Connect Cloud IDE to GitHub/Bitbucket/Others

Goal

Connect Cloud IDE to a non-Acquia Git repository.

Prerequisites

• Access to Cloud IDE

Overview

When you pull your application into Acquia Cloud IDE, we automatically copy your Acquia-hosted codebase, database and files from the Acquia Cloud Platform (via the Cloud Platform API) so that you can start developing Drupal right away.

And of course, you can easily connect your Cloud IDE to Acquia Code Studio with just a few extra commands.

But what if you have a different developer workflow? If you use GitHub, GitLab or Bitbucket, or even another third part source code management service, we’ve got you covered. Setup is straight forward. By simply using Git and SSH, you can quickly set up a connection to any source code management service, and Acquia CLI will make it easy.

1. Pulling a non-Acquia hosted Git repository into Cloud IDE

   Connecting Cloud IDE to a non-Acquia hosted Git repository is easy. But before you can pull your code, Cloud IDE must be granted the permissions to connect to the remote server, so operations remain secure at all times.

   At a high level this is how it works:

   1. Generate an SSH key in Cloud IDE.
   2. Configure your code management tool by adding the public half of your new SSH key.
   3. Clone your non-Acquia hosted repository into Cloud IDE.
   

2. Generate an SSH key in Cloud IDE

   Note

   If you’ve already set up your Cloud IDE by following the “Get Started” instructions, skip to the next step.

Additional Resources

• Cloning your application from a GitHub repository to your IDE
• Acquia Cloud IDE Documentation