Content Staging and Deployments in Drupal 7

dixon_ — Fri, 13 May 2011 18:14:45 +0000

Dick Olsson

Katherine Bailey

Content staging and deployment strategies are something that many site builders are fighting with. Publishers wants to preview and optimize content or whole sections of a site, before publishing it live. Another scenario is where publishers wants to deploy content from one site to a network of sub sites, or similar. It's a complex problem to solve.

Intended Audience:

Site builders and configurators. Basic Drupal knowledge will help.

Questions answered by this session:

How do I preview pieces of content or whole sections of my site, before publishing it live?

How do I set up an environment that supports content staging?

How do I configure the Deploy module for Drupal 7?

How will the Configuration Management Initiative help content staging and deployments in the future?

Schedule info

Time slot:

25 August 11:00 - 12:00

Room:

Concert Hall

Slides:

Content_Staging_and_Deployments_in_Drupal.pdf

Easy Drupal Hosting Lifecycle: Local Dev, Production Deploy, Cloud Scale, and Sleep Well.

bjaspan — Mon, 09 May 2011 14:00:50 +0000

Barry Jaspan

Drupal site best practice workflow includes initial development on local workstation, testing in a staging environment, and a production environment ranging from a single server to a high-performance high-availability cluster. After initial deployment, future versions go through the same workflow with the additional need to run tests based on the current production database and filesystem.

In this session, I'll demonstrate how to easily develop, test, and scale your Drupal site through this entire lifecycle without losing your mind.

Intended Audience:

This session is for anyone that builds or deploys Drupal sites for their own organization or for clients.

Questions answered by this session:

How can I get develop locally and easily deploy the site to a high performance server or cluster?

How do I seamlessly and automatically scale my production web site up and down to handle varying traffic, without downtime?

How do I keep track of multiple Drupal sites, databases, and files directories, each with a development, testing, and production environment?

How do I ensure my site stays up 24x7 even when one or more servers fail?

Who do I go to when I encounter an server operation or Drupal problem I need help with?