The presentation discusses deploying Joomla sites using Git as a replacement for FTP, emphasizing its advantages like distributed development and local commits. It outlines the setup and deployment process, including version tagging and rollback strategies. Additionally, it highlights the importance of planning extensions and managing upgrades effectively.

1. Deploying Joomla sites with GIT
Ashwin Date
CTO, Techjoomla
Director, Tekdi Web Solutions
@coolbung | @techjoomla
www.techjoomla.com

2. My Joomla! connection
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5-star personality on the Joomla Forum
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Started using Joomla since Mambo days
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Started on development work since Joomla 1.0

3. What is the presentation about ?
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GIT - Replacement for FTP
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Not the only way, just a guideline
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My learning on the way
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Looking out for more ideas!

4. Why GIT ?
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Distributed, unlike SVN
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Developers can work locally and commit
changes
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Finally merge remote changes with their own

5. Replacement for FTP
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Work locally and commit files
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And then commit some more
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Once happy tag your repo
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Push the tag
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Pull the tag on the remote server

6. But why GIT ?
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You overwrote my changes!
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Something happened and the site crashed!

7. Setting Up
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Plan your site
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Decide on the extensions to be used
beforehand
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Putting the entire Joomla in GIT
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Then put the extensions in
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Gives a reference – starting point

8. Working with Joomla / Extensions
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Developers can work locally and commit
changes
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Merge remote changes with their own
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Each application version is tagged
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Tags used to pull & deploy a version to
staging/production

9. Doing the Deployment
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Server has a clone of the repository
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Pull the latest changes
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Checkout the tag
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Copy tag files to httpdocs-<tag>
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Symlink your httpdocs to httpdocs-<tag>

10. Doing the Deployment
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In case of a problem, easily roll back to last
version, since each version is just a symlinked
folder
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Write a small .htversion file to your Joomla root.
Can be used to display application version

11. Managing Upgrades
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Perform upgrade on development clone
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Push updated files
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Perform the deployment as usual

12. Careful!
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Installing new extensions
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Managing configurations
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Handling database changes
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Document manual changes needed in all the
versions

13. Automation
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Script to perform deployments -
https://github.com/techjoomla/Joomla-Extensions/tree/master/scripts

14. Thank You
Ashwin Date
Twitter : @coolbung / @techjoomla
Email : ashwin@techjoomla.com
http://www.slideshare.net/coolbung