Getting Started

Requirements

Before you get started with this recipe, we assume that you have:

1. Installed Lando and gotten familiar with its basics.
2. An Acquia application either checked out locally or accessible via Acquia Cloud API.
3. Read about the various services, tooling, events and routing Lando offers.

Initializing Your Acquia Project with Lando

Lando uses a Landofile to understand your project. You can create one easily using the lando init command.

# If your Acquia code is not yet local, Lando can download it for you:
lando init --source acquia

# OR if you already have your Acquia code locally:
cd /path/to/your/acquia/repo
lando init \
  --source cwd \
  --recipe acquia

This will create a basic Landofile tailored for your Acquia application.

Quick Start Commands

Once your Landofile is created, here are the next steps:

# Start it up
lando start

# Import your database and files from Acquia
lando pull

# List information about this app.
lando info

Custom Installation

This plugin is included with Lando by default. That means if you have Lando version 3.0.8 or higher then this plugin is already installed!

However, if you would like to manually install the plugin, update it to the latest development version, or install a particular version, you can use the lando plugin-add command. For more details on how to use this command, please see the official documentation.

For example, to install the latest version of the Acquia plugin, you would run:

lando plugin-add @lando/acquia

To install a specific version, you can specify it like so:

lando plugin-add @lando/acquia@1.6.3

To update Lando and its plugins, including this one, you can use the lando update command. More information can be found in the update documentation.

lando update

You should be able to verify the plugin is installed by running lando config --path plugins and checking for @lando/acquia. This command will also show you where the plugin is being loaded from.