Successfully deploying your Drupal site

So far, we have created a Drupal code base, set up a local development environment, and put our code base into version control. Now, it is time to cover deploying your Drupal site to a server.

Deploying your Drupal site involves more than just copying over the code files as you may need to run schema updates and configuration imports. In this recipe, we will use rsync, an efficient file transfer tool, to copy our Drupal site code base to a server and use Drush to create a successful Drupal deployment.

Getting ready

This recipe requires access to a virtual machine over SSH that has a Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP (LAMP) stack installed. Many cloud providers, such as Digital Ocean and AWS Lightsail, have one-click installations for LAMP stack virtual machines:

• A virtual machine with 1 GB of memory and one CPU will suffice, usually the lowest virtual machine tier.
• You must be able to access the virtual machine using SSH key...