Streamlining Environment Changes with Drupal Configuration Management

Oliver Davies discusses strategies for reliably moving changes between environments in a recent blog post, emphasizing the importance of automation to ensure consistency. Highlighting Drupal's evolution, Oliver recalls the Features module in Drupal 7 and update hooks for applying changes, while praising Drupal 8's introduction of configuration management as a significant improvement. He outlines tools like Config Split for environment-specific configurations and Config Ignore for excluding sensitive information. Davies reflects on a recent project where the absence of a CI pipeline complicated configuration management, noting that its implementation greatly streamlined processes, improved consistency, and accelerated release cycles.