CloudFest 2026: From Firefighting to Sleeping At Night

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1. March 23rd, 2026 MARTIN HELMICH @mittwald CC-0 SpaceX FROM FIREFIGHTING TO SLEEPING AT NIGHT BUILDING A BULLETPROOF STAGING & DEPLOYMENT WORKFLOW
2. INFRASTRUCTURE YOUR STUFF ? DEPLOYMENT
3. mittwald Chief Technology Evangelist Head of Developer Relations TYPO3 Association Board Member PHWT Lecturer, Software Engineering & Cloud Computing MARTIN HELMICH
4. 16-YEAR OLD MARTIN HIS SHITTY FIRST TYPO3 SITE https://web.archive.org/web/20040829084706/http://www.espelkamper-nachrichten.de/
6. martin@local $ rsync -a . your-server.example:/path/to/prod sending incremental file list uploading file 1 of 8756234...
9. martin@local $ ssh your-server.example martin@server $ cd /path/to/prod martin@server path/to/prod $ PROFIT!!! martin@server path/to/prod $ git pull
10. CHOOSE YOUR TOOLS
12. INFRASTRUCTURE YOUR STUFF ! YOUR PROBLEM YOUR PROBLEM NOT CONTAINER IMAGE YOUR STUFF REQUIRED ENVIRONMENT
13. Image Source
15. IT DEPENDS – every consultant, ever
16. FRONTEND BUILDS DATABASE UPDATES SMOKE TESTS “I JUST NEED TO GET MY CODE UP ON THE SERVER” “JUST DO A GIT PULL” CACHE FLUSHING CONTINUOUS ERY LANGUAGE FILES
17. DEPLOYMENT REQUIREMENTS REPEATABLEand (potentially) AUTOMATABLE Complex processes consisting of multiple build steps should be easily repeatable without margin for human error. Typically, specialized deployment tools are used for this.
18. DEPLOYMENT REQUIREMENTS REPEATABLEand (potentially) AUTOMATABLE ZERO DOWN TIME Deployments should not cause a down time; the software delivered to users should always be consistent, and releases should be switched instantly (“atomic”)
19. DEPLOYMENT REQUIREMENTS REPEATABLE ZERO DOWN TIME REVERSIBLE and (potentially) AUTOMATABLE A deployment should be easily reversible in case of an unexpected error.
20. CONTROL CONVENIENCE _ Long-lived / complex / frequently updated _ High degree of customization, large team, custom solutions _ Compliance requirements? SBOMs? à Containers, Kubernetes _ Short-lived and/or infrequently updated sites _ Standardization, no/minimal customization _ Small ops budget, small team, focus on agency core business? à Managed solutions, Auto-updates, SFTP upload HERE BE DRAGONS
21. ATOMIC DEPLOYMENT WELCOME TO DEPLOYER https://deployer.org
23. SEE https://github.com/mittwald/deployer-recipes
24. CHOOSE YOUR TOOLS DEPLOYMENT REQUIREMENTS REPEATABLE ZERO DOWN TIME REVERSIBLE and (potentially) AUTOMATABLE
25. https://www.mittwald.de/karriere WE’RE HIRING Infrastructure Engineer CMS Support Engineer Product Owner CMS Hosting (all genders, on-site) MARTIN HELMICH m.helmich@mittwald.de | martin.helmich@typo3.org https://www.linkedin.com/in/martinhelmich