Demystifying deployment workflows

Talk presented originally at Florida DrupalCamp 2021

https://www.fldrupal.camp/sessions/development-performance/demystifying-deployment-workflows

Fully videos available via https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1k7nMH5GvRpdtXdMmxAdJhwPmT6D27Q3TQtX8oIh-zyA/edit?usp=sharing

Transcript

1. David Stoline Director of Customer Success DDEV Demystifying deployment! https://www.fldrupal.camp https://www.ddev.com
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3. Code of Conduct Contacts email info@fldrupalcamp.org Mike Anello 321-396-2340 https://www.fldrupal.camp AmyJune Hineline 831-406-1130 #florida Drupal Slack channel Or email info@fldrupalcamp.org
4. First-time contributor workshop • Mentored contribution • General contribution #DrupalContributions Contribution Day Saturday, February 20, 2021 12:00pm - 3:30pm https://www.fldrupal.camp/conference/contribution-day
5. Planned Workshops • First-time contributor workshop • Introduction to Merge Requests • Mentored Tooling Contribution Day Saturday, February 20, 2021 12:00pm - 3:30pm https://www.fldrupal.camp/conference/contribution-day Planned Initiatives • Olivero Theme • SimplyTest • Drupal Recipes
6. So, you want to build and launch a Drupal site Today I’m going to show you how to work with a project from the very beginning: • Starting on an a previously unconfigured laptop • Showing you some tools along the way • Ending with launching a site into production These days, development starts with Composer — but first, a local development tool!
7. Wait, what? But the cloud, and AWS, and other things! Let’s keep it simple for now: to be honest, most Drupal development starts on someone’s laptop On-Prem Client data center
8. The local development players • DDEV • Lando • DrupalVM • MAMP • XAMP • Roll your own LAMP • Docker • Docksal • Dozens of others https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2020/2020-drupal-local-development-survey-results
9. Getting started with DDEV Mac/Linux: `brew tap drud/ddev && brew install ddev` Windows WSL2: https://ddev.readthedocs.io/en/stable/#installation-or-upgrade-windows-wsl2
10. Okay, so you want to build a Drupal site `ddev composer create drupal/recommended-project`
11. Let’s talk version control “Version control is the practice of tracking and managing changes to software code. Version control systems are software tools that help software teams manage changes to source code over time. As development environments have accelerated, version control systems help software teams work faster and smarter” TL;DR: Use Git https://www.atlassian.com/git/tutorials/what-is-version-control
12. Let’s talk version control So what about GitHub, GitLab, BitBucket, etc These are primarily engineering collaboration tools, with some project management and DevOps features sprinkled in.
13. Now what? Well, the engineering part. https://www.fldrupal.camp/sessions/beginner-track/anatomy-git-workflow-and-essentials- commands-you-must-memorize https://www.drupal.org/docs/develop/local-server-setup/linux-development-environments/ set-up-a-local-development-drupal-0-7 https://www.lullabot.com/articles/development-workflow-drupal-8-projects
14. Review You’ve now seen taking a site into production beginning from inception using a local development tool, as well as git setup and use of GitHub. Quick pause for questions… feel free to use either the Q&A in Zoom or the chat. Now we are going to fast forward to the day when the site is ready to leave your computer!
15. Local dev problems How do I show my work? • Internally ◦ Engineering team members ◦ Project managers ◦ Sprint demos • Externally ◦ Client stakeholders ◦ User acceptance testing ◦ Functional testing How do I reduce risk? • I need a sick day • Coffee doesn’t belong in a laptop • Ugh, some software I use updated and now I’m stuck googling the problem until it’s resolved and I’ve lost a whole day thanks to this
16. Dev site, but online You need a place to host your site, this could be any of the major Drupal hosts or you could host the site yourself in your own datacenter or cloud. Because your code is in GitHub, it makes it really easy to deploy from there
17. Site creation `ddev-live create site drupal dc-florida \ --git-repo=https://github.com/unn/drup alcamp-flordia \ --docroot=web \ --git-rev=main \ --drupal-version=9 \ --run-composer-install`
18. Site creation, push assets `ddev export-db > db.sql.gz ddev-live push database dc-florida ./db.sql.gz`
19. Deployment workflows Yolo • Branch checked out in an environment ◦ Auto-deployments when merged ◦ Miss out on database updates or config imports but worthwhile for non-production environments Responsible • Git tag checked out in prod ◦ Intentional tag change to trigger deployment
20. Live demo Bringing it all together
21. Deployments made easy Deployments used to be fragile events that required an all hands on deck approach. These days, deployments can be quick, simple, and otherwise non-events. Get back time, focus on your engineering tasks, rather than babysitting your deployments.
22. Recap You have seen an example of how to create a site, store the code on GitHub, host it on DDEV-Live. You have learned how to create a pull request, as well as merge that pull request to trigger a deployment. Advanced: https://www.ddev.com/ddev-live/ci-cd/
23. Thanks! Additional resources from DDEV • https://www.ddev.com/ddev-live/a-git-based-workflow-from-dev-to-deploy/ • https://www.ddev.com/ddev-local/why-developing-locally-matters/ • https://www.ddev.com/ddev-live/moving-cms-sites-around-local-servers/ Find us in gather.town Drupal Slack #ddev and #ddev-live You can find me @davidstoline on Twitter or dstol on d.o