In this chapter we successfully installed the Features module and built a custom feature that packages our entire Fire Department content type configuration. We showed how to download and extract our module code, and then enable our custom feature and place it into Default status.
We added a new field and tweaked some of our content type's existing configuration to test our new feature module and place it into an overridden state. Then we recreated our feature module with the new components and updated configuration and replaced our existing module files with the new ones.
Finally we took our feature module and deployed it to another Drupal website to show that we can easily take our content type and its configuration from our local development site to another Drupal site.
In the next chapter we're going to look at another powerful module, Migrate, which can be used to migrate content from earlier versions of a Drupal site (Drupal 6 to a Drupal 7 website); or to migrate content from...