AustinPHP @ ESC13: Ansible for PHP Developers

We're in-person at ESC13 again for our July event! You can still catch the stream online, but we'd love for you to show up on-site if you're in the area to for a Live MergePHP watch party as Joe Ferguson presents (from remote) on Ansible for PHP Developers: Configure, Deploy, and Update Your Server Infrastructure . --- Most PHP developers learn server administration the hard way: SSHing into a box, editing config files by hand, and hoping the next deploy doesn't break what the last one fixed. This talk introduces Ansible as the way out — not as a checklist of commands to copy, but as a set of concepts (declarative state, idempotency, inventory, roles) that lets attendees author their own infrastructure code. Starting from zero Ansible experience, we build up the mental model: control nodes and managed nodes, modules and tasks, then roles and playbooks. From there we work through a realistic example — provisioning a server for a PHP application, deploying the app, and performing a zero-downtime update using release directories and a current symlink. --- By the way, Longhorn PHP…