Hi everyone,

I have a Drupal 8.9.x site (non-Composer based) and I need to move it to Drupal 11.

My goal is to migrate:

• Content (nodes, users, taxonomy, media)
• Configuration (content types, fields, views, etc.)
• Files directory

I tried enabling:

• Migrate
• Migrate Drupal
• Migrate Plus
• Migrate Tools
• Migrate Upgrade

I also connected the Drupal 8 database using:

$databases['upgrade']['default'] = [ 'database' => 'd8_db', 'username' => 'db', 'password' => 'db', 'host' => 'db', 'driver' => 'mysql', ]; 

However, when I run:

drush migrate:status 

I do not see upgrade_d8_* migrations being generated.

So my question is:

👉 Is it possible to migrate from Drupal 8 to Drupal 11 using the Migrate module like we do for Drupal 7 → Drupal 10/11?

Or is the recommended approach to:

1. Convert the D8 site to Composer
2. Upgrade step-by-step (8 → 9 → 10 → 11)
3. Keep the same database

If migration is possible, what is the correct approach?

Thanks in advance 🙏