DevOps

DevOps is a set of cultural practices, tools, and methodologies that combine software development, the Dev part and IT operations, the Ops part, to shorten the systems development lifecycle and deliver high-quality software continuously.

Key DevOps practices relevant to PHP projects include:

  • Continuous Integration, CI: automatically building and testing code on every push

  • Continuous Deployment, CD: automatically deploying tested code to production

  • Infrastructure as Code, IaC: managing servers, containers, and services via version-controlled configuration files

  • Containerisation: packaging PHP applications in Docker containers for consistent environments.

  • Monitoring and observability: tracking application performance, errors, and uptime.

  • Automated testing: unit, integration, and end-to-end tests run in the pipeline.

Documentation

See also What is DevOps? (GitLab) and GitHub Actions for PHP.

Related : Continuous Integration (CI), Deployment, Docker Container, Tool, Monitoring, Test, git, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Docker, Timing Attack, Build, Continuous Integration, Continuous Integration, Service Level Agreement (SLA)

Related packages : deployer/deployer