DevOps

DevOps is a set of cultural practices, tools, and methodologies that combine software development (Dev) and IT operations (Ops) 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

Related packages : deployer/deployer