Site Administration

Inspect Configuration with Drush for Drupal 8, 9, and 10

There are some administrative UI tools for managing configuration, but some tasks can only be completed with Drush. As a site administrator, you will find Drush an indispensable tool for managing configuration between instances of the same site. Furthermore, Drush includes integration with Git in certain commands, enabling you to create a configuration workflow with Drush that also uses best practices in version control.

By the end of this lesson you should be able to:

  • Get the status of a site's configuration
  • List configuration on a site
  • View configuration objects
  • Set values for a specific key inside a configuration object
  • Edit a configuration object in active configuration without needing a configuration form
  • Integrate a Git workflow with Drush