Each Cloud IDE provides a container with useful resources and tools to help you develop your application.
Note
This page applies only to Cloud IDE. Other environments, such as Cloud Platform, Pipelines, and Cloud Platform CD, may provide different resources.
Resource limits
Cloud IDE containers provide fixed amounts of system resources.
| Resource | Limit |
|---|---|
| Disk space | 60 GiB |
| Memory | 3 GiB |
| CPU | 1.8 cores |
These limits cannot be changed and apply to all processes running inside the IDE, including the Drupal database, Drupal code, Drupal files, and IDE frontend.
Tools
Cloud IDE containers provide standard Ubuntu tooling and the following development tools:
| Resource | Version |
|---|---|
| Acquia CLI | 2.35.1 |
| Composer 2 | 2.8.3 |
| Git | 2.45.2 |
| GitHub CLI | 2.63.1 |
| GitLab CLI | 1.50.0 |
| MariaDB (MySQL) | Version 14.14 Distribution 5.7.42-46 |
| Apache2 | 2.4.41 |
| PHP | 7.4.33, 8.1.30, 8.2.25, 8.3.13 |
| Xdebug | 2.9.0, 3.0.2 |
| Drush | 8.5.0 |
| Drush Launcher | 0.10.2 |
| Theia | 1.56.0 |
| Node Version Manager (NVM) | 0.40.1 |
| Node.js | 20.18.1 |
| npm | 10.8.2 |
| Google Chrome | 131.0.6778.108 |
| Ruby Version Manager (RVM) | 1.29.12 |
| Ruby | 3.0.4, 3.1.2, 3.3.6 |
| ImageMagick | 6.9.10-23 |
| ChromeDriver | 130.0.6723.116 |
PHP extensions
Cloud IDE containers provide the same PHP extensions that Cloud Next provides.
Theia plugins
Cloud IDE provides Theia plugins that can be configured using the options provided in ~/.theia/settings.json.
For example, the PHP_CodeSniffer (phpcs) plugin provides the following configuration options:
Managing your services
Users of Cloud IDE can manage services in the container using the following commands:
| Command | Description |
|---|---|
acli ide:service-start $SERVICE | Starts the service, if it wasn’t running before. |
acli ide:service-stop $SERVICE | Stops the service, if it was running before. |
acli ide:service-restart $SERVICE | Restarts the service. |
Note
Cloud IDE users do not have access to the sudo or root user.
Apache web server resources
Apache and PHP are enabled in your container. Your container serves files from the /home/ide/project/docroot directory. Your Apache access file and PHP error log files are available in the /var/log/apache2/ directory.
Although users can install packages, change system settings, and restart services, these changes aren’t guaranteed to persist.
Altering Apache configuration
To change default options in Apache or create new virtual hosts, you can create and change files in the /home/ide/configs/apache2/ directory. After creating or modifying any Apache configuration file, you must restart the apache2 service by running the following command:
acli ide:service-restart apache