Maintaining Drupal
Every Drupal application requires maintenance. Those who adopt Drupal must understand common maintenance activities, including how to check for updates. Earlier chapters discussed code deployment workflows, environments, Composer, and more. This chapter brings these concepts together for a more comprehensive view of maintaining Drupal. This may propose practices that help automate the maintenance of Drupal new to some. Next, the book will discuss how to apply updates after the code is deployed. Finally, we share best practices when performing updates.
In this chapter, we’re going to cover the following main topics:
- Types of maintenance
- Code maintenance process
- Best practices