Lesson 1 — Minimizing downtime and risk with advanced deployment strategies

Prerequisites and goals

Prerequisites

Theoretical prerequisites

This lesson assumes that you already know the following:

  • The difference between and benefits of differentiated testing, staging, and production/live environments
  • Understand how and why to separate environments, including the isolation of changes and the progressive steps toward live deployment
  • Understand the challenges associated with database versioning and migration
  • How to perform database schema and data migrations in TYPO3 as part of a CD workflow
  • Know the theoretical best practices for handling these changes seamlessly

Practical prerequisites

Before you start this lesson, please have the following things ready:

  • Configured TYPO3 differently for development, testing, staging, and production environments
  • Implemented scripts or tools that manage database changes
  • Ensure that migrations are smoothly and automatically handled during deployments
  • Demonstrated the setup of each environment and validated that each configuration and migration strategy works as expected

Goals

Theoretical goals

By the end of this lesson, you should know the following:

  • Understand zero-downtime deployment principles in TYPO3
  • Learn risk assessment methods for deployment processes
  • Master rollback strategies for failed deployments
  • Study advanced deployment monitoring techniques

Practical goals

By the end of this lesson, you should have completed the following:

  • Implement zero-downtime deployment procedures in TYPO3
  • Execute risk mitigation strategies during deployments
  • Configure automated rollback procedures for deployments
  • Set up comprehensive deployment monitoring systems

Learning resources

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Teacher's instructions

Student's instructions