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Drupal 8 Configuration Management

Chapter 2. Configuration Management for Administrators

In the previous chapter, we learned about the general concept of Configuration Management and how we used Configuration Management in Drupal 7, or at least how we tried to do it.

This chapter will provide an introduction on how to use Configuration Management, for administrators (rather than developers) of a Drupal website who want to make use of the advantages of this new feature. We will show you how to use the Configuration Management interface, how to create a copy of your website, and how to move configuration made on one site to another site.

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...

Summary

In this chapter, we have learned how to use the Configuration Management interface and how to create a copy of our website, and also learned how to move a configuration made on one site to another site. In the next chapter, we will learn the inner workings of the Configuration Management system in Drupal 8.

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Drupal 8 Configuration Management is intended for people who use Drupal 8 to build websites, whether you are a hobbyist using Drupal for the first time, a long-time Drupal site builder, or a professional web developer.

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Drupal 8 Configuration Management is intended for people who use Drupal 8 to build websites, whether you are a hobbyist using Drupal for the first time, a long-time Drupal site builder, or a professional web developer.

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Table of Contents

10 Chapters
1. Understanding Configuration Management Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
2. Configuration Management for Administrators Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
3. Drupal 8's Take on Configuration Management Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
4. The Configuration Management API Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
5. The Anatomy of Schema Files Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
6. Adding Configuration Management to Your Module Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
7. Upgrading Your Drupal 7 Variables to the Drupal 8 Configuration Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
8. Managing Configuration for Multilingual Websites Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
9. Useful Tools and Getting Help Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
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This book clears up a lot of the confusion and muddiness and makes sense out of mysterious but powerful Configuration Management capabilities of Drupal 8. It goes into great detail about the situation before Drupal 8 and why it is so important but also so challenging. One thing it doesn't clarify is exactly what is configuration vs. content. Not everything you would expect gets captured in YML. A very easy book to read and well worth the price.
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Paul Mar 21, 2017
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The book is mostly a collection of statements from the internet searches and adds no details. It relies on references to web sites. I had hoped for "big picture" view of how the configuration works for Drupal 8. That information is missing.
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