Resources in Cloud IDE¶

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

Container resources
Tools
Plugins
Database resources
Apache web server resources

Note

For information about the software resources provided with Cloud Platform applications, see Cloud Platform technology platform and supported software. For information about containers on Cloud Platform, see Resources for containers and pipelines jobs.
Cloud IDE does not support memcache.

Container resources¶

Cloud IDE provides Ubuntu containers with a 60 GB disk.

Tools¶

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

Resource	Version
Acquia CLI	1.19.0
Composer 2	2.1.14
Composer 1	1.10.23
GitHub CLI	2.2.0
Git	2.34.1
MariaDB (MySQL)	Version 14.14 Distribution 5.7.34
Apache2	2.4.18
PHP	7.4.24, 8.0.11
Xdebug	2.7.0beta1
Drush	8.4.6
Theia	1.13.0
Node Version Manager (NVM)	0.39.0
Node.js	12.22.1
npm	6.14.12
Google Chrome	96.0.4664.45
Ruby Version Manager (RVM)	1.29.12
Ruby	2.7.4, 3.0.2
Imagemagick	6.8.9–9
ChromeDriver	96.0.4664.45

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
`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 don’t have access to sudo or root user.

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 by running the following command:

acli ide:service-restart mysql

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

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