Drupal 8 has arrived and everyone wants it now - or yesterday, for that matter. As developers, we are often working on tight deadlines and projects that require rapid development. Adding testing to your deployment cycle doesn’t have to be a question of additional cost versus code quality. Join us on February 1st as the Promet Source development team, along with Acquia’s Matt Grasmick walks through how you can rapidly set up, test, and deploy a D8 build with the help of Acquia Lightning and BLT. In this Tech Talk, we’ll navigate you through how following a prescribed process with Lightning and BLT can help you: -Rapidly deploy sites on D8 -Automate testing -Overcome the challenges of joint development and remote teams with source control -Decrease development time and increase quality -Create an environment your clients will love working in - from developers to content editors

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Johnnie Fox, CTO, Promet Source
Steve Zipfel, Drupal Solutions Architect, Promet Source
Matthew Grasmick, Senior Technical Services Manager, Acquia
Drupal 8 Development at the
Speed of Lightning (& BLT)

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Introductions
● Matthew Grasmick
o Acquia PS, 5yrs; Drupalist, 8yrs
o Maintainer of BLT
● Johnnie Fox
o Chief Technology Officer at Promet Source; Drupalist, 7yrs
● Steve Zipfel
o Solutions architect at Promet Source; Drupalist, 7yrs

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Itinerary
● Overview of BLT
● Overview of Lightning
● Build Philosophy
● Case Study
o The BLT way: South Florida Water Management
● Key Takeaways

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BLT’s Genesis:
Professional Services Experience

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We started from scratch
for every project

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Snowflakes
● Every project is unique.
o Difficult to support and maintain.
o Collaboration & handoffs are messy.
o Resources are not interchangeable.
● Risks?
o Wasted time.
o Missed deadlines.
o Smaller margins.
o Lower value.
o Staff burnout.

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Let’s try something different

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Use one template
and one set of tools
for every project.

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Acquia Build & Launch Tools (BLT)
● Standardized template for Drupal 8 sites
● Set of tools for building, testing, deploying
● Commands for automating usage of those tools

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BLT is part of your codebase
● Like a module
– Install a particular version
– Update hooks required between versions
● Not an application
– Not installed at system-level

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Acquia Lightning

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Acquia Lightning
– A Drupal 8 distribution maintained by Acquia
– Enable developers to build great enterprise authoring experiences for
their editorial teams with D8

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Acquia Lightning
● Layout
o Built on Panels, Panels IPE, & Panelizer
● Media
o Built with Media Entity, Entity Browser, Entity Embed
● Workflow
o Built on Workbench Moderation, Scheduled Updates
● Preview
o Multiversion, Workspace, Replication
o Experimental - Stable Q3 2017

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It’s business time

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Johnnie Fox - Business

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Build Philosophy
– https://12factor.net/

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Continuous Integration Principles

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Drupal 7 Build Framework

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Downsides of Custom Framework
Time + Money + Effort
Lack of Community Support + New Ideas

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South Florida Water Management

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Drupal 8
Accessible
6 Month
Timeline
Optimized
Performance
Acquia
Hosting
South Florida Water Management

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Steve Zipfel - Development

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Pre-defined build process - Hit the ground running.
BLT and Promet Source: A perfect match.

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Development Team
1 Architect / Developer
1 Drupal Developer
1 Themer
100% Remote across different continents and timezones
Quick delivery
Drupal 8
Community

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Makes complex things simple
– Create an entire project
– Create and boot a VM
– Run every test
– Validate all of your code
– Sync environments
– Deploy to cloud
Do the following tasks with a single command:

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Plus!
– Built in tests with BHAT and PHPUNIT so you’re not starting from scratch:
– Built in code validation tools PHP Code Sniffer and Linting

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Development Processes
vagrant up
vagrant ssh
cd /var/www/sites/website_root
For more: http://blt.readthedocs.io/en/8.x/readme/onboarding/
Run blt local:setup to rebuild the codebase and reinstall your Drupal site (most commonly
used early in development).
Run blt local:refresh to rebuild the codebase, import a fresh DB from a remote environment,
and run schema/configuration updates (most commonly used later in development).

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Stay Safe!
Software Updates
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BLT uses Composer
‘Composer update’ updates the composer.lock file which will update modules,
drupal core and libraries on build
# update blt and its dependencies
composer update acquia/blt --with-dependencies
# Remove deprecated files.
blt cleanup
# update all dependencies, in case BLT modified your
composer.json during previous update.
composer update

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Joint development with client and
seamless handoff
Existing Documentation and
Existing, well defined process

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Deployment build - Just the (Arti)facts
./blt.sh deploy -Ddeploy.commitMsg='REPO-NAME-XXX: The commit message.' -Ddeploy.branch='develop-build-
repo-name-xxx'
XXX = the issue number.
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What is an artifact?
Artifacts are ONLY the items required for running the website.
What types of things aren’t artifacts?
● CHANGELOG.txt
● Vagrantfile
And many other tools required for development but not for running the
website

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Artifacts vs Full Dev Code.

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Seamless integration with Acquia Cloud
– Push a deploy branch to the Acquia git repository
– Select the branch from the UI to deploy the new branch

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Give back!
BLT is open source so you can contribute to the BLT project.
http://blt.readthedocs.io/en/8.x/readme/dev-workflow/

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Resources
● http://blt.readthedocs
● https://github.com/acquia/blt
● https://dev.acquia.com/blog/introducing-acquia-blt-a-development-tool-for-generating-
new-drupal-8-projects/25/05/2016/10486
● https://dev.acquia.com/blog/deploying-to-acquia-cloud-with-blt/05/07/2016/15781

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Project Closeout

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South Florida Water District

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South Florida Water District
– 1st Project risk register to
contain hurricane risk
– 1st project impacted by
hurricane

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Project results

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Key Take Aways
– Low Set up time
– Initial investment to get started is low
– Lightning greatly reduced module selection time

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Questions?

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Thank You