StripeCon 2021: A Cloud-Native approach to running Silverstripe on Google Cloud Platform

4. 4 | xpon.ai © 2021 XPON Technologies AU/NZ XPON is a technology company for the next generation of marketing and customer experience (CX). An era that is richly immersive, powered by data and made intelligent with AI.

12. 12 | xpon.ai © 2021 XPON Technologies AU/NZ Managed Hosting Services ● Have a professional supporting you is great! But… ○ Reliance on 3rd party to install software packages ○ Cost / Fees ○ Support response time ○ Self-Hosting - Lot of maintenance work

14. 14 | xpon.ai © 2021 XPON Technologies AU/NZ What is Cloud Native? An approach in software development that utilizes cloud computing to “build and run scalable applications in modern, dynamic environments such as public, private and hybrid clouds”. “

17. 17 | xpon.ai © 2021 XPON Technologies AU/NZ Fully Managed Services ● Focus on using a service, not setting it up ● No server / infrastructure management ● Cloud Provider has your back: ○ Hardware Configuration ○ Scaling ○ Maintenance ○ Security Patches

18. 18 | xpon.ai © 2021 XPON Technologies AU/NZ What is Cloud Native? ● Automation ● Stateless Components ● Managed Services ● Components are separate but integrate with each other ● Only Constant is Change

25. 25 | xpon.ai © 2021 XPON Technologies AU/NZ Setting up Cloud Storage ● Create Bucket ● Create 2 new folders: ○ public/ ○ protected/ ● New Service Account ○ Give appropriate permission to read/write

27. 27 | xpon.ai © 2021 XPON Technologies AU/NZ Configure Silverstripe with Cloud Storage ● Install module: https://github.com/obj63mc/silverstripe-google- cloud-storage ● Change access for /public and /protected as per repo docs ● Environment variables: ○ GC_BUCKET_NAME ○ GC_KEY_FILE: Service Account JSON string

28. 28 | xpon.ai © 2021 XPON Technologies AU/NZ Cloud SQL ● Fully Managed Database Service ● MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQL Server ● Failover, replication and backups ● 99.95% uptime - 43s per day ● CPU / RAM / Storage / Networking Pricing

31. 31 | xpon.ai © 2021 XPON Technologies AU/NZ 1. Enable Cloud SQL API 2. Create Cloud SQL instance 3. Create a database 4. Create a database user 5. Connect Silverstripe with Cloud SQL Setting up Cloud SQL

37. 37 | xpon.ai © 2021 XPON Technologies AU/NZ Missing socket and flags parameters... Credits to https://github.com/elliot-sawyer/silverstripe-mysql-ssl for showing the workaround! Connect Silverstripe with Cloud SQL

41. 41 | xpon.ai © 2021 XPON Technologies AU/NZ Key Silverstripe Env Variables Variable Description SS_DATABASE_NAME Name of the database in Cloud SQL to use SS_DATABASE_PASSWORD Password of user to connect to Cloud SQL with SS_DATABASE_USERNAME Database user to connect to Cloud SQL with SS_DATABASE_CLASS Our custom database class SS_DATABASE_SERVER NULL SS_DATABASE_PORT 3306 DATABASE_SOCKET Custom ENV variable. The Cloud SQL database socket in format: cloudsql/[CONNECTION-NAME]

43. 43 | xpon.ai © 2021 XPON Technologies AU/NZ App Engine ● Fully Managed Serverless PaaS Offering ● Code-first Platform - Write code and deploy ● Streamline deployment ○ No servers to manually provision - app.yaml ● Simplify scalability

45. 45 | xpon.ai © 2021 XPON Technologies AU/NZ App Engine Standard vs Flexible Standard Flexible Specific versions of languages supported (PHP, Python, Java etc) Any runtime that support HTTP request No writing to local file system(exc. /tmp) No sandbox restraints No SSH Can SSH Limited 3rd party software installations Support for 3rd party binaries Pay per instance class, with automatic shutdown Pay for resource allocation per hour, no automatic shutdown All requests time out at 60 seconds Runs in a container

57. 57 | xpon.ai © 2021 XPON Technologies AU/NZ Other things to know…. ● Email - 3rd Party Services (SendGrid, Mailgun etc) ● Time in UTC - Use library like “carbon” to convert ● Logging - GCP Operations Suites + Monolog ● Versions - Delete “unnecessary” versions! ● Managing Secrets ● Just a starting point -> CDN, Cloud Functions, K8s

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