How to Deploy a Symfony Application

require 'recipe/symfony.php';

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Deployer is a free and open source deployment tool written in PHP. It helps you to deploy your Symfony application to a server. It is very easy to use and has a lot of features.

Three main features of Deployer are:

• Provisioning - provision your server for you.
• Zero downtime deployment - deploy your application without a downtime.
• Rollbacks - rollback your application to a previous version, if something goes wrong.

Additionally, Deployer has a lot of other features, like:

• Easy to use - Deployer is very easy to use. It has a simple and intuitive syntax.
• Fast - Deployer is very fast. It uses parallel connections to deploy your application.
• Secure - Deployer uses SSH to connect to your server.
• Supports all major PHP frameworks - Deployer supports all major PHP frameworks.

You can read more about Deployer in Getting Started.

The deploy task of Symfony consists of:

• deploy:prepare – Prepares a new release
  • deploy:info – Displays info about deployment
  • deploy:setup – Prepares host for deploy
  • deploy:lock – Locks deploy
  • deploy:release – Prepares release
  • deploy:update_code – Updates code
  • deploy:env – Configure .env file
  • deploy:shared – Creates symlinks for shared files and dirs
  • deploy:writable – Makes writable dirs
• deploy:vendors – Installs vendors
• deploy:cache:clear – Clears cache
• deploy:publish – Publishes the release
  • deploy:symlink – Creates symlink to release
  • deploy:unlock – Unlocks deploy
  • deploy:cleanup – Cleanup old releases
  • deploy:success – Deploys your project

The symfony recipe is based on the common recipe.

Configuration

symfony_version

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$result = run('{{bin/console}} --version');
preg_match_all('/(\d+\.?)+/', $result, $matches);
return $matches[0][0] ?? 5.0;

shared_dirs

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Overrides shared_dirs from recipe/deploy/shared.php.

[
    'var/log',
]

shared_files

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Overrides shared_files from recipe/deploy/shared.php.

[
    '.env.local',
]

writable_dirs

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Overrides writable_dirs from recipe/deploy/writable.php.

[
    'var',
    'var/cache',
    'var/log',
    'var/sessions',
]

log_files

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'var/log/*.log'

migrations_config

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doctrine_schema_validate_config

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bin/console

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'{{bin/php}} {{release_or_current_path}}/bin/console'

console_options

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return '--no-interaction';

Tasks

database:migrate {#database-migrate}

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Migrates database.

doctrine:schema:validate {#doctrine-schema-validate}

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Validate the Doctrine mapping files.

deploy:cache:clear {#deploy-cache-clear}

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Clears cache.

deploy:dump-env {#deploy-dump-env}

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Optimize environment variables.

deploy {#deploy}

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Deploys project.

This task is group task which contains next tasks:

• deploy:prepare
• deploy:vendors
• deploy:cache:clear
• deploy:publish