DevOps & CI/CD Pipelines

Manual FTP uploads are how most PHP developers start — and how most incidents happen. This category is about graduating to repeatable, automated deployments without paying for heavy platforms. We cover GitHub Actions pipelines that deploy to cPanel on every push, Docker basics for developers on shared hosting, environment variable and secrets management, zero-downtime deploy patterns with atomic symlinks, and automated backups to S3-compatible storage. For deploying specific frameworks, pair with our CMS and Framework Development category. DevOps scales from one-developer shops to production teams — start small, add pieces as you need them. All patterns here work on a standard cPanel plan with SSH access.