Essential Guide to Running Your First Drupal Migration

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Michael Anello of DrupalEasy has provided a detailed guide on setting up and running a first migration in Drupal, a vital skill for developers in the field. The guide emphasizes the importance of understanding the setup process, which is often overlooked in other resources. Michael advocates using DDEV as a local development environment and details the differences between configuration and plugin migrations, favoring configuration entities. 

The tutorial includes a step-by-step process for importing data from a Drupal 7 site to a Drupal 10 site, highlighting the necessary modules, database setup, and custom module creation. Michael's instructions cover essential commands for running and managing migrations, providing a solid foundation for developers to build upon. He suggests exploring additional migrations and creating custom process plugins for more advanced learning, promoting further education through DrupalEasy's Professional Module Development course

Reference: Getting ready to run your first migration, DrupalEasy (23 July 2024)

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