Deployment Strategies: Managing code, content, and configurations by Howard Tyson and Jody Hamilton

Most development shops make use of a "development/staging/production" server model. Maintaining code, content, and configurations across multiple environments can be a bit tricky, particularly since drupal doesn't currently provide any native means to separate configuration from content. This session would discuss the various methods to make sure that your development server looks like your production server. We will touch on version control, the backup and migrate module, and the features module, as well as integrating a deployment management software such as hudson or aegir, and how to scale these solutions from a small application to a large enterprise server architecture.