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What if you could use Git to manage your whole infrastructure?

drupalphp
25 May, 2016
Augustin Delaporte
Augustin Delaporte
VP Product

You’re a cool kid who uses Git to manage the codebase of your applications because it’s convenient! You regularly create exact copies of your entire codebase by running  git branch , pull requests to manage code review, use tags or branches to deploy to production. No doubt you host your Git repositories on GitHub/Bitbucket/Gitlab because, let’s face it, you are cool…

But you also get stuck every time you want to test a new feature, fix a bug that happens in production, or simply upgrade a service used in your infrastructure. Not so cool.

Cool kid

Alright, you might have access to some internal tools which perform some of the following tasks (kudos if they do them all):

  • create development and staging environments on the fly
  • quickly synchronize and sanitize production database to those development and staging environments
  • migrate files between environments
  • backup production environment
  • deploy to production environment (and easily revert if things go wrong)
  • manage permissions and access between environments

Also, I’m pretty sure that it looks something like this (even worse sometimes):

Current deployment

I also suppose that you have someone (even possibly a team) responsible for maintaining those internal tools, making sure that they are properly running, up to date and always available for you to develop on…

Now, what if I told you that all of those processes can be as simple as running  git push  and that you, as a developer, can have 100% control of it? You can  git branch the entire infrastructure as often as you need, and as many times as you need, to test and develop new features? You can also stay up to date with what is in production and so much more… without changing anything in your applications!

Current deployment

That’s what I mean!

With Platform.sh, the entire architecture, along with the build and deployment processes, lives in your codebase within your Git repository.

Any single change you make to your infrastructure (upgrade a service, add an extension, define cron jobs, …) will go through a Git commit so you can track it and know exactly what has been deployed, and where.

This configuration is defined as a simple  .yaml  file, which looks like this (Drupal in this case):

name: myapp

type: "php:7.0"

build:
  flavor: drupal

dependencies:
  php:
    "drush/drush": "7.1.0"

runtime:
  extensions:
    - http
    - redis
    - ssh2

relationships:
  database: "mysql:mysql"
  solr: "solr:solr"
  redis: "redis:redis"

web:
  locations:
    "/":
      root: "public"
      expires: -1
      passthru: "/index.php"

disk: 2048

mounts:
  "/public/sites/default/files": "shared:files/files"
  "/tmp": "shared:files/tmp"
  "/private": "shared:files/private"
  "/drush-backups": "shared:files/drush-backups"

hooks:
  deploy: |
    cd public
    drush -y updatedb

crons:
  drupal:
    spec: "*/20 * * * *"
    cmd: "cd public ; drush core-cron"

To summarize, the main advantage of this approach is to reuse software development best practices and tools to manage your infrastructure. Such as:

  • Version control to know exactly what changes have been made
  • Rollback to a preceding version of the infrastructure
  • Testing the infrastructure on demand
  • Making many small deployments as single steps instead of big, more painful, deployments
  • Design patterns like continuous integration and continuous deployment

Watch Danilo Poccia session at Git Merge 2015 to learn more about this topic.

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