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• RETIREMENT • LIFE INSURANCE • INVESTMENTS

Drupal DeploymentING Financial Services

Windsor – Feb 2011

www.ing.us

Matthew Wetmore

Senior Software Developer

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What will we cover?

• ING’s history with Drupal

• How ING builds Drupal Sites

• How ING migrates sites between environments

• Staging vs. Production

• Deploy Module

• Demo

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ING’s History with Drupal

• ING started using Drupal in August 2010

• Started with the launch of ING.us (08/10)

• 2 additional sites have been launched since then.

• ing.us/retirement (retirewithing.com) (11/10)

• ing.us/rri (ING Retirement Research Institute) (1/11)

• ING and Stellent

• Stellent was the primary CMS, but it was large and not as dynamic as Drupal.

• Time to market with Drupal was 2-3 times faster then Stellent.

• Drupal provided a more dynamic environment for the business.

• Sites developed both in house and with external vendors.

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Screenshot: ING.us

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Screenshot: ING.us/retirement

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Screenshot: ING.us/rri

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How ING builds Drupal Sites

• Develop sites both in-house and with Third Party vendors.

• 3 Step Environment

• Dev / Testing

• Staging

• Production

• Start with a starter theme.

• Either zen or framework

• Extensive Wireframe for each site.

• HTML Design markups

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Example Wireframe (ing.us)

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How ING migrates Sites

• Utilize Backup and Migrate module.

• Provides simple mysql extract of database.

• Make note of both Development URL and Staging URL

• Keep track of difference in URL length.

• Scrub MySQL file to remove instances of Dev URL.

• Inspect Variable Table insert statements for changes, need to

modify array to compensate for URL length difference.

• Load cleaned MySQL file to empty database in Staging.

• Copy source from Dev and update Settings.php

• Attempt to login and clear cache, work through other issues.

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Staging vs. Production

• Issue: Business needs to view content exactly how it will look in Production.

• Solution: Create a staging environment that looks exactly like Production

where the business can see the content exactly how it will look. Staging will

then provide the content up to Production.

• Staging provides the ability to fully test and create content, site structure,

layouts, css, changes before moving them to Production.

• But how do we make that final migration from Staging to Production and how

do we make other updates in the future?

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Deploy Module

• More info on deploy can be found at: http://drupal.org/project/deploy

• Requirements:

• Services (http://drupal.org/project/services)

• Base Deploy can push the following:

• Nodes (Pages/Story)

• Custom Content Types

• System Settings

• Users

• ING has custom build Deploy components for each of our sites and

configurations.

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Screenshots: Deploy

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Screenshots: Deploy

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Deploy Demo

• Demo on setup and using Deploy

• Enabling Services

• Enabling Deploy

• Configuring Deploy w/ Plans

• Lets deploy a page

• Lets deploy some system settings