Deploying by rsync on a Friday afternoon, and what replaced it: lint, test, build, stage, promote — with a rollback that is the same mechanism rather than a…
The shared-folder problem that nearly killed this last year is gone. What changes in the compose file, what the new file sharing costs, and where Linux and Mac…
Container linking is legacy as of 1.9 and still functions, so compose files written last year keep working and nobody is forced to learn the replacement. The replacement…
reload sends the master process a signal: it re-reads the configuration, starts new workers, and lets the old ones finish the requests they are serving. restart stops everything…
Reindexing into a new index leaves two: the old one still serving and the new one ready. Pointing the application at the new one by editing configuration means…
Composer resolves dependencies against the PHP running it, so a developer on 7.0 and a server on 5.6 get different — and both correct — lock files. The…
Free certificates went GA this month. Automating issuance and renewal, the rate limits that catch staging first, and the monitoring that has to outlive the automation.
The usual front-controller line repeats the PHP handler configuration, because the fallback has to be a URI and the PHP location has its own fastcgi_pass block. A named…