April Drupal Meetup - Migrating to Drupal 8

Join us at our April Drupal Users Group Meetup.

Presenter: Brandon Williams

Topic: Migrating to Drupal 8

This month we'll learn how migrations in Drupal 8 work by looking at two Drupal 7 sites. A "simple" blog with 9 contrib modules, and a "complicated" site with lots of contrib, content translations, custom themes and modules.

Migrate or upgrade? In previous versions of drupal, when you wanted to move to the next major release you could do an in-place upgrade. That meant you upgraded the code in place and it updated the database in place. This was prone to errors and confusion, and if you weren't doing this on a test site there was a chance you could mess up the live site.

For Drupal 8, migration is now the supported method for upgrading from Drupal 6 or 7. That's right, you can migrate directly from 6 to 8 and skip 7! With a migration, you install a new Drupal 8 site, and add the database connection information of you're old site. Then Drupal will migrate the data over, without changing the old site, into Drupal 8.

Can't make it in person? You can join us via the live stream. Check back closer to the event for the link.

• • • The Fine Print - - -

When: Doors open at 7, presentation starts at 7:30.
Come early for networking, free pizza, and beer. Stick around after for more networking and drinks!

Where: Capital Factory (Located in the Austin Centre)
701 Brazos Street, 16th floor, Austin, TX

Parking: Downtown parking can be a headache, but it doesn't have to be!

You have two handy $5 options:

1. Park at the Omni and get your parking ticket validated at the Capital Factory front desk
2. Park in the Alamo Drafthouse parking garage, conveniently located across the street from Capital Factory on E 7th