Staging Drupal: Managing your project in multiple environments

Abstract:
Building complex web applications, especially in a team environment, requires more than just code and geeks; it also requires strategy. Drupal shops need to understand how to manage the platform in multiple environments and in all phases of the application lifecycle.

Agenda:

• Drupal development strategy
• Multiple environments
  • sandboxes, staging area, production
• Managing Drupal with Subversion
  • Repositories, branches, tags, externals, template files, etc
  • Two tier checkout
    • Core repository and project repository
    • Multisite considerations
• Automate administrative tasks through code
  • views, content types, settings, nodes, taxonomy
  • Install profile “gotchas”
• Drupal Tools
  • Permissions API
  • Deploy
  • Services
  • Drush
• What’s Missing

Goals:
This session will familiarize attendees with the tools and processes used to manage development, QA, and production of Drupal projects.

Resources:
• Permissions API (http://drupal.org/project/permissions_api)
• Deploy (http://drupal.org/project/deploy)
• Services (http://drupal.org/project/services)
• Drush (http://drupal.org/project/drush)