Introducing Pipelines for Acquia Site Factory

September 30, 2019 3 minute read

Meet Acquia Pipelines, a continuous delivery tool to automate development workflows for websites and applications.

Far too often when it comes to Drupal development workflows, too many organizations lack a standard process. People tend to just follow along with whatever works best for each project, leading to a haphazard organizational system that can cause stability and security issues down the road.

But you can build a more efficient and consistent development workflow with the right resources at your disposal. Acquia Pipelines, a continuous delivery tool to automate development workflows for websites and applications on Acquia Cloud Platform, can help.

With Pipelines, when you want to make a change to your Drupal application like adding a new feature or fixing a bug, a developer starts the process by writing code. When the code reaches a stable point, the developer commits the code to a repository like GitHub. Previously, when a developer committed the code to the repository, either nothing would happen to it, or it would be immediately deployed on Acquia Cloud Platform. For any process you wanted to run on that code before it was deployed, developers had to run it locally.

When using Pipelines, development teams define a consistent process for what happens to code before it's deployed. Transforming the code, validating that it’s correct, making sure it’s the code you want before deploying it to production — all of that is included. Pipelines makes sure that when anyone writes new code, they use the same process every time to test and validate the code so any errors reach developers as quickly as possible. Pipelines works with all the popular developer tools like Drush, PHPUnit, phpcs, Behat, and many more.

Until now, Acquia Pipelines was only available for Drupal applications running on the Acquia Cloud Platform. Today, Pipelines is now available to Acquia Site Factory customers. Now developers can use our purpose-built Drupal continuous integration system with Acquia Cloud Site Factory applications at no additional cost.

To get started, just contact your Acquia account manager and ask to ahve the Pipelines entitlement added to your subscription. And check out more of the must-know information on Piplelines in the FAQ section below.