A decade of deferred maintenance
Acquia Pipelines was a FedRAMP-compliant CI/CD tool that many Site Factory customers depended on. Its standalone frontend had gone nearly a decade without sustained maintenance, remained on Angular 4, and carried multiple critical CVEs. The product needed a substantial rebuild to remain secure and supportable.
Rebuilding Pipelines in Cloud Platform
I recommended rebuilding the Pipelines experience inside Cloud Platform and retiring only the standalone application around it. The work included an Angular 4 to 14 migration, remediation of the critical CVEs, replacement of the legacy component library with ADS, and an updated design for key pages.
The new implementation preserved the product’s capabilities within the surface customers already used. It also inherited Cloud Platform’s authentication, avoiding a separate Acquia ID integration and removing another long-term maintenance boundary.
Continuity through the migration
The migration was a one-way move into Cloud Platform, planned so compliant CI/CD remained available while the rebuilt experience came online. Customers retained the Pipelines workflows they relied on, now within a maintained and more consistent product surface.
The important architectural decision was not the framework upgrade by itself. It was separating the experience worth preserving from the standalone application boundary that no longer served it.