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Sooner or later every developer faces this scary (actually, not) process called “Migration”. If you’re one of them, you must have heard about one of the most outstanding and solid modules for Drupal 7: <a href="https://www.drupal.org/project/migrate" target="_blank">Migrate</a>. Actually, this is not even the module, it’s a migration framework that provides a wonderful API and a variety of powerful tools for data migration into Drupal from various sources. From my point of view, the existence of such modules is very important for the Drupal community and the Drupal ecosystem, because it provides an easy way to move projects from another CMS or from any other frameworks to Drupal. Thus we can offer our client a relatively cheap way to change their system in favor of Drupal. In this article, you’ll read how to use <strong>Migrate API</strong> in Drupal 8 and we’ll build a simple module to execute the migration from Drupal 7 to <strong>Drupal 8</strong>.