A key component to manage a Drupal website is configuration integrity. A key part of maintaining this integrity is ensuring that your configuration changes that are made in development are pushed upstream to your production environments. Maintaining configuration changes by manually exporting and importing through the user interface can be difficult and does not provide a way to track what has or has not been exported or imported. At the same time, manually writing module hooks to manipulate the configuration can be time consuming. Luckily, the configuration management solution provides you with the ability to export and import the entire site's configuration.
A site export can only be imported into another copy of itself. This allows you to export your local development environment's configuration and bring it to staging or production without modifying the content or the database directly.
In this recipe, we will export the development site's complete configuration...