Drupal foundation
Modern Drupal 11 on a Composer project with tuned settings, module and theme scaffolds, and admin modules ready to go.
Production-grade Drupal, since 2017
Ship Drupal projects on solid ground.
Vortex is a Drupal project template that hands your team a complete, production-ready foundation - containerized local development, automated testing, CI/CD pipelines, and hosting integrations - all pre-configured and continuously tested.
The installer scaffolds your whole project - structure, tooling, CI, and hosting - in one run.
Install in one command
$ curl -SsL https://www.vortextemplate.com/install > installer.php && php installer.php
One command. PHP 8.3+. No global installs.
2017
In production since
Monthly
Releases shipped
130+
Scenarios tested per change
GPL-3.0
Free & open source
What's inside
Everything a Drupal team needs, pre-wired
A complete foundation for building and deploying Drupal sites - so your team focuses on features, not infrastructure.
Local development
A containerized Docker Compose stack - Nginx, PHP, MariaDB, Redis, Solr, ClamAV - driven by simple Ahoy commands.
Continuous integration
Identical GitHub Actions and CircleCI pipelines: download the database, build and test a real site, then deploy.
Hosting integrations
First-class Acquia and Lagoon support with database and file syncing, deployments, and preview environments.
Quality & testing
PHPCS, PHPStan, Rector, ESLint, PHPUnit, and Behat - pre-configured and wired straight into CI.
AI-ready
Agent-agnostic AGENTS.md and CLAUDE.md give coding agents the context to contribute from the very first session.
Automations
Renovate dependency updates, deploy notifications for Slack, Jira, New Relic and email, plus workflow tooling.
Documentation
Centralized docs at vortextemplate.com, plus a scaffold for your own project-specific documentation.
How it fits together
Template + Documentation + Installer
Three parts that keep every Vortex project consistent - and easy to keep up to date.
Template
A pre-configured Drupal project - structure, tools, Docker, CI, and hosting - ready to build on.
Documentation
Centralized, always-current guidance for every Vortex-onboarded project and team.
Installer
A standalone CLI that scaffolds your project and updates it to the latest Vortex version.
Built to last
Why teams choose Vortex
Production-ready from day one
Skip weeks of setup. Start from a battle-tested foundation refined across hundreds of real projects.
Built for teams
The same tools, commands, and workflows everywhere, so anyone can move between projects without missing a beat.
Continuously tested
Every change is verified across many scenarios, making upgrades safe, boring, and predictable.
Get going
Up and running in three steps
1
Run the installer
Pull and run the installer with a single command - no global tooling required.
$ curl -SsL https://www.vortextemplate.com/install > installer.php && php installer.php2
Answer a few prompts
Name your site and choose the integrations you need - hosting, CI, services, and more.
3
Build and go
Spin up the whole stack. Your fully provisioned site is ready to develop.
$ ahoy buildStart your next Drupal project on solid ground.
Free, open source, and trusted in production across government, healthcare, education, and finance.
$ curl -SsL https://www.vortextemplate.com/install > installer.php && php installer.php