Automating PHP upgrades with Ansible
summary
Automates the upgrade path by using Ansible playbooks, Remi repos, Jinja templates, handlers and Ansible Vault to install PHP packages, configure php.ini and PHP‑FPM sockets, and run tests. Upgraded 13 apps to PHP 7.2 in two months and redeployed 100+ servers and swapped Apache to Nginx, with average PHP processing time down ~30% and some apps nearly 100% faster. Includes composer and PHPUnit version bumps, rolling updates or blue/green provisioning, and checks to only add healthy hosts to load balancers.
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chapters (19)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:32Agenda
- 1:23Current PHP versions
- 5:45Why use PHP 71
- 10:03What is Ansible
- 13:10Infrastructure as Code
- 19:48Automation
- 21:56Managing databases
- 23:16EC2 metadata facts
- 24:45Ansible features
- 26:55PHP programmatically
- 27:49Using environment variables
- 29:42Using handlers
- 30:18Why Nginx
- 31:07Example
- 31:48Future proofing
- 32:16Considerations
- 35:29DevOps plug
- 36:21QA
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