I've been working at Novicell for a little more than a year in the role as cross team dev-ops technician. The department I am working in builds and develop Drupal and Magento solutions for other companies, big and small.
Working on these kind of solutions creates some challenges, but we're quite good at tackling them in our team - and as a dev-ops, I want to share some of the solution i find in my daily work in the form of code snippets on this blog and possibly use them as reference for my self later, when I'll face the same problems again.
The thought is, if I face the problems, other people working in the same field - or other related professional groups - as me, they most likely face the same kind of problems as I do. So my goal is of course to share some nice and useful knowledge that is relevant for a professional dev-ops in the year 2023.
As i said, I've been working as PHP dev-ops for a little more than a year now. Before that I was a regular PHP developer with +15 years of experience with programming in PHP and later frameworks like Laravel and also Docker on a hobbyist level. When I got hired I agreed on accumulate some devops skills and face these kind of challenges in my new position and that's quite what happened.
Throughout my journey, I have learned to master deployment to AWS with Elastic Container Service with loadbalancing and other very neat stuff. I've also moved a bit more than a handfull of Drupal 7 - 8 and 9 sites to other hosting providers. I also did upgrade some of them from PHP 7 to PHP8, with everything that it entailed in regards to upgrades of composer packages etc.
This have been an challenging and educational process where I'd really learned the ups and downs in making Drupal CI/CD pipelines with Deployer.
I have really learned more in that one year at Novicell, than I did in my 2,5 years in my CS study.
Finally, this was just an introduction to me and my work, hopefully this blog will be useful by others than me, as mentioned before, don't hesitate to reach out to me, if you have some nice methods or tips/tricks that you want to share or just have any other comments.