Capistrano is an open source tool for running scripts on multiple servers. Capifony - set of instructions called “recipes” for Symfony applications deployment. Built to make your job a lot easier.

1. Using Capifony for
Symfony apps deployment
Žilvinas Kuusas
VilniusPHP 0x1B, 2015-02-05 / http://vilniusphp.lt

2. Who am I?
Žilvinas Kuusas
lead developer
Estina / iSign.io
t: @kuusas
e: zilvinas@kuusas.lt

3. How do people deploy?
Code
● FTP
● vim
● rsync
● git pull
● ...
Database
● Manually manage DB
fields
● phpMyAdmin
● mysql < changes.sql
● ...

4. Symfony - heavy
Post-deployment tasks:
● cache:clear
● cache:warmup
● assets:install
● assetic:dump
● doctrine:migrations:migrate
● restart some services
● ...

5. What if …
… you executed a wrong
command?

6. Don’t Repeat Yourself
AUTOMATE!

7. Goals for solid deployment
● One-click deployment
● Deploy in one transaction
● Rollback
● Automated tasks
● Notifications
● 0 downtime
● Confidence

8. Capistrano
Capifony

9. What Capistrano is?
● Capistrano is an open source tool for running scripts on
multiple servers
● Primary use - application deployment
● Capifony - set of instructions called “recipes” for
Symfony applications deployment
● Built to make your job a lot easier

10. Why Capifony?
● Fully supports Symfony features
● Actively maintained since 2009
● 6 active contributors
● >100 total
● last commit 16 days ago

11. What do we need?
● Symfony2 application
● Capifony
● SSH access to server (ssh-key recommended)

12. How it works?

13. Setup
$ sudo gem install capifony
$ cd /path/to/your/project
$ capifony .

14. $ capifony .

15. $ vi app/config/deploy.rb

16. $ vi app/config/deploy.rb

17. $ cap deploy

18. $ cap deploy

19. Main deployment commands
$ cap deploy
…
$ cap deploy:migrations
...
$ cap deploy:rollback

20. Deployment strategies
deployment > scm > production

21. Deployment strategies
scm > deployment > production

22. Behind scenes

23. What else Capifony can do?
● Execute Symfony commands on server
● Execute shell commands on server
● Dump remote database and download
● Tail logs
● Turn on/off maintenance page

24. $ cap -vT # Lists all tasks available
$ cap deploy:check
$ cap database:copy:to_local
$ cap deploy:cold
$ cap deploy:pending
$ cap deploy:web:disable
$ cap deploy:web:enable
$ cap symfony:logs:tail
$ cap symfony
...

25. Database migrations
Deploy database schema updates in...
● SAFE
● EASY
● STANDARDIZED
way…

26. DoctrineMigrationsBundle

27. $ app/console doctrine:migrations:diff

28. Deploying with migrations:
$ cap deploy:migrations
Rolling-back migrations:
$ cap symfony -S task_arguments="doctrine:
migrations:migrate 20150205170707 --no-interaction"
$ cap deploy:migrations

29. OPcache
● Create temp file accessible via www
● Make curl request
● Remove file
Capistrano recipe for that:
https://github.com/occitech/capistrano-recipes/blob/master/Opcache-Recipe.rb

30. Keeping sessions

31. Multistage extension
Enables deployment to multiple servers
$ cap STAGE_NAME deploy
Multistage extension:
https://github.com/capistrano/capistrano/wiki/2.x-Multistage-Extension

32. Deploying release package
● CI server builds release package (zip)
● Capifony deploys
Capistrano deploy strategy called “archive”:
https://github.com/sorccu/capistrano-deploy-strategy-archive

33. Symfony related configuration

34. Extending Capistrano
It’s Ruby!

35. Override Capistrano recipes

36. Listen to events

37. Debugging

38. $ cap deploy -d

39. cap deploy:migrations -s branch=master
cap deploy:migrations -S my_var=value
Arguments in CLI

40. Other deployment tools
● Fabric (Python)
● Idephix
● Magellanes
● Deployer
● Laravel / Envoy
● Rocketeer
● Ansible + Tower

41. Final thoughts
Don’t use FTP

42. Final thoughts
AUTOMATE

43. Questions?

44. AČIŪ
Credits for image authors. “what if…” gif taken from devopsreactions.tumblr.com, deployment strategies - from capifony.org.
Couldn’t find the real authors of lizzard and kitty - so if its your’s - THANK YOU.