A presentation at Blue Conf 2019 in in Cardiff, UK by Steve McDougall
PHP MEETS DOCKER A WHALE AND AN ELEPHANT
A WHALE AND AN ELEPHANT WHO AM I? I’m Steve McDougall ‣ ‣ ‣ ‣ PHP User Group Organiser Conference Organiser Experienced Developer PHP Advocate
A MODERN WORKFLOW FOR PHP DEVELOPERS
A WHALE AND AN ELEPHANT LETS START SIMPLE At this point frameworks aren’t important For this talk I will use Laravel as it has an easy installer
A WHALE AND AN ELEPHANT INTRODUCING DOCKER There are many ways to add Docker to your PHP projects, for this talk I will be using DDEV
A WHALE AND AN ELEPHANT SET UP ENVIRONMENTS IN MINUTES; SWITCH CONTEXTS AND PROJECTS QUICKLY; SPEED YOUR TIME TO DEPLOYMENT DDEV
A WHALE AND AN ELEPHANT WHAT IS DDEV DDEV is an amazing little tool to add Docker into any PHP application, with a great command line and easy to use configuration it is my go to for containers.
A WHALE AND AN ELEPHANT LETS ADD IT TO OUR APP
WE DID IT! With one line we added Docker to out application
HOW DO WE CONFIGURE DDEV
A WHALE AND AN ELEPHANT LETS START OUR APPLICATION
ONTO CI/CD
A WHALE AND AN ELEPHANT TESTING We all know Laravel has a nice testing suite, so let’s add some very basic tests, to prove a point.
A WHALE AND AN ELEPHANT NEXT STOP: GITLAB Next stop is to get all this magic up on GitLab. We all know how git works, so fast forward a couple of minutes.
A WHALE AND AN ELEPHANT TIME TO CONFIGURE OUR SERVER
A WHALE AND AN ELEPHANT GITLAB NEEDS TO KNOW ABOUT OUR PRIVATE KEY
A WHALE AND AN ELEPHANT MAKE SURE TO ADD IT TO YOUR REPO!
A WHALE AND AN ELEPHANT CONFIGURE NGINX
ENTER ENVOY
A WHALE AND AN ELEPHANT LARAVEL ENVOY PROVIDES A CLEAN, MINIMAL SYNTAX FOR DEFINING COMMON TASKS YOU RUN ON YOUR REMOTE SERVERS. Laravel Envoy
A WHALE AND AN ELEPHANT ▸ Tasks: Tasks are commands to be ran on your remote server ▸ Stories: Stories are groups of tasks ▸ Notifications: Send notifications to Slack or Discord
A WHALE AND AN ELEPHANT MANAGING RELEASES Envoy has a useful setup directive, which allows you to set initial variables to use.
GITLAB: CONTAINER REPOSITORY
A WHALE AND AN ELEPHANT CREATE A .GITLAB-CI.YML TO MANAGE THE PROCESS
TEXT CI/CD IS EASIER THAN YOU THINK, AND WITH LOADS OF TOOLS OUT THERE YOU HAVE NO EXCUSE NOT TO USE THEM Steve McDougall
GitHub: JustSteveKing Twitter: @JustSteveKing THANK YOU FOR LISTENING
PHP South Wales organiser and BlueConf founder Steve McDougall gives us a talk about introducing Docker to your PHP applications with ease. Using the right tooling and a little know how, docker can be easily added to any PHP appplication - simple.
for free. You
can too.