Chapter 2. Managing the Environment

Throughout this chapter, we will look into setting up our development and production environments. The idea is to have a fully automated development environment, which can be initiated with a single console command. For a production environment, we will turn our focus to one of the available cloud services, and see how easy it is to set up Magento for simpler production projects. We will not be covering any robust environment setups like auto-scaling, caching servers, content delivery networks, and similar. These are really jobs for System Administrator or DevOps roles. Our attention here is the bare minimum needed to get our Magento store up and running; a milestone we will achieve throughout the following sections would be:

• Setting up a development environment
  • VirtualBox
  • Vagrant
  • Vagrant project
    • Provisioning PHP
    • Provisioning MySQL
    • Provisioning Apache
    • Provisioning Magento installation
• Setting up a production environment
  • Introduction to Amazon Web Services (AWS)
  • Setting up access for S3 usage
    • Creating IAM users
    • Creating IAM groups
  • Setting up S3 for database and media files backup
  • Bash script for automated EC2 setup
    • Setting up EC2
    • Setting up Elastic IP and DNS