1. Features: safely deploying your site Joo Ventura
(jcnventura) [email_address]
2. Site resources
Moving a Drupal site usually requires the following three sets
of resources:
Drupal code files
usually managed under a VCS
Data files (i.e. sites/default/files/*)
Usually not relevant when moving from development to
production, as it is full of placeholder images
Drupal database
Changes to configuration (important) 3. Lorem Ipsum content
(irrelevant)
4. The problem
The configuration changes created in the Drupal database are
part of the development process.
Moving config should not move test content 5. Config should be
handled in the same VCS that manages the code 6. It should be
possible to propagate changes from development to production
(specially for a live site)
Features provides a UI and API for taking different site
building components from modules with exportables and bundling them
together in a single feature module. A feature module is like any
other Drupal module except that it declares its components (e.g.
views, contexts, CCK fields, etc.) in its .info file so that it can
be checked, updated, or reverted programmatically.
13. Features puts configuration into code 14. Exportables
support in Features
