The world of PHP is very interesting right now and it has been catching up on best coding practices. It's time we bring our deploy processes up to par with this and start using best practices for it as well. So what are the goals for it and which steps can be taken to reach them? How can we make the process fit better into the more and more Agile world we live in?

1. DEPLOYING PHP
APPLICATIONSByNiklasModess

2. WHO AM I?
@niklasmodess
codingswag.com
Freelance /consultantweb architect
Developed and deployed PHP applications for 10+ years
Currentlydevelopingmostlyin Laravel
Co-organizer of the meetup group LaravelStockholm

3. THE BOOK
https://leanpub.com/deploying-php-
applications/c/SYMFONYCAMP
$9.99 with this link ($5discount)

4. WHY AM I HERE?
To sellmybook ;)
To spread deploymentprocess awareness
Discuss goals and steps for deployment

5. WHAT I'M NOT HERE FOR
Talk aboutdeploymenttools
Talk aboutserver provisioningtools
Show you commands
Show you code
Discuss system specific things

6. WHY SHOULD WE TALK ABOUT THIS?
It's abouttime we do it
Helps our entire developmentprocess
Gain confidence as adeveloper

7. THE PHP WORLD

8. PHP: afractal of bad design
FUCK THE HATERS

9. EXCITING TIMES!
Bestpractices
Testing
Continous integration
.. and even OOP

10. BUT...
Whathappened to deploymentin allthis?

11. THE AGILE WORLD
Agile: "Characterized by quickness, lightness,
and ease of movement."

12. Stayingagile with deploymentis about
RESPONDING QUICKLY
TO FEEDBACK

13. Work in
SPRINTS
butplan for the
MARATHON

14. RELEASE CYCLES
The new version is done, ship it.
I'm done, ship it.
X amountof time has passed, ship it.
I pushed it, ship it.

15. ENVIRONMENTS

16. THE USUAL ONES
Local
Development
Staging
Production
(Testing)

17. QUESTIONS
Do we have separate environments?
Are theyrepeatable/provisioned?
Do we have abranchingstrategyfor our version control?
Stagingas closetoproductionas possible?

18. PITFALL #1
This:
{
id:1
}
Can turn into this:
{
id:"1"
}

19. PITFALL #2
PascalCasedClass.php
classPascalCasedClass{}
index.php
require_once('Pascalcasedclass.php');
Willonlywork in enviromentthathandles its file system case
insensitive.

20. I LIKE DIVERSITY
As longas itstays outof mysoftware environments

21. THE STORY ABOUT AN APPLICATION
.. come up with an idea
.. do some wireframes
.. code, code, code
.. celebrate finishingcode
.. shit, we have to deployit
.. well, doit quicklythen

22. The deploymentprocess is almostalways
AD HOC
Areaction to your applications state
"Ducttape deployment""

23. AUTOMATE
EVERYTHING!

24. MANUL STEPS
Are the rootof allevil

25. AN EXAMPLE OF A MANUAL STEP
classAssets
{
constREVISION=14;
}
<linkrel="stylesheet"href="style.css?v=<?=Assets::REVISION?>"type="text/css">

26. THE GOALS
In anice and ordered list

27. WE WANT IT TO BE
Automated
Responsive
Atomic
Reversible
Simple
Fast
Agnostic

28. ROLLBACKS
Are justas important, and should complywith the goals

29. MATURITY
Aquite naturalprocess (hopefully)

30. THE STEPS
Documentation
Automation
Verification
Notification
Tests
Tools
Monitoring

31. WHAT COULD IT TAKE CARE OF?
Runningtests
Database migrations
Cache bust&warm up
Dependencies
Static assets/contents
Generate documentation
Restartservices
Restartqueues /workers
Symlink folders
... any tool with acli or api

32. THANK YOU!
QUESTIONS?