CMI (Configuration Management Initiative) in Drupal 8

Nguyen Tien Si

Agenda

• Drupal 7• CMI in Drupal 8• Demo• Question?

Drupal 7

• Have many way to save configuration– Variable table– Own module table

• Deploy from Dev to Pro, includes:– Update_N() hook– Features module– Ctools exportable– …

CMI in Drupal 8

Source: drupalwatchdog.com

CMI in Drupal 8

Exporting the configuration to the file system as YAML fileEx: core/modules/image/config/image.style.large.yml

CMI in Drupal 8

Drupal installation two directories will be created:• active: This stores your currently live configuration.• staging: This stores configuration that is ready to be imported.Ex: sites/default/files/config_0uja8Kt-jH9Pcvu9AGznoQp6FmFs1hVB6APfJMKLcMg

active:

CMI in Drupal 8

API

CMI in Drupal 8

Import/Export to deploy

CMI in Drupal 8

Import/Export to deploy

CMI in Drupal 8

Import/Export to deploy

CMI in Drupal 8

Import/Export to deploy

CMI in Drupal 8

Import/Export do deploy

CMI in Drupal 8

Import/Export to deploy

Demo

Source:https://github.com/mrsinguyen/cmidemo

Download:https://github.com/mrsinguyen/cmidemo/archive/8.x-1.x.zip

References

• http://drupal8cmi.org• https://drupal.org/node/1667894

Question?

Any question?