condurachi.ro
AboutBlog
All pages

The Factory & The Assembly Line: A High-Performance Drupal CI/CD Pipeline for Acquia and Azure DevOps

A two-pipeline "Factory & Assembly Line" architecture for high-speed, reliable Drupal CI/CD in Azure DevOps with a Locked Box Docker strategy.

Series Index

  1. Introduction (this article)
  2. Core Concept 1: The Locked Box
  3. Core Concept 2: Factory & Assembly Line
  4. Pipeline A: The Factory
  5. Pipeline B: The Assembly Line
  6. The Build Stage
  7. The Deploy Stage
  8. Triggering PR Builds
  9. Conclusion

The perfect pipeline balances reliability and speed.

  • Reliable — specific PHP version, exact extensions, same tools every time.
  • Fast — developer feedback in minutes, not hours.

This guide details a best-of-both-worlds architecture: a Locked Box Docker image for reliability, split into Factory + Assembly Line for speed.