In this episode, we chat all about migrating from Drupal to Contentful with my guest Teemu Tammela, a Certified Contentful Professional, Contentful Partner and software developer.
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Questions Asked
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- Tell us about your background
- Why did you decide to migrate to Contentful from Drupal?
- What where your goals when migrating into Contentful?
- What were your responsibilities in the migration project?
- What was your biggest pain point during the migration?
- Tell us how you used the Contentful Management API during the migration
- Tell us about your migration planning.
- Did you create a new content model or migrated the current Drupal content model?
- Did you create a custom migration script or used the Contentful migration scripts?
- Tell us about the ORM library you used for mapping.
- Did you use GraphQL for any migration?
- If you used GraphQL vs REST, do you think the migration would have gone faster?
- How was your Contentful architecture different from your Drupal architecture?
- Tell us about your tech stack both for Contentful and Drupal.
- When you were migrating, did Contentful support multiple environments?
- What's the difference between the scripts you wrote for migrating and the migration scripts that Contentful offers?
- How did you use the Contentful CLI for your migration?
- Tell us about the 3 types of migrations.
- How did you migrate entry IDs?
- Tell us about your media asset migration plan.
- Are you storing your media assets in Contentful as a media type?
- Did you consider using a DAM for your assets such as Cloudinary?
- Tell us about your Drupal plugins and how did you migrate the functionality they provided into Contentful?
- Did you migrate any Drupal front end templates into Contentful?
- For those that want to migrate Drupal front end templates into Contentful, are there scripts that will do that for you?
- How did you migrate rich text fields form Drupal to Contentful?
- Did you have a rollback plan just in case the scripts failed?
- What do you wish Contentful has that you liked in Drupal?
- If you could only offer one tip for migration, what would that be?
