Handling a high profile Drupal 9 site launch

With more sites being built in Drupal 9 than ever this session covers some of the steps taken by an agency to get a new site live, ensuring the process is smooth for all parties as well as making things seamless to end users.

This session takes a journey from weeks ahead of go live right through to post go live monitoring from both a Developer and DevOps point of view touching. It touches on:

  • Ensuring the service is security hardened
  • Building a customised pre-launch checklist, launch plan and roll back plan
  • Identifying risks and ensuring preventative tasks are carried out or processes are in place to rectify them in the event of an issue
  • Identifying tests that need to be run post go live to sign-off
  • Ensuring key team members are aware of all steps and expected outcomes
  • Ensuring monitoring is in place
  • Go Live!

We also touch on some tips and tricks learnt from real world launches to help ease pain points and aid in resolution of issues when you're against the clock.

Time: Tuesday, 20 September, 2022 - 17:40 to 18:00
Room: Room D4 Pantheon

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