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How I am migrating JeffGeerling.com from Drupal 7 to 8 "It'll be easy," they said. Je ff Geerling (@geerlingguy) at - May 1, 2020 Hello, I'm Jeff Geerling (a.k.a. geerlingguy) "It'll be easy,"

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Jeff Geerling (@geerlingguy) at - May 1, 2020

How I am migrating JeffGeerling.com from Drupal 7 to 8

"It'll be easy," they said.

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Hello, I'm Jeff Geerling (a.k.a. geerlingguy)

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"It'll be easy," they said.

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Narrator: It was not easy.

"It'll be easy," they said.

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Day 1

"We'll do it live!"

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vu2NK5REvWM

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Day 1

"We'll do it live!"

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vu2NK5REvWM

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Day 98

"We'll be done soon, I promise!"

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Day 98

"We'll be done soon, I promise!"

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A Little History

  • c. 2004: Thingamablog
  • c. 2009: Drupal 6
  • c. 2011: Drupal 7 (migrated)
  • c. 2018: Dark mode redesign
  • 2020: Migrating to Drupal 8!
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A Little History

  • c. 2004: Thingamablog
  • c. 2009: Drupal 6
  • c. 2011: Drupal 7 (migrated)
  • c. 2018: Dark mode redesign
  • 2020: Migrating to Drupal 8!
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A Little History

  • c. 2004: Thingamablog
  • c. 2009: Drupal 6
  • c. 2011: Drupal 7 (migrated)
  • c. 2018: Dark mode redesign
  • 2020: Migrating to Drupal 8!
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A Little History

  • c. 2004: Thingamablog
  • c. 2009: Drupal 6
  • c. 2011: Drupal 7 (migrated)
  • c. 2018: Dark mode redesign
  • 2020: Migrating to Drupal 8!
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A Little History

  • c. 2004: Thingamablog
  • c. 2009: Drupal 6
  • c. 2011: Drupal 7 (migrated)
  • c. 2018: Dark mode redesign
  • 2020: Migrating to Drupal 8!
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Migration Goals

  • Preserve all content
  • 'Lift and shift' (limit scope creep, no redesign!)
  • Preserve all URLs, redirects, SEO optimizations
  • Be able to reinstall site at any point during the migration
  • Use modern goodies like:
  • GitHub Actions for CI
  • Composer
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Total time: 98 days (abs) ≈ 30 hours

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Total time: 98 days (abs) ≈ 30 hours

(so far...)

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Highlights

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Configuration Management made re-installation and changes easy.

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migrate-upgrade mostly did

everything as if by magic.

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Almost all my D7 modules were available in D8.

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Almost all my D7 modules were available in D8.

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(let the "Upgrade Status" module help!)

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Site building in D8 is SO much better.

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Claro admin theme rocks.

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Disappointments

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migrate-upgrade mostly did

everything as if by magic.

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migrate-upgrade mostly did

everything as if by magic.

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Many migration issues are hard to debug.

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Theme upgrade is practically a rewrite.

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Theme upgrade is practically a rewrite.

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(but Twig is awesome!)

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Local development environments are still not easy.

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Local development environments are still not easy.

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(I say that as the maintainer of Drupal VM)

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Where am I today?

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How can I follow along?

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Learn from my mistakes!

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jeffgeerling.com/d8-migrate

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Learn from my mistakes!

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jeffgeerling.com/d8-migrate (and subscribe to my YouTube channel!) (and follow me on Twitter/Insta: @geerlingguy)