The PHP meetup Metropolregion Rhein-Neckar will meet again on the 14th of December 2023 at wawibox in Heidelberg, Germany.

Can our latest blog posts be rendered on our bitExpert GitHub organization page? This was the challenge I tried to solve. Apparently, yes. In this blog post, I cover all the steps needed to achieve that in this blog post.

Join the PHP meetup Frankfurt on the 23rd of November for our last meetup in 2023.

Last week Docusaurus released version 3.0.0 and we managed to upgrade our blog without many issues.

Last week I traveled to Poznań, Poland to speak at SyliusCon 2023 about the Gally connector we've built for our partner Gally.

While setting up a GitLab CI build & deployment pipeline for one of our customer projects, I had the need to expose GitLab's environment-specific variables in multiple jobs as I needed the information in the build & deployment steps. Since I needed to run the jobs on different servers, I was not able to combine both jobs.

Deployer is a valuable tool that simplifies and automates the deployment process of PHP applications in a traditional non-container environment.

Following our guide to set up Traefik, Docker, and Compose with multiple networks, I ran into a problem:

a network with name customer_staging_default exists but was not created for project "customer_staging"
Set `external: true` to use an existing network

network customer_staging_default was found but has incorrect label com.docker.compose.network set to "staging_default"

One of my recent tasks was to run an upgrade of a production PostgreSQL database. Since we have PostgreSQL running in a Docker container in our Hashicorp Nomad environment, I assumed it would be enough to switch to a new Docker image and everything would be working fine.

For traditional non container deployments, Deployer is a value tool to simplify & automate the deployment process of a PHP application. Thanks to its collection of default deployment recipes, Deployer can be used out-of-the-box for deployments.