Overview
The details on this page represents the goal, activities, deliverables and resources for conducting a deployment as part of a site migration project.
The deployment is step 21 of a 24 step project delivery process Salsa has designed for migrating (or upgrading) sites from a legacy or proprietary CMS to Drupal 9.
An overview of the entire process can be found here: Drupal 9 site migration project delivery blueprint.
Stage
5: Go live
Goal
Manage the transition from source CMS site to Drupal 9 site
Activities
Decision on go/no-go based on validation exercises
Manage cut-over process with GovCMS technical support team
Monitor early hours/days of production
Deliverables
Live checklist
Cutover schedule and plan
Monitoring report/meeting if/as required
Resources and templates*
Go live checklist
Cutover plan
* to be publically available by Q1 2021 to align with the GovCMS D9 roadmap. Reach out if you’d like a draft version beforehand.
