Resources in Cloud IDE¶

Cloud IDE provides containers with useful resources and tools, which you can use to develop your application.

Container resources
Tools
Database resources
Apache web server resources

Note

For information about the software resources included with Cloud Platform applications, see Cloud Platform technology platform and supported software. For information about containers on the Cloud Platform, see Resources for containers and pipelines jobs.

Container resources¶

Cloud IDE provides an Ubuntu 16.04 container with the following resource limits:

4 GB of memory
2 CPUs
60 GB of disk space

Tools¶

Containers in Cloud IDE include both standard Linux tooling and the following development tools:

Resource	Version
Acquia CLI	1.4.0
Composer 2	2.0.8
Composer 1	1.10.19
Github CLI	1.4.0
Git	2.29.0
MariaDB (MySQL)	Version 14.14 Distribution 5.7.31
Apache2	2.4.18
PHP	7.3.21, 7.4.9
Drush	8.4.5
Theia	1.2.0
Node Version Manager (NVM)	0.34.0
Node.js	11.13.0
npm	6.7.0
Google Chrome	87.0.4280.141
Ruby Version Manager (RVM)	1.29.11
Ruby	2.7.1
Imagemagick	6.8.9–9

Plugins¶

Cloud IDE includes configurable plugins such as phpcs which provides several configuration options found in ~/.theia/settings.json:

phpcs.enable: Enables and disables the phpcs extension. The default value is true.
phpcs.standard: Stores the phpcs coding standard. The default value is Drupal. Other available options:
- Squiz
- PEAR
- Zend
- PSR2
- PSR1
- PSR12
- MySource
- Coder

Managing your services¶

Users of Cloud IDE can manage services in the container using the following commands:

Command	Description
`supervisorctl start $SERVICE`	Starts the service, if it wasn’t running before.
`supervisorctl stop $SERVICE`	Stops the service, if it was running before.
`supervisorctl restart $SERVICE`	Restarts the service.
`supervisorctl status $SERVICE`	Prints all the service’s status information.

Database resources¶

The provided version of MySQL runs on port 3306 in Cloud IDE, and has a database with the following details:

Database name: drupal
User: drupal
Password: drupal

You can review MySQL log files in the /var/log/mysql directory.

Altering database configuration¶

You can change options and variables in MySQL by creating custom MySQL configuration files in the /home/ide/configs/mysql/ directory. After creating or modifying the MySQL configuration file, restart the database service with the command supervisorctl restart mysql.

Important

Don’t change files in the /etc/mysql directory, as Dev Studio removes any changes to files in that directory when the integrated development environment restarts.

Apache web server resources¶

Apache and PHP are enabled in your container. Your container serves files from the /home/ide/project/docroot directory, and your Apache 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:

supervisorctl restart apache2

Important

Don’t change files in the /etc/apache2/ directory, as Dev Studio removes any changes to files in that directory when the integrated development environment restarts.

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