MySQL

Migrating SQL in Drupal 8 with Migrate Tools and Migrate Plus

Submitted by christophe on Tue, 13/06/2017 - 22:21
Migrate API is awesome, and if you plan some custom migration, a few contributed modules does the heavy lifting for you. This article should be regarded as a list of steps to follow to achieve a simple migration from another SQL data source than Drupal. So we will not go in deep into the explanations of the Migrate theory, for this subject, refer to the documentation of the Migrate API. Also, we will finish with some debugging techniques and a first shot of a bash script for rerolling a migration from scratch in case of configuration change.

A lightweight MySQL monitoring on Ubuntu

Submitted by christophe on Fri, 01/04/2016 - 16:47

In some situations, you just need a fast way to monitor MySQL and restart your service asap in case of crash. Neither a production script nor a replacement for a real server monitoring tool (like New Relic, ...) with IP fail over, but a basic solution when you just provisioned a low budget VPS with a very limited setup and still want to get a feedback for further logs details.

1) Install mailutils

It will be necessary to send an e-mail alert.

apt-get install mailutils

Kickoff a Drupal 8 development environment

Submitted by christophe on Mon, 08/02/2016 - 10:01

Drupal 8 evolves quickly, and it's easy to get lost amongst the several documentations that have been written since the beta releases, Drush and PHP version needs upgrade. Some things that I have learned.

Option 1 : No VM setup on Mac OSX, via Homebrew

Okay, VM's are easier to maintain solutions, but in some situations you just don't have enough RAM for having Virtualbox running all the time.