Strategies for an evergreen PHP

2015 Virtual Private Servers

Cloud

• A mindset of scalability
• replicable data sets
• Frontend load balancer (haproxy, AWS's ELB)
• disposable application containers
• COW / layered based systems (btrfs, ext4 + overlayfs)
• Building from scratch: Dockerfile

# Your system could be maintained by someone
machinectl pull-dkr https://the-PHP-experts.software/my-PHP-system.dkr $container
# Just clone in your application code ...
git clone https://github.com/acme/myapp.git $container
machinectl start $container

Can we take the best of all the worlds?

• automatic updates "ever green" without downtime?
• holistic diff
• one container though with good backups of the data
• easy setup for mail()
• monitoring / alerts
• maintain a low barrier to entry
• good logging

How and where can we reduce complexity?

Thank you