A key component for managing a Drupal website is configuration integrity. A key part of maintaining this integrity is ensuring that your configuration changes made in development are pushed upstream to your production environments. Maintaining configuration changes by manually exporting and importing through the user interface can be tedious and does not provide a way to track what has or has not been exported or imported. At the same time, manually writing module hooks to manipulate the configuration can be time-consuming. Luckily, the configuration management solution provides you with the ability to export and import the entire site's configuration.
A site export can only be imported into another copy of itself. Each site must have the same UUID, which is set during its installation. This allows you to export your local development environment...