Search icon CANCEL
Subscription
0
Cart icon
Your Cart (0 item)
Close icon
You have no products in your basket yet
Save more on your purchases now! discount-offer-chevron-icon
Savings automatically calculated. No voucher code required.
Arrow left icon
Explore Products
Best Sellers
New Releases
Books
Videos
Audiobooks
Learning Hub
Conferences
Free Learning
Arrow right icon
Arrow up icon
GO TO TOP
Drupal 8 Configuration Management

You're reading from   Drupal 8 Configuration Management

Arrow left icon
Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2015
Publisher
ISBN-13 9781783985203
Length 148 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Tools
Concepts
Arrow right icon
Toc

Table of Contents (11) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Understanding Configuration Management FREE CHAPTER 2. Configuration Management for Administrators 3. Drupal 8's Take on Configuration Management 4. The Configuration Management API 5. The Anatomy of Schema Files 6. Adding Configuration Management to Your Module 7. Upgrading Your Drupal 7 Variables to the Drupal 8 Configuration 8. Managing Configuration for Multilingual Websites 9. Useful Tools and Getting Help Index

Why do we want to manage our configuration?

If you're not a developer, you might wonder what you need Configuration Management for. Up until now, you have probably made any changes right in the live website, which we call the Production website. For example, you might have added a field to a content type or moved a block to a new region. Sometimes, this works fine, sometimes it doesn't. When everything breaks, you may have to import a backup database, if you are lucky enough to have one. In the meantime, any visitors to your site may have seen a broken site and probably declined to come back. In professional web development, it's crucial to not make changes to the production website. Developers don't build new features in the live website but in a local copy of the site. Only when they are satisfied with the result will the changes go live.

We want to make our configuration live as fast as possible. We don't want to have to click our way through everything again...

lock icon The rest of the chapter is locked
Register for a free Packt account to unlock a world of extra content!
A free Packt account unlocks extra newsletters, articles, discounted offers, and much more. Start advancing your knowledge today.
Unlock this book and the full library FREE for 7 days
Get unlimited access to 7000+ expert-authored eBooks and videos courses covering every tech area you can think of
Renews at $19.99/month. Cancel anytime