After your new project works locally, review the Acquia BLT documentation by role to learn how to perform common project tasks and integrate with third party tools.
Here are tasks that are typically performed at this stage:
Initialize continuous integration (CI). You can use one of the following commands, based on your CI tooling:
blt recipes:ci:pipelines:init
blt recipes:ci:travis:init
Push to your upstream repository using the following Git commands:
git add -A
git commit -m 'My new project is great.'
git remote add origin [something]
git push origin
Ensure that you have entered a value for git.remotes in the
blt/blt.yml file:
git:
remotes:
- [email protected]:bolt8.git
Create and deploy an artifact.
blt artifact:deploy
Acquia BLT includes additional commonly used commands, as follows:
| Command | Description |
|---|---|
blt |
List targets. |
blt validate |
Validate code using commands that include phpcs, php lint, and
composer validate. |
blt tests:phpunit:run |
Run phpunit tests. |
blt tests:behat:run |
SSH into a virtual machine and run Behat tests. |
blt doctor |
Diagnose issues with Acquia BLT. |
composer require drupal/ctools:^8.3.0 |
Download and require a new project. |
blt artifact:build |
Build a deployment artifact. |
blt artifact:deploy |
Build an artifact and deploy it to git.remotes. |
composer update acquia/blt --with-dependencies |
Update Acquia BLT. |
A common practice in Drupal is to add settings to the settings.php file to
control things like cache backends, set site variables, or other tasks which
do need a specific module. Acquia BLT provides two mechanisms to add settings
to your settings.php file:
docroot/sites directory for
inclusion in all websites in the codebase.includes.settings.php in the
settings directory of an individual website (such as
docroot/sites/{site-name}/settings/includes.settings.php).Both mechanisms allow settings to be overridden by local.settings.php, to
support local development.
Important
When using Acquia BLT, do not add settings directly to settings.php.
This is also the case with Site Factory, which will ignore settings directly
added to settings.php.
The first level of Acquia BLT’s settings management is the
blt.settings.php file. When websites are created, Acquia BLT adds a
require line to the standard settings.php file, which includes the
blt.settings.php file from Acquia BLT’s location in the vendor directory.
This file then controls the inclusion of other settings files in a hierarchy.
The full hierarchy of settings files used by Acquia BLT appears similar to
the following:
sites/{site-name}/settings.php
|
---- blt.settings.php
|
---- sites/settings/*.settings.php
|
---- sites/{site-name}/settings/includes.settings.php
| |
| ---- foo.settings.php
| ---- bar.settings.php
| ---- ....
|
---- sites/{site-name}/settings/local.settings.php
Important
Do not edit the blt.settings.php file in the vendor directory. If you
do, the next time composer update or install runs, your changes
may be lost. Instead, use one of the following mechanisms:
Global settings for the codebase
To allow settings to be made once and applied to all sites in a
codebase, Acquia BLT globs the docroot/sites/settings directory to
find all files matching a *.settings.php format, and then adds them
using PHP require statements.
As not all projects will need additional global settings, Acquia BLT
initially deploys a default.global.settings.php file into the
docroot/sites/settings directory. To make use of this file, rename
the file to global.settings.php, and then add settings or required
files as needed.
Per website
On a per-website basis, Acquia BLT uses an includes.settings.php
file in the settings directory of each individual website. Any
settings made in that file, or other files required into it, will be
added to the settings for that particular website only.
As not all projects require additional includes, Acquia BLT initially
deploys a default.includes.settings.php file into the website’s
docroot/sites/{site_name}/settings directory. To make use of this
file, rename it to includes.settings.php, and then add the path to
the file or files to be added.
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