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About Me

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Outline

• Introduction
• The old BLT
• The new BLT
• Does it work?

What is BLT?

• BLT: Build and Launch Tool
• https://docs.acquia.com/blt/
• https://github.com/acquia/blt

Features

• Integration with Acquia Cloud (AC) and Site Factory (ACSF)
• Automatic code linting/validation
• Set up Behat testing
• Accumulated wisdom of Acquia Professional Services (PS) team

What’s Not to Like?

• pronounced “bloat”?
• All your base are belong to us!
• L’etat, c’est moi!

composer create-project \
    --no-interaction \
    acquia/blt-project my-project

• Manage settings.php and includes
• Manage Config Split

Compatibility Chart

Modular Design

composer require …

• acquia/blt
• acquia/blt-acsf
• acquia/blt-behat
• acquia/blt-vm
• acquia/blt-phpcs
• acquia/blt-simplesamlphp
• acquia/blt-probo
• acquia/blt-tugboat

WIP

• BLT 12 has a full release; latest is 12.2.0
• None of the plugins has a release yet
• Some of the plugins are broken
• Some of the plugins are partially separated

Recent bug reports

• BLT 12 overwrites drush site alias default.site.yml
• BLT 12 checks isAcsfInited() instead of isAcsfEnv() in default.local.settings.php
• Do not assume Drupal VM is in use because config file is there
• Multisite recipe should use actual site URL in drush alias
• Provide an option to skip web driver launching (blt-behat)

Yes, it works!

I had to fix most of those bugs myself. There is at least one that I am still working around, and one where my fix was rejected.

My colleague Marco Villegas reported and fixed the blt-behat bug.

We have Drupal 9 test sites running on Site Factory (ACSF).

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