Deploy & Operate

Shipping is half the job. This section covers taking a Drupal 11 site from your machine to production and keeping it fast, secure, and current: a repeatable deployment workflow, tuning the cache layers, and the production hardening every site needs.

Deployment workflowA repeatable deploy: Composer-managed builds, config import, database updates, and the order of operations that never corrupts a site.

Performance and cachingPage cache, dynamic page cache, and BigPipe, Redis as a cache backend, and finding what's slow before your users do.

Security checklistProduction hardening: trusted host patterns, file permissions, security advisories, and the settings that must never ship as defaults.