What's the preferred way of deploying a Symfony2 application?

Question

With symfony 1, there was a simple built in task for doing deployments via rsync.

symfony project:deploy [--go] [--rsync-dir="..."] [--rsync-options[="..."]] server

For larger, more complicated projects, I was in the habit of extending or overwriting that task with something more robust, but it was useful to have in there for a simple application.

My question: Is there a standard, conventional way for deploying a Symfony2 application?

There are different bundles out there that add console commands:

• https://github.com/dator/DeployBundle
• https://github.com/jfsimon/DeploymentBundle

There is also Capifony, which is really interesting but probably way more than I need for the simple app I'm working on.

Is there something else that I'm missing? I guess I'm surprised there isn't a simple built in command available out of the box.

Answer 1

I don't believe there is a standard, conventional way to deploy Symfony 2 applications yet, esspecially as Symfony 2 is still not at a stable release.

I highly recommened using Capifony, even for simple application deployment. It is well documented and is developed by KnpLabs so is likely to be supported long term.

Answer 2

If you don't want to deal with ruby and you liked the project:deploy command from Symfony 1.4 check this bundle

• https://github.com/hpatoio/DeployBundle

You can easily install it using composer. Simply add "hpatoio/deploy-bundle": "~1.0" to your requirement.