Click here to watch Drupal Lifecycle Management, or How To Keep Your Dev Swagger After Launch.

There are a number of emerging standards for professional Drupal development processes, but the challenge doesn’t stop after the initial build. The industry discipline of "Application Lifecycle Management" (ALM) is still a frontier, and it's not as tedious or cumbersome as you might think. Done right, it's a liberation.

Realizing the full potential of Drupal means keeping your agility after launch and being able to drive ahead with additional features and fixes. Far too often, after the go-live, developers lose their ability to rock updates because the toolchain isn't in place to keep the site evolving easily and safely.

In a perfect world, all developers can continue making updates to the site design and functionality easily and seamlessly without downtime or worry. This session will cover several practical must-haves for best-class Drupal Application Lifecycle Management:

• Deploying directly from version control (“push to deploy”)
• Running continuous integration with a Drupal site
• Managing Drupal across multiple servers
• Setting up and running Drush remotes
• Handling core updates

Learn how to use shell scripts, git hooks, Jenkins and other free and open source tools to cover these important functions for your development team and sites.