DevOps & Deployment Pipelines

Continuous Deployment

Deploying code manually via FTP or SSH is slow, prone to accidents, and unacceptable for scaling systems. Modern pipelines build, test, and ship code automatically on every git commit.

1. Containerizing with Docker

We use Docker to guarantee that code runs exactly the same way in local environments, staging servers, and AWS production instances. Here is a simple Dockerfile setup for Laravel:

FROM php:8.3-fpm-alpine
RUN docker-php-ext-install pdo_mysql bcmath
COPY . /var/www
WORKDIR /var/www

2. CI/CD GitHub Actions

On every push to the main branch, GitHub runs test validations and compiles code. If all tests pass, the script builds a Docker image, uploads it to AWS ECR, and updates our ECS clusters to roll out the update without downtime.