Summary

Throughout this chapter, we focused on two main things: setting up development and production environments.

As part of the development environment, we embraced free software such as VirtualBox and Vagrant to manage our environment setup. The setup alone came down to a single Vagrantfile script that contained the necessary set of commands to install everything from the Ubuntu server, PHP, Apache, MySQL, and even Magento itself. We should by no means look at this script as final and only as a valid script to set up our development environment. Investing time in making the development environment closer to the project-specific requirements pays off in terms of team productivity.

We then moved on to the production environment. Here, we looked into Amazon Web Services, utilizing S3 and EC2 along the way. The production environment also came with its own scripted installation process that sets most of the things. Similarly, this script is by no means final and is only a valid way to set things up; it's more of a base example of how to do it.

In the next chapter, we will take a closer look at some of programming concepts and conventions.