Acquia Starter Kit

An opinionated implementation of Drupal for running low code websites in the Acquia platform.

Setup

WARNING: This repository is only for contributing to Acquia Starter Kit Recipes. Do not use it to build sites.

If you want to give Acquia Starter Kit Recipes a try, don't use this repository. Instead, do the following:

1. Install DDEV according to its documentation.
2. Clone Acquia Starter Kit Recipes's current development repository:

   git clone https://git.drupalcode.org/project/acquia_starterkits.git acquia_starterkits

3. CD to project:

   cd acquia_starterkits

4. Start ddev:

   ddev start

That's it! DDEV will automatically configure everything.

Installation of Acquia Starter Kit Recipes

1. Install dependencies:

   ddev composer install

2. Install with Community recipe:

   ddev drush site:install recipes/acquia_starterkit_community

3. Apply content model recipe as per your need. For example, to apply the page content type:

   ddev drush recipe recipes/acquia_starterkit_page

4. Apply media model recipe as per your need. For example, to apply the image media type:

   ddev drush recipe recipes/acquia_starterkit_image

5. To validate with demo content apply the demo content recipe:

   ddev drush recipe recipes/acquia_starterkit_starter

6. Run ddev launch to open the site in your browser.

Documentation

User-facing documentation for Acquia Drupal Starter Kit recipes will be available on Acquia's documentation website (coming soon).

Releases

See release notes (coming soon).

Contributing to Acquia Starter Kit Recipes

Like all open source software, you are permitted and encouraged to extend Acquia Starter Kit Recipes as much as you like - via version control and build systems you maintain.

We accept suggestions for Acquia Starter Kit Recipes through
drupal.org issue queue. You may submit patches through our issue queue on Drupal.org.

License

Copyright (C) 2025 Acquia, Inc.

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 as published by the Free Software Foundation.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.