Deployer is a deployment tool written in PHP to be used by PHP applications. Deployer ships with out-of-the-box support for various popular PHP frameworks, including Symfony. For a recent project of mine I needed to execute database migrations during deployment, and hence a simple rsync deployment was not enough. That’s where Deployer kicks in. Getting Started Add Deployer to your project with composer require deployer/deployer and then unleash the beast with php vendor/bin/dep, which starts the deployment pipeline.

Recently, a friend of mine suggested to check out CloudFlare, a service to protect and accelerate websites. The most awesome part is: there is a free plan, which is quite supercharged! Have a look at the features overview to see what’s already part of the free plan. Definitely enough for me to set it up. This blog post documents the three simple steps I took, so you can see how easy it actually is.