E13 | Migrating from Drupal to Contentful | Teemu Tammela

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. ******************************* Questions Asked ******************************* 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?