Introducing BLT - A Tool for Building, Testing, and Launching Drupal Sites

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rlnorthcutt

Come learn about Acquia BLT - a development tool for generating new Drupal projects using a template derived from our Professional Services' best practices.

We began building and using BLT internally over the past year. Our goal was to codify a set of tools and conventions that would allow us to:

  • Easily implement Automated Testing, Continuous Integration & Deployment
  • Reduce project setup time and developer onboarding time
  • Improve the quality of our sites through enforcement of best practices

After implementing BLT on dozens of projects, Acquia now has a stable and powerful tool that measurably improves our project quality and velocity. Using it allows us to effectively lower the bar for creating enterprise-ready Drupal sites, and affords us the time (and luxury) of tackling the more interesting challenges of building Drupal sites.

BLT is now available for anyone to use - Acquia has made the Drupal 8 version open source on GitHub (https://github.com/acquia/blt)

What we'll cover in this session:

  • Why use CI/DevOps/CD tools?
  • What does BLT provide for me?
  • What is BLT?
  • How do I create a new project with BLT?
  • How do I deploy a project with BLT?
  • How can I get started?

This session requires a little bit of technical context - you should be comfortable with, or at least open to trying, some command line tools.

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Session Track

Coding and Development

Experience Level

Intermediate

Drupal Version