Drupal 8 provides an interface to interact with the configuration. You can import, export, and synchronize through the administrative interface by navigating to Configuration
and then Configuration synchronization
from the menu bar.
The first tab, labeled Synchronize
, allows you to see the state of any configuration that has been exported to the filesystem and compare it to the configuration currently in the database. Each configuration item that contains a difference is listed, along with a button to show the differences.
Synchronize configuration screen
Clicking on the View differences
button opens up a dialog that shows the differences between the configuration in the synchronization directory and what is in the database.
Differences dialog
Once you have verified each change, you can click the button labeled Import all
to set the current database configuration to the files in the synchronization directory.