Learning is awesome! Learning something new has so many benefits I can’t even list them all. First and foremost you grow personally. Learning teaches you to deal with setbacks and successes, fosters your interest in various topics and trains your willpower and endurance. From a social perspective learning (and mastering) a skill enables you to be of value to others, makes you an interesting person to talk to (and learn from!), and helps you keep connected to like-minded people. This article will show you how to learn anything you want.

Deployer is a deployment tool written in PHP to be used by PHP applications. Deployer ships with out-of-the-box support for various popular PHP frameworks, including Symfony. For a recent project of mine I needed to execute database migrations during deployment, and hence a simple rsync deployment was not enough. That’s where Deployer kicks in.

Getting Started

Add Deployer to your project with composer require deployer/deployer and then unleash the beast with php vendor/bin/dep, which starts the deployment pipeline. To configure the deployment pipeline, you’ll need to create a deploy.php file in the root directory of your project along the lines of: