From Drupal 7 to Drupal 8: Features VS. Configuration Management

Drupal 8 is now in the beta phase, as announced in DrupalCon Amsterdam a few weeks ago.

The Drupal 8 Configuration Management system is now well established in core, aiming at making it much simpler to transport configuration changes from development to production.

But it is not going to make Features a thing of the past: the ugly part of Features will be gone for good, while the best part, the real concept behind Features, is going to stay.

Many benefits of Features are, in fact, out of scope for CMI. These include: packaging configuration, reusing configuration in other projects (and not simply moving it between the development and production version of the same site) and enabling real-time team collaboration (developer A and developer B build two separate features for the same site, like the News and Blog sections, simultaneously).

In this session we will showcase the main features of the Configuration Management system with a special focus on comparing Drupal 7 Features-driven development with the brand new Drupal 8 Configuration Management practices.