Deployment
Master deployment strategies and CI/CD workflows
6 articles
Build process and .dockerignore
Understanding how container builds work and optimizing build times with .dockerignore
Understanding build commands and init commands
Build commands run during image creation to install dependencies and compile assets, while init commands execute as startup scripts before each application startup for tasks like database migrations. Use build commands for preparing your code and init commands for runtime setup that needs fresh configuration.
Understanding build secrets vs runtime secrets
Understand the difference between build secrets and runtime secrets, and how to use variable expansion for flexible configuration
When changes require redeployment
When you make changes to your application's configuration like environment variables, domains, or services, these changes won't take effect immediately. Instead, your application will be marked as needing deployment, and you'll need to trigger a new deployment to apply all pending changes.
Deployment Strategies
Learn about different deployment strategies and when to use them.
PHP extensions in applications
Configure PHP extensions to add additional functionality to your applications. Extensions provide capabilities like image processing, database connections, caching, and more. PHP configuration is now dynamically optimized based on your application settings.