There is a number of ways to build and deploy PHP application reviewed. In particular, Symfony2 apps using Capifony.

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PHP applications*
brief introduction

2. Who am I ?
Anton Babenko
@antonbabenko
Tech lead at Zoozoo.com
Symfony2/PHP/MySQL

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Develop locally, run some tests, commit and
push code…

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Automate

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Automate and get:
● Faster development cycle
● Easier handover to new team members
● Improves quality
● Reduces errors
● Saves time
● Establish routine process which team can rely on

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What to automate:
● Dependency & configuration management
○ Using Puppet, Chef, Ansible, bash scripting
● Compilation, minification of your assets
● Running tests
● Creation of documentation and changelogs
● Packaging
● Deployment

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How to build?

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How to build? Why do you need a build tool?
● To prepare a project to act in a specific environment
Should be no room for misconfiguration
● Staging should have environment similar to
production

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Example flow:
● Get project files from VCS
● Configure
● DB Migration
● Run package managers and builders (npm, bower,
grunt)
● Upload
● Cache warmup
● Clear opcache

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Popular build & deployment tools for PHP projects:
● Bash scripting (Still hit #1)
● Apache Ant
● Phing
● Capistrano
● Fabric
● http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_build_automation_software
or use PaaS

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PHP PaaS Providers:
PagodaBox
AppFog
Heroku
fortrabbit
Engine Yard Cloud
Red Hat OpenShift Platform
dotCloud
http://www.phptherightway.com/#servers_and_deployment
AWS Elastic Beanstalk
cloudControl
Windows Azure
Zend Developer Cloud
Google App Engine
Jelastic

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● Bash scripting = be creative as you wish
● Jenkins CI + Apache Ant + jenkins-php.org = great
starting point
● Phing = “Apache Ant written in PHP”
● Capistrano
● Fabric

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● Bash scripting = be creative as you wish
● Jenkins CI + Apache Ant + jenkins-php.org = great
starting point
● Phing = “Apache Ant written in PHP”
● Capistrano = for builds and deployments
● Fabric

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Capistrano is an open source tool for running scripts on
multiple servers. It’s primary use is for easily deploying
applications.
capifony is a deployment recipes collection that works
with both symfony and Symfony2 applications.
Source: capifony.org

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# gem install hipchat newrelic_rpm
if exists?(:config_hipchat_token)
require 'hipchat/capistrano'
set :hipchat_token, "#{config_hipchat_token}"
set :hipchat_room_name, "Developers chat"
end
# Recipe:
# github.com/ekino/EkinoNewRelicBundle/blob/master/Resources/recipes/newrelic.rb
if exists?(:config_newrelic_license)
require 'new_relic/recipes'
set :newrelic_license_key, "#{config_newrelic_license}"
set :newrelic_appname, "You name it"
after "deploy", "newrelic:notice_deployment"
end
Capifony sugar (1/4):

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after "symfony:composer:install", "symfony:verify_console"
namespace :symfony do
task :verify_console do
capifony_pretty_print "--> Run app/console to verify if parameters.yml has all
required keys and application is runnable"
if capture("#{try_sudo} sh -c 'cd #{latest_release} && #{php_bin} #{symfony_console}
> /tmp/app_console_output 2>&1 ; echo $?'").to_s.strip != "0"
run "cat /tmp/app_console_output && rm -rf /tmp/app_console_output"
raise CommandError.new("There was an unrecoverable error.")
end
capifony_puts_ok
end
end
Capifony sugar (2/4):

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# Update assets_version
# Source: https://github.com/kachkaev/KachkaevAssetsVersionBundle
namespace :assets_version do
task :increment do
capifony_pretty_print "--> Increment assets_version"
run "#{try_sudo} sh -c 'cd #{latest_release} && #{php_bin} #{symfony_console}
assets_version:increment --env=#{symfony_env_prod}'"
capifony_puts_ok
end
end
Capifony sugar (3/4):

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# Run migration on one DB server instead of all:
role :web, "www1.mysite.com", "www2.mysite.com"
role :app, "www1.mysite.com", "www2.mysite.com"
role :db, "db1.mysite.com", :primary => true
role :db, "db2.mysite.com"
role :db, "db3.mysite.com"
Capifony sugar (4/4):

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Capifony questions?
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/capifony
Want something with GUI?
http://www.deployhq.com/

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Questions?
Questions?
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23. Thanks!