CakePHP in a containerized CI-CD environment

A short talk about putting CakePHP in a (Docker) container environment for CI and CD purposes, what obstacles we have encountered doing that and what advantages it has provided us.

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1. CAKEPHP
   IN A CONTAINERIZED CI/CD ENVIRONMENT
   

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2. WHO IS THIS GUY?
   STEFAN VAN GASTEL
   ▸ Age 32
   ▸ Netherlands
   ▸ Zundert
   ▸ Vincent van Gogh
   ▸ Flower parade
   ▸ CakePHP since 1.2
   ▸ CakeFest since 2012
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3. WHO IS THIS GUY?
   STEFAN VAN GASTEL
   ▸ Dutch Ministry Of Defence (MOD)
   ▸ Since 2006
   ▸ Technical lead ‘Mobile Apps Military Police’
   ▸ Front-end
   ▸ Back-end
   ▸ Services
   ▸ Infrastructure
   ▸ Architecture
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4. WHO IS THIS GUY?
   Not this kind of guy… More like this guy…
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5. CONTAINERS
   WHAT ARE CONTAINERS?
   Unlike VMs, containers do not bundle a full operating system -
   only libraries and settings required to make the software work
   are needed. This makes for efficient, lightweight, self-contained
   systems and guarantees that software will always run the same,
   regardless of where it’s deployed.
   Source: https://docker.com
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   Vary in:
   - Speed
   - Resource usage
   - Footprint
   - Isolation
   

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6. CONTAINERS
   WHAT IS DOCKER?
   Docker is the world’s leading software container platform.
   Developers use Docker to eliminate “works on my
   machine”
   Operators use Docker to run and manage apps side-by-
   side in isolated containers to get better compute density.
   Source: https://docker.com
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7. CONTAINERS
   CAN RUN ON ANY LINUX BASED OS AND WINDOWS SERVER 2016
   Source: https://docker.com
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8. USAGE WITHIN THE MOD
   USING CONTAINERS
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   DOCKER FOR OVER 10 YEARS
   

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9. BRACE YOURSELF
   WARNING!
   Everything we build and run is in an offline, on-premise intranet infrastructure.
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10. CAKEPHP
    WHERE DOES CAKEPHP FIT IN?
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11. CI/CD PIPELINES
    HOW OUR CAKE MOVES
    Development
    Commit & Push
    Gitlab Container Registry
    Test Qa Review / Staging
    Build
    Build & Push Pull & Test Pull & Check Pull & Deploy
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12. PRODUCTION
    HOW OUR CAKE GETS EATEN
    Event Same old sh*t
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13. LESSONS LEARNED 1 OF 3
    MINDSET
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14. LESSONS LEARNED 2 OF 3
    12 FACTOR APPS
    III. Config | Store config in the environment
    IV. Backing services | Treat backing services as attached resources
    IX. Disposability | Maximize robustness with fast startup and graceful shutdown
    https://12factor.net
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15. LESSONS LEARNED 2 OF 3
    12 FACTOR APPS
    III. Config | Store config in the environment
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16. LESSONS LEARNED 2 OF 3
    12 FACTOR APPS
    IV. Backing services | Treat backing services as attached resources
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17. LESSONS LEARNED 2 OF 3
    12 FACTOR APPS
    IX. Disposability
    Maximize robustness
    with
    fast startup
    and
    graceful shutdown
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18. LESSONS LEARNED 3 OF 3
    CONTAINERS ARE REVOLUTION, NOT EVOLUTION
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19. LESSONS LEARNED 3 OF 3
    CONTAINERS ARE REVOLUTION, NOT EVOLUTION
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20. CAKEPHP AND DOCKER
    DEMO
    

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21. CAKEPHP AND DOCKER
    RESOURCES
    ▸ Examples
    ▸ https://github.com/stefanvangastel/docker-cakephp
    ▸ http://blog.danielcorreia.net/practical-docker-apache-php-and-
    mysql-cakephp-example/
    ▸ https://hub.docker.com/r/occitech/cakephp/
    ▸ Docker
    ▸ https://docs.docker.com/engine/userguide/eng-image/
    dockerfile_best-practices/
    ▸ https://blog.replicated.com/engineering/refactoring-a-dockerfile-
    for-image-size/
    

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22. BE HONEST
    ANY QUESTIONS?
    $ docker run -i answers:latest
    ▸ Feedback
    ▸ https://joind.in/talk/095fd
    ▸ Contact me
    ▸ stefanvangastel@gmail.com / scwj.v.gastel@mindef.nl
    ▸ https://www.linkedin.com/in/stefan-van-gastel
    ▸ Slides
    ▸ https://speakerdeck.com/stefanvangastel/cakephp-in-a-containerized-ci-cd-environment
    

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