Drupal 8 Development at the Speed of Lightning (& BLT)

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Johnnie Fox, CTO, Promet SourceSteve Zipfel, Drupal Solutions Architect, Promet SourceMatthew Grasmick, Senior Technical Services Manager, Acquia

Drupal 8 Development at the Speed of Lightning (& BLT)


Introductions● Matthew Grasmick

o Acquia PS, 5yrs; Drupalist, 8yrso Maintainer of BLT

● Johnnie Foxo Chief Technology Officer at Promet Source; Drupalist, 7yrs

● Steve Zipfelo Solutions architect at Promet Source; Drupalist, 7yrs

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Itinerary

● Overview of BLT● Overview of Lightning● Build Philosophy ● Case Study

o The BLT way: South Florida Water Management● Key Takeaways


BLT’s Genesis:Professional Services Experience


We started from scratchfor every project


Snowflakes● Every project is unique.

o Difficult to support and maintain.o Collaboration & handoffs are messy. o Resources are not interchangeable.

● Risks?o Wasted time. o Missed deadlines. o Smaller margins.o Lower value. o Staff burnout.


Let’s try something different


Use one templateand one set of tools

for every project.


Acquia Build & Launch Tools (BLT)

● Standardized template for Drupal 8 sites

● Set of tools for building, testing, deploying

● Commands for automating usage of those tools


BLT is part of your codebase● Like a module

– Install a particular version– Update hooks required between versions

● Not an application– Not installed at system-level


Acquia Lightning


Acquia Lightning

– A Drupal 8 distribution maintained by Acquia– Enable developers to build great enterprise authoring

experiences for their editorial teams with D8


Acquia Lightning

● Layouto Built on Panels, Panels IPE, & Panelizer

● Mediao Built with Media Entity, Entity Browser, Entity Embed

● Workflowo Built on Workbench Moderation, Scheduled Updates

● Previewo Multiversion, Workspace, Replicationo Experimental - Stable Q3 2017


It’s business time


Johnnie Fox - Business


Build Philosophy

– https://12factor.net/


Continuous Integration Principles


Drupal 7 Build Framework


Downsides of Custom Framework

Time + Money + Effort

Lack of Community Support + New Ideas


South Florida Water Management


Drupal 8

Accessible

6 Month Timeline

Optimized Performance

Acquia Hosting

South Florida Water Management


Steve Zipfel - Development


Pre-defined build process - Hit the ground running.

BLT and Promet Source: A perfect match.


Development Team1 Architect / Developer1 Drupal Developer1 Themer

100% Remote across different continents and timezones

Quick deliveryDrupal 8Community


Makes complex things simple

– Create an entire project– Create and boot a VM– Run every test– Validate all of your code– Sync environments– Deploy to cloud

Do the following tasks with a single command:


Plus!– Built in tests with BHAT and PHPUNIT so you’re not starting from scratch:– Built in code validation tools PHP Code Sniffer and Linting


Development Processesvagrant upvagrant sshcd /var/www/sites/website_root

For more: http://blt.readthedocs.io/en/8.x/readme/onboarding/

Run blt local:setup to rebuild the codebase and reinstall your Drupal site (most commonly used early in development).

Run blt local:refresh to rebuild the codebase, import a fresh DB from a remote environment, and run schema/configuration updates (most commonly used later in development).

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Software Updates


BLT uses Composer

‘Composer update’ updates the composer.lock file which will update modules, drupal core and libraries on build

# update blt and its dependenciescomposer update acquia/blt --with-dependencies# Remove deprecated files.blt cleanup# update all dependencies, in case BLT modified your composer.json during previous update.composer update


Joint development with client and seamless handoff

Existing Documentation andExisting, well defined process


Deployment build - Just the (Arti)facts

./blt.sh deploy -Ddeploy.commitMsg='REPO-NAME-XXX: The commit message.' -Ddeploy.branch='develop-build-

repo-name-xxx'

XXX = the issue number.


What is an artifact?

Artifacts are ONLY the items required for running the website.

What types of things aren’t artifacts?

● CHANGELOG.txt● Vagrantfile

And many other tools required for development but not for running the website


Artifacts vs Full Dev Code.


Seamless integration with Acquia Cloud– Push a deploy branch to the Acquia git repository– Select the branch from the UI to deploy the new

branch


Give back!

BLT is open source so you can contribute to the BLT project.

http://blt.readthedocs.io/en/8.x/readme/dev-workflow/


Resources● http://blt.readthedocs● https://github.com/acquia/blt● https://dev.acquia.com/blog/introducing-acquia-blt-a-development-tool-for-generating

-new-drupal-8-projects/25/05/2016/10486● https://dev.acquia.com/blog/deploying-to-acquia-cloud-with-blt/05/07/2016/15781

http://blt.readthedocs/

https://github.com/acquia/blt

https://dev.acquia.com/blog/introducing-acquia-blt-a-development-tool-for-generating-new-drupal-8-projects/25/05/2016/10486

https://dev.acquia.com/blog/introducing-acquia-blt-a-development-tool-for-generating-new-drupal-8-projects/25/05/2016/10486

https://dev.acquia.com/blog/deploying-to-acquia-cloud-with-blt/05/07/2016/15781


Project Closeout


South Florida Water District


South Florida Water District– 1st Project risk register

to contain hurricane risk

– 1st project impacted by hurricane


Project results


Key Take Aways– Low Set up time– Initial investment to get started is low– Lightning greatly reduced module selection time


Questions?


Thank You