Over the course of a year in 2020, we fully migrated off our Jenkins installation which housed our entire set of pipelines for continuous integration and deployment. This is our journey of creating and open-sourcing a set of actions to grow our GitHub pipelines.
Here at Sourcetoad, we've been working on migrating our PHP framework—mostly Laravel-based projects—to Amazon Web Services' Elastic Container Service (ECS). As we worked through the process, we were surprised at how scattered around the web good information seemed to be. There certainly was no comprehensive guide to run Laravel applications on ECS in what we would consider an enterprise-grade fashion.
Don't get us wrong: many guides exist, but they appeared to be leaving out important information. Some guides had part of the story, and others had the other part. A person needs to already understand AWS best practices to really know what is left out of each one. We thought it would be interesting to share what we have done in a comprehensive guide. This guide is for people who already have a basic understanding of how to run Laravel in Docker and use ECS. It focuses on the hardening and optimizations we have done.