As I've been architecting Drupal solutions for almost ten years now, I've accumulated quite a bit of knowledge on devops best practices, which constitutes a sizeable amount of the consulting that I do. This includes documentation, configuration management, development processes and deployment processes. In this article, I'll be introducing Drupal Helpers, a collection of standard scripts and configurations that I use on all of my client projects (where applicable).

The Schema module, which I am now maintaining, lets you compare your actual database tables against the schema that your database is supposed to match. It's a useful tool that tells you when you've got extra tables (say from a previous version of Drupal), missing tables (that were mistakenly or maliciously dropped) or mismatched tables, ones whose implementations do not match their definitions.

I've recently added a feature which provides these lists through Drush for use on the command line or in scripts.