Developing for Drupal 8 with Drupal VM
summary
Shows a concrete local-to-prod workflow: uses Drupal VM plus VirtualBox and Vagrant to spin a Drupal 8 site, manages PHP dependencies with a composer-only workflow, and provisions servers with an Ansible playbook that can deploy identical config to production in ~10–15 minutes. Demonstrations include adding Apache Solr and Behat (Selenium) into the VM, Windows-friendly deploy-by-git options, and a dashboard that exposes DB credentials and dev tools—everything actually working end-to-end.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Introduction and speaker background
- 3:30What is Drupal VM and why use it
- 7:47Setting up a Drupal 8 project with Composer
- 12:39Local development with Drupal VM
- 15:49Deploying to production with Ansible
- 20:10Example: Adding Apache Solr search
- 24:28Example: Setting up Behat testing
- 30:10Windows support and improvements
- 33:22Recent Drupal VM features and updates
- 37:11Future of Drupal VM and roadmap
- 41:28Q&A: Large projects and enterprise use
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