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Fabian Bircher
21 Dec 2020
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Fabian Bircher
21 Dec 2020
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Configuration management initiative update and recap of DrupalCon Europe 2020

Last week was the virtual DrupalCon Europe and I had the pleasure to present CMI 2 updates together with Moshe Weitzman. Attached to this post are the slides.

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Fabian Bircher
29 Oct 2019
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Fabian Bircher
29 Oct 2019
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The session was super packed, so not everybody could attend the session.

Yesterday I presented the updates for the Configuration Management Initiative 2 at DrupalCon Amsterdam. The main takeaways are:

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Antonio De Marco
20 Oct 2019
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Antonio De Marco
20 Oct 2019
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Supercharge Drupal 8 migration process by externalizing data export and transformation.

When having to import data onto a Drupal 8 site there is no other choice than relying on core’s Migrate API and its contrib ecosystem. At Nuvole we have adopted a so called "middle-format approach". The process simply moves the Extract and Transform parts outside Drupal so to ease the production of an easy to import dataset, in a well known middle-format (such as JSON API).

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Fabian Bircher
10 Oct 2019
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Fabian Bircher
10 Oct 2019
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Configuration Management is improved in the next Drupal version

There are a few significant changes that landed in Drupal 8.8 with respect to configuration management. In this blog post we will give an overview of the most important ones.

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Fabian Bircher
13 Jun 2019
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Fabian Bircher
13 Jun 2019
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Session slides for the dev days CMI 2.0 session

Today I presented the CMI 2.0 updates at the drupal dev days in Cluj-Napoca. The session went well and I received good feedback and had interesting conversations about configuration management after it. Attached are the slides I presented.

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Fabian Bircher
9 Apr 2019
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Fabian Bircher
9 Apr 2019
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Help us answer difficult questions about configuration management for Drupal core.

Tomorrow Wednesday at 13:45 (Pacific Daylight Time) in room 6C we have the CMI 2.0 updates session at the Drupalcon. Together with Mike Potter, we will briefly present the work that has been done so far and lay out the road map for what is to come. The session will be recorded and the slides are attached to this post (subject to change).

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Fabian Bircher
6 Mar 2019
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Fabian Bircher
6 Mar 2019
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Help us set the stage for future configuration management improvements in core.

The configuration management initiative 2.0 needs your help. I will be presenting updates of CMI 2.0 at the upcoming Drupalcon Seattle together with Mike Potter.

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Fabian Bircher
9 Apr 2018
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Fabian Bircher
9 Apr 2018
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A new workflow for distribution configuration management.

Config Distro allows distribution developers to say how the "distributions configuration" is supposed to be updated and it allows distribution-based site developers to treat the distribution maintainers as a developer on their team.

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Fabian Bircher
13 Oct 2017
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Fabian Bircher
13 Oct 2017
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Config Split treats all the cli the same.

Drupal 8.4 and its upgrade to Symfony 3 has made the compatibility of the global Drush 8 a bit more challenging. Drush 9 works with Drupal 8.4 but it is not stable yet and the format of how third party Drush commands are made has changed significantly.

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Fabian Bircher
21 Aug 2017
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Fabian Bircher
21 Aug 2017
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Celebrating the 8.x-1.0 release of our configuration management helper modules.

One year ago we released the first public version of Config Split with the goal to simplify working with Drupal cores configuration management.

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Fabian Bircher
25 Apr 2017
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Fabian Bircher
25 Apr 2017
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Key points from our configuration management sessions.

Unfortunately none of us from Nuvole are attending DrupalCon Baltimore and can’t, therefore, attend the “hallway track” and join discussions in person. We have held presentations about advanced configuration management in Drupal 8 at all Drupal events we attended in the last year including the last DrupalCon in Dublin. So I’ll try to cover some concepts here that could help the discussion about how the configuration management can be improved.

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Andrea Pescetti
30 Mar 2017
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Andrea Pescetti
30 Mar 2017
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New directions for Config Split and UI Patterns

Last week we attended and sponsored the Drupal Developer Days in Seville where we also had two well attended sessions.

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Fabian Bircher
27 Feb 2017
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Fabian Bircher
27 Feb 2017
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A new structure and new possibilities for Config Split

Our solution for advanced configuration management workflows has just become more powerful! The core of what makes Configuration Split work so nicely with drush and the Drupal UI has been split off in a new module: Config Filter!

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Antonio De Marco
23 Jan 2017
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Antonio De Marco
23 Jan 2017
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Expose atomic UI patterns as plugins and use them as drop-in templates in your Drupal 8 projects

The UI Patterns module allows you to define and expose self-contained UI patterns as Drupal 8 plugins and use them seamlessly as drop-in templates for panels, field groups, views, Display Suite view modes and field templates.

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Fabian Bircher
28 Nov 2016
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Fabian Bircher
28 Nov 2016
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Solving one of Drupal 8 core's development and deployment work-flow issues.

One of the nice things that happened during Drupal Ironcamp in Prague last week was the first beta release of the Configuration Split that I started developing a few months ago.

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