Building a Network of 195 Drupal 8 Sites
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The document discusses the implementation of a network of 195 Drupal 8 websites for Fairfax County Public Schools, focusing on their goals of standardization and flexibility across school sites. It outlines the challenges faced, including deployment and configuration management, and highlights the advantages of using Drupal for centralized management at scale. The presentation concludes with a summary of the effective partnership and unique solutions achieved through this initiative.
Building a Network of 195 Drupal 8 Sites
- 1. Building a Network of 195 Drupal 8 Sites Bringing Drupal 8 to Fairfax County Public Schools
- 2. Pantheon.io 2 Who Are We? Ben Stoffel-Rosales Partner Manager, Pantheon Kurt Voelker VP of Solutions Forum One Aaron Zinck Technology Manager Forum One
- 3. Pantheon.io 3 Agenda ➔ Fairfax County Public Schools ● Goals, Pains, and Why they turned to Drupal ➔ Lessons, Successes, and Challenges: Drupal 8 for 195 Websites ● Competitive Landscape: Much Ado About Drupal Multisite ● FCPS Architecture - meeting their unique needs ● Deployment and Platform Operation ● Configuration Management ➔ Q&A
- 4. Fairfax County Public School Goals, pains, and background 4
- 5. ● 10th largest US school district. ● Nearly 200k students attending 194 schools ● Biggest employer in VA with 24,000 employees
- 8. 404
- 10. 1 “Web Curator” per School
- 11. Too Much Time “HTML”ing, Not Teaching
- 12. No way to improve across all sites
- 13. ● Standardize quality across school sites... ● ...but allow for school uniqueness. ● Multiple authors, centrally managed. ● Content, systems, features connect ‘main site’ and school sites.
- 14. 14 A Great Fit for Drupal ● Supporting ‘school site’ standardization AND flexibility with install profiles ● Easing the burden of managing so many properties
- 15. Lessons, Successes, Challenges Under the hood with Drupal 8 for 194 websites. 15
- 16. Competitive Landscape Drupal Multisite vs. Custom Upstreams ● Snowflake sites ● Individual site resources, installs ● Central management of distribution at scale 16
- 19. Upstream Updates
- 20. The FCPS Drupal 8 Architecture Meeting FCPS unique needs ● FCPS.edu main site, single Drupal install ● School sites, install profile driven sites ● Multiple “connections” across sites 20
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- 23. Push alerts to all school sites.
- 26. Looking Closely at the School Site Install Profile ● Specially tailored ‘Drupal’ that support FCPS specific needs out of the box ● Provides Content Theme & Theme customization Security & Users Configuration 26
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- 31. Deployment and Operation Creating efficiency and consistency at code level across independent school sites. ● Terminus: Pantheon specific shell environment ● Automating the deployment with Terminus scripting 31
- 32. Configuration Management & Features New capabilities in Configuration Management for Drupal 8 need special consideration ● Pick One: Configuration Management or Features 32
- 33. The Most Challenging? Things to really look for. ● Multilingual in combination with workflow not ready in D8 ● D8 caching challenges with size, deadlocking. 33
- 34. Summing Up ● 195 sites, One platform. ● D8 + Pantheon + Partner = unique solution that takes advantage of Drupal strengths. 34
- 35. Thank you! It’s time for your questions.