contributions  Blog Who am I

 Faster  Less errors  Well documented  Reproducable  History  Continous Integration Why deploying automaticaly

 Vps with a Lamp stack  Version control – Git  Drush  Drupal of course  Dev – Staging – Production setup  Continous integration server  Deployment scripts Basic components

 Vps  You can get a vps from 12€/month on most hosting platforms. There are trials available everywhere  Example:   How to set it up?

 Plenty of installation scripts online  Example  installing-drupal-ubuntu-drupal-training-purpose Install your lamp stack

 Git  We will use the succesfull branching model   Git flow  Production branch  Development branch  Release branch  Hotfixes  Install  Git flow  Bash complete Version control

 DRUpal SHell  Install   Drush aliasses  Simplyfies executing commands in builds Drush

 Create a proper repository layout  Bash  Updates  Installs  scripts  Docroot  Documentation  Etc  Drupal (settings files, robot.txt, htaccess, …)  Drush - aliases  Ssh  vhost  Configure you server to connect to drupal. Drupal

 Jenkins  Install  ci.org/display/JENKINS/Installing+Jenkins+on+Ubuntu ci.org/display/JENKINS/Installing+Jenkins+on+Ubuntu  Why?  Automate our workflow  Execute our tests Continous integration server

 Exporting database changes  Configuring jenkins jobs  Writing deployment scripts Automating the workflow

 Use features  Use hook_update()  D8 configuration management in core Exporting database changes

 Jenkins  Create jobs  Environments  Testbots  Basic setup  General settings  Repository configuration  Build triggers  Post build actions Configuring the jobs

 Copy files  Update the code  Settings file  Copy build script Build section

 Enable/Disable ui modules  Set environment specific variables  Error_level  Cache  Revert features  Update the database  Flush cache Deploy scripts

 Modules  Leave the opportunity to debug  Error level  Caching settings  Staging and production must by identical  Representative  No testrun on production Differences per environment

 Develop on feature branch  Run testbot – fix error  Export changes  Commit  Merge feature in development branch  Deploy on development environment  Monitor job execution  Evaluate tests  Manual testing  Create release branch  Deploy release branch on staging environment  Evaluate tests  Merge branch into master and development  Deploy master on production environment  Create hotfix branch - maintenance  Test and deploy hotfix branch  Merge hotfix into master and merge into development  Deploy master Demo

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 Minimizing overhead with git flow  Installing lamp stack drupal-ubuntu-drupal-training-purpose drupal-ubuntu-drupal-training-purpose  Go live checklist 7-tip-how-automate-and-control-your-go-live-checklisthttp:// 7-tip-how-automate-and-control-your-go-live-checklist  Install jenkins ci.org/display/JENKINS/Installing+Jenkins+on+Ubuntuhttps://wiki.jenkins- ci.org/display/JENKINS/Installing+Jenkins+on+Ubuntu   Get all the code, job scripts and presentation overview: deployment deployment Resources