drupal 7 deployment using apache ant. dmitriy svetlichniy

Drupal 7 Deployment Using Apache Ant

Dmitriy Svetlichniy

http://donetsk.drupal.ua

Drupal Cafe №2. Kharkiv

Dmitriy Svetlichniy

WDG Company

Drupal 7 Deployment Using Apache Ant

Drupal Site Deployment. Problems

Dev site Prod site

ver. 2.0 ver. 1.0

Deployment

Main Deployment Task

DON'T LOSE

current site CONTENT

and modules SETTINGS

(f.e., for Google Analytics module)

Drupal Site Deployment. Problems

Drupal site deployment:

1. Files – SVN, Git, FTP, SSH, etc.2. DB – ?

Dev site Prod site

ver. 2.0 ver. 1.0

files

db

Disclaimer

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Problem Solution

Based on strict agreement

of the separating DB tables

into

“settings” “data”

Problem Solution

settings data

dev prod

Step 1

Problem Solution

Step 2

dev

settings data

variable variable

prod

Problem Solution

settings data

variable

devStep 3

Problem Solution

settings data

dev prod

Step 4

Algorithm Implementation

Used technologies:

1) Drupal 7;

2) Apache Ant.

Developed tools:

1)Drupal 7 module “synchro”;

2)Apache Ant script “build.xml”.

Module Interface

Module Interface

Module Interface

Module functionality

Form submit:

Form Data Ant Script

Ant script directory:

[site-path] /sites/default/files/synchro/

Module functionality

Scanning for “variable_set()”

Apache Ant

Installation (for Ubuntu):

sudo apt-get install ant

Apache Ant script structure (build.xml):― XML

―project―property―target

―actions: echo, exec, mkdir...

Ant Script Functionality

Script files:build.xml + .htaccess + compare.php

Main script targets (tasks):–merge_to_dev

–deploy_db

–restore_dev_db

–restore_prod_db

Ant Script Functionality

Target “merge_to_dev” (part 1):–mkdir “backups” and “temp”

–DB structure dumps (using mysqldump)

–compare DB structure (using compare.php)

–compare tables structure (using diff tool)

–DB dumps (using mysqldump)

Ant Script Functionality

Target “merge_to_dev” (part 2):–make settings + data dump (using mysqldump)

–merge setting with data on dev (using mysql)

–make “variable” dump from live (using mysql)

–merge “variable” on dev (using mysql)

–flush dev caches (using get + synchro.module API)

–clean temp folder

Testing Results

Target “merge_to_dev”.

Time of Ant script runnings:

― Testing on initial Drupal site:

―7-8 s― Testing on 10 000 data nodes:

―40-45 s― Testing on 100 000 data nodes:

―230-250 s

Summary

― Problem

― Problem solution

― Solution implementation:

― Drupal 7 module

― Apache Ant script

Helpful Links

You can download module by this link:

drupal.org/sandbox/wdg-company/1324828

http://drupal.org

http://ant.apache.org

http://ant.apache.org/manualhttp://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/mysqldump.html

http://www.ubuntu.com/download

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Thank you!

Skype: svetlichiydE-mail: dmitriy.svetlichniy@wdg.com.ua

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