Deployment

The deployment framework is a series of modules which are designed to allow developers to easily stage Drupal data from one site to another.

This code is now feature-complete and ready for serious testing. Updates since the inital version:

• Many UI improvements
• Vastly superior error handling and reporting
• Postgres support
• Detailed auditing of past deployments
• Can now add multiple views/content types to a plan in one shot

Please read the installation and usage documentation before using the Deployment module. There are a lot of moving parts and while its not "hard" to setup, there are a several steps to go through. There will be a screencast soon!

The deployment framework is designed to have three parts that work together:

• Deployment API - This implements the concept of a deployment plan. You create a deployment plan and add objects to it which will be deployed (content types, views, etc.) When the time comes these items are pushed to a server you specify via XMLRPC with an API key. The data stored about each item is extremely minimal, relying largely on the implementers to implement object-specific knowledge.
• Deployment Implementers - Individual modules implement the deployment API to add the data they need to a deployment plan, and expose that ability to the front end. Currently there are three deployment implementers - Content Copy, System Settings and Views.
• Deployment Services - Services modules which contain the knowledge to receive deployed data and do what is appropriate on the destination server. There are two deployment services included in this package - Content Copy and System Settings. This package also uses the Views service which comes included with the Services module, but it requires the most recent dev snapshot of Services.

A somewhat more detailed writeup of how this works can be found in this blog posting.

I welcome any patches, feature suggestions, feedback, or bug fixes.

Releases

Official releases	Date	Size	Links	Status
5.x-1.0-beta2	2008-Jun-21	14.33 KB	Download · Release notes	Recommended for 5.x