Asmir Mustafic has posted the third part of his series covering the deployment of Symfony API applications. In this latest part (part three) of the series, he focuses on the infrastructure piece.

This is the third post from a series of posts that will describe the whole deploy process from development to production. The first article is available here and the second here.

In the previous two articles, I've covered the steps 1-3 from the schema here below. Before being able to discuss the steps 4-5 we will need to see how to configure the instances properly to be able to deploy our application to a docker-swarm cluster with rolling updates.

He starts off by describing the pieces that will make up the infrastructure: a PostgreSQL database, Docker swarm for machine/VM management and AWS instances to run the containers on. He then starts in on the instance type and setup you'll need to get the system up and running including manager and worker nodes. The post wraps up with a list of things he sees as improvements for the future such as using a custom AMI, use of elastic load balancers and handling node failure a bit better.