Visualizing Drupal's Configuration Management Process

By wombatbuddy on

The configuration management system in Drupal allows for configuration to be imported and exported between the file system and the database. This enables the management of configuration with version control and allows configuration to be shared across environments (e.g. dev, staging, prod). At its core, it is quite simple, but modern website development workflows and processes can quickly lead to edge cases, which if not handled carefully, can trip up even the most experienced developer and will surely confuse anyone new to Drupal.

Configuration management

This guide explains how to import and export your site's configuration and manage it with version control.

In Drupal, configuration is the collection of admin settings that determine how the site functions, as opposed to the content of the site. Configuration will typically include things such as the site name, the content types and fields, taxonomy vocabularies, views and so on.

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