D8 Deployment and Continuous Integration

Amin Alid, CTO, Anolim GmbH

Web and mobile developmentB2B solutions, financial solutions

Amin Alid, CTO, Anolim GmbHamin.alid@anolim.com

Virtual Data Centers for devsProgrammable Infrastructure

http://anolim.com

http://www.safeswisscloud.ch

Why CI?How is it done?How will D8 improve things?

3Things..

Why CI??

Ever had to...

Spend hours preparing to go live?

Spend an unplanned week of bug fixing after each deployment?

Ever had to...

Deal with a fragile website that breaks everytime you touch it?

Integration time…

What would it take to...

Deliver faster & increase quality?

What would it take to...

Do more meaningful work Less bug fixing

Happy client & happy team

What we did...

Maintain a code repository Understand your branching model

What we did...

Quick, automated builds

What we did...

Integrate into a live like environment

What we did...

Commit and build often Make the build self testing

What we did...

Test on a clone of production

Automate deployment to production

Results...

Painful deployment to one click deployment

Results...

From 3h to 15 min

Results...

From days to prepare and stabilize to

barely any maintenance

Results...

From bug fixing to new features

How is CI done?7Drupal

Tools and practices...

Update hook, Features, Drush, Configuration module, WF Tools

Features, workflow

DrushEnable, disable modules and featuresdrush en -y devel views_ui

Put site on maintenance, set variablesdrush vset --yes maintenance_mode 1

Sync and sanitize datadrush sql-sync -y @user.prod --sanitizedrush -y rsync @user.prod:%files/ @self:%files

Evaluate codedrush ev ‘$user = user_load(112)’drush sqlq “UPDATE block SET ...”

Any custom drush command

SaltStack

Vagrant, CloudStack

Tools and practices...

Jenkins, Phing SimpleTest, Selenium

D7: Limitations, problems

Hard to track configurations with FeaturesLimited integration with external tools

How will D8 help me?8Drupal

D8 Improvements...

Core Configuration Management API File based configurations!

D8 Configuration Management

D8 Improvements...

Features 3.XState APIComposer for dependenciesSimpleTest to PHPUnit

To Do...

Finalize APIsContributed modules on top of new APIsIntegration into different external CI tools

Conclusion...

CI is good for you D8 is here to help We need contribution

Happy client & Happy team

Thanks!http://prague2013.drupal.org/session/drupal-8-deployment-and-continuous-integration