Here is a quick run down on the tech I learned about, I have so much to dig into and learn!

Drupal 8:

Quick rundown for Drupal 8 -Kickstart Video

Drupal 8 Kickstart Session Video

• Symfony – Drupal 8 is now using the Sf PHP library.
  • Twig Templating – Designers (Templates) – Developers (api)
    • Sublime Twig Text Bundle 
• Composer – a Package Manager for PHP, uses JSON.
  • helps find what you need and installs it, and  any missing dependencies.
  • can download and keep current all software with 2 commands.
  • Using Composer to install Drupal/modules.
• Drush
  • Industry Standard best practice CLI tool
  • Does things 3x-10x faster than thru working through admin web.
  • Requires PHP 5.5+ for current version 9, 5.3.0 for Drush 7
• Drupal Console
  • New command line interface tool for Drupal
  • Creates boilerplate files for modules/themes
  • install into every website or globally.
  • ‘make a blank module scaffold, do some admin tasks’
• YAML
  • stands for ‘YAML Aint Markup Language’
  • new drupal config file format – for default settings
  • .info becomes .info.yml

Dev Ops -Workflow, Automation and Performance Tuning.

• Vagrant – builds complete virtual dev environments, share them
  • ZivTech VM – https://github.com/zivtech/vagrant-development-vm
  • Charging Hawk Lightweight VM https://github.com/charginghawk/vagrant
  • Drupal VM http://www.drupalvm.com/
• Testing & Automation
  • Selenium/Behat
  • Jenkins
  • Probo.CI
  • Ansible
• Caching
  • Varnish

My overall takeaways:

We need to get our workflow in order, and we have so much to dive into for 8. Lots of the optimization will help our Drupal 7 installs as well.

I’d really like to get some common/version controlled local environments setup, like with Vagrant, so we can all be using the same local, and keep that under version control.

Standardize! Automate! Version!