March 2010
Best practice and recommendations for production and development | Acquia Library
This article covers best practices and recommendations from Acquia Support for moving builds from staging to production, to help standardize client build processes. It covers moving code into the staging area, and migrating databases.
January 2010
Drupal And Linux, A Deployment Script | Drupaler | Drupal Blog, Collaborative Drupal Resource
Drupal And Linux, A Deployment Script
October 2009
Creating a module update function to disable your development modules when deploying to production | Eric's Drupal Blog
Creating a module update function to disable your development modules when deploying to production
July 2009
Making and Using Features in Drupal | Development Seed
Features is part of the answer to one of Drupal’s biggest headaches – what to do with all that loose site building and customization that happens on every project. Features is part of the answer to making stronger, better install profiles and targeted distributions of Drupal. And features is part of the answer to making Drupal more task oriented and less daunting to our users.
The Development -> Staging -> Production Workflow Problem in Drupal | Development Seed
Anyone who has developed a relatively complex Drupal site will be able to vouch that, while launching a new site is relatively simple, continuous integration becomes very tricky once the site has actually gone live. This problem becomes especially pronounced when there is more than one developer on a project, and when the project is being built using proper development methodology.
June 2008
Deployment | drupal.org
The deployment framework is a series of modules which are designed to allow developers to easily stage Drupal data from one site to another.
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