4 posts tagged with "Gitlab CI"

FrankenPHP can embed the source code and assets of PHP applications in a static, self-contained binary. This, paired with GitLab CI, streamlines deployments and releases.

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.

GitLab and GitLab CI are crucial for deploying our projects. In our latest Sylius project, we set up an automated CI pipeline for code quality checks and for deploying the Sylius application on the production and staging environment.

Last year GitLab introduced the Review Apps feature. Review Apps are app environments that are created dynamically every time you push a new branch up to GitLab. As a bonus point the app environments are automatically deleted when the branch is deleted. Since we moved to using docker for quite a few of our projects I was keen on figuring out how to combine Docker and the GitLab Review Apps functionality as the documentation only mentions NGINX as a way to run Review Apps. As it turns out, it is rather simple to deploy docker containers as a Review App.