Tide Marina

Drupal integrations and dependency management for the Tide Marina hosting platform.

Development

Develop and validate this module on the host. It requires PHP 8.3, Composer, and the PHP extensions declared in composer.json: gd, igbinary, redis, pdo_mysql, zip, and zlib.

Getting started

Install the module dependencies and the pinned development tools:

composer install --prefer-dist --no-progress --no-interaction
composer --working-dir=tools install --prefer-dist --no-progress --no-interaction

Validating a build

Run the same Composer validation and dependency installation performed by CI:

composer validate
composer install --prefer-dist --no-progress --no-interaction

Run coding-standard checks with:

tools/vendor/bin/phpcs --standard=phpcs.xml.dist

Features

• Ensures dependencies required for the Tide Marina hosting platform are installed.
• Enforces runtime container requirements (PHP 8.3 and required PHP extensions).
• Provides the optional marina_cf_cachetags module. It sends cacheable responses' Drupal cache tags in the x-amz-meta-cache-tag header and invalidates those tags through the local CloudFront SigV4 sidecar.
• Automatically handles migration tasks from legacy Section.io purgers to the Marina CloudFront integration upon module installation (tide_marina_install()).

CloudFront cache tags

Enable the submodule with:

drush en marina_cf_cachetags

On install it registers Purge's HTTP bundled purger (instance marina_cf_cachetags), enables the coretags queuer and the lateruntime processor, and empties the purge queue so nothing queued for a previous purger lingers.

Response header. Cacheable responses carry x-amz-meta-cache-tag, a comma-separated list of the response's Drupal cache tags hashed with xxHash3 and truncated to 6 hex characters (node:203 → # + first 6 chars of hash('xxh3', 'node:203')). Tags matching the purge_queuer_coretags blacklist are dropped, entity tags are listed first, and the list is capped at the 50 tags CloudFront stores per object. Hashing keeps the header far below CloudFront's 1,783-character limit.

Invalidation. The purger sends a POST to http://localhost:8083/prod/cache-invalidation/{project}/{environment} (the platform's SigV4 sidecar) with a JSON body of the same hashes, each prefixed with tag::

{"tagsCsv":"tag:b9917e,tag:4c1d2a"}

The cache invalidation API rewrites tag:<hash> to #<hash>, which is CloudFront's tag-invalidation syntax. Both sides must use the same hash, so they share the marina_cf_cachetags.cache_tags_hash service. Override marina_cf_cachetags.cache_tag_filter or marina_cf_cachetags.cache_tag_prioritizer in a site's services.yml to change which tags are kept and in what order.

Site configuration. Override the purger's path with the deployment's project and environment names (the placeholders are not substituted anywhere else), e.g. in settings.php:

$config['purge_purger_http.settings.marina_cf_cachetags']['path'] =
  sprintf('/prod/cache-invalidation/%s/%s', 'my-project', getenv('MARINA_ENVIRONMENT'));

Platform requirements. The CloudFront distribution must declare CacheTagConfig with HeaderName: x-amz-meta-cache-tag; distributions without it ignore the header and every tag invalidation is a no-op. Objects cached before CacheTagConfig is enabled carry no tags — issue one /* invalidation after enabling it.

To invalidate a tag by hand, hash it first:

aws cloudfront create-invalidation --distribution-id <id> \
  --paths "#$(php -r 'echo substr(hash("xxh3", "node:203"), 0, 6);')"

Patches

Redis

This module handles patching of the Redis module with a few key features

1. Adds support for RedisCluster client.
2. Uses the current RedisCluster upstream patch.
3. Preserves the configured TLS context during RedisCluster node discovery.