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Deploying a live environment

Municipios Deploy Methods are meticulously crafted to cater to IT administrators without requiring extensive familiarity with WordPress site development. By merely forking the repository and configuring deployment particulars for your hosting environment, you can effortlessly deploy at your convenience.

This approach guarantees that deployments can be seamlessly executed by pulling the latest changes from the upstream of the forked repository, eliminating the need for any specialized technical expertise.

Current documentation can be found here: https://github.com/municipio-se/municipio-deployment

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Municipio 4 (Standard) - Deployment

Simplified deployment of Municipio 4
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About Municipio 4 (Standard) - Deployment

This repository simplifies the deployment for users of Municpio. Simply fork this repository and setup deployment details for your hosting environment and deploy whenever it suits you.

This will ensure that deployments can be made by fetching the upstream of the forked repository without any technical knowledge. Guide on how to fetch a upstream repo with github user interface can be found here: https://docs.github.com/en/pull-requests/collaborating-with-pull-requests/working-with-forks/syncing-a-fork.

Quick start

  1. Fork this repository. Enable github workflows on your newly created repository (gihub disables them due to security reasons on forks).
  2. Setup deployment details according to the tables below (source: https://github.com/helsingborg-stad/municipio-deploy/tree/master/4.0).
  3. Update to upstream, whenever you want to update your production enviroment with the latest version of Municipio.

Adding custom dependencies

You may add your own dependencies in composer.local.json file. This file is automatically read in build. We have made it a separate file to avoid merge conflicts.

You may also add plugins locally to your server with the folder name of the plugin prefixed with "local_". Normally they would be removed during the deploy to enshure one source of truth, however the deploy script will respect the "local_" string and keep them.

Parameters

Add the following secrets to your github repository secrets section (https://docs.github.com/en/actions/security-guides/encrypted-secrets). We do recommend that you assign these secrets locally to your repository. You can however use organization level secret to everything except the path if you determine that they will persist.

Configuration - Production

Used for branch names: production, master

Secret name Description Required
DEPLOY_REMOTE_HOST_PROD Host domain or ip true
DEPLOY_REMOTE_PATH_PROD Host deployment path true
DEPLOY_REMOTE_BACKUP_DIR_PROD Host rsync backup path true
DEPLOY_REMOTE_USER_PROD Host deploy ssh user name (In sudoers with nopassword enabled) true
DEPLOY_KEY_PROD Host deploy ssh user key (Private part of ssh key) true
WEB_SERVER_USER_PROD Host web server user true
PHP_VERSION What version of PHP that should be used (target env, build) true
GITHUB_TOKEN Github token for github npm package usage, use built in secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN true
ACF URL A url where a zip-file with ACF PRO can be found (ACF provides a url). true

Configuration - Stage

Used for branch names: stage, beta, test

Secret name Description Required
DEPLOY_REMOTE_HOST_STAGE Host domain or ip true
DEPLOY_REMOTE_PATH_STAGE Host deployment path true
DEPLOY_REMOTE_BACKUP_DIR_STAGE Host rsync backup path true
DEPLOY_REMOTE_USER_STAGE Host deploy ssh user name (In sudoers with nopassword enabled) true
DEPLOY_KEY_STAGE Host deploy ssh user key (Private part of ssh key) true
WEB_SERVER_USER_STAGE Host web server user true
PHP_VERSION What version of PHP that should be used (target env, build) true
GITHUB_TOKEN Github token for github npm package usage, use built in secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN true
ACF URL A url where a zip-file with ACF PRO can be found (ACF provides a url). true

Additional Setup

A fully functional website will not be automatically created when this deployment script has been executed. Some local site configuration has to be created in the a ./config/ folder on the the local machine. This is basically a wp-config.php split in multiple files for a better overview of the configuration.

All neccesary configuration-example files can be found in the ./config-example folder in this repository. All files ending in -example.php is optional. To use them, simply remove the '-example' extenstion.

The configuration files should be reviewed in full in order to configure the site to your likings.

Contribution

You may contribute to this repository if you feel that anything is missing. Simply send a pull request, and we will review it as soon as possible.

Suggested target environment

We do suggest that you include the following softare on the target machine.

  • Litespeed (prefered option) / NGINX / Apache
  • PHP ^8.1
  • Rsync (required for deployment)
  • MySQL or MariaDB

Optional addons

Municipio runs better with these additional packages, applications and settings.

  • Redis (highly encouraged)
  • Imagic (highly encouraged)
  • OpCache (highly encouraged)
  • S3 Compatible Object storage (Tested with Swift)

Resources

What resources you should give the machine is highly individual depending on your anticipated amount of traffic. But let each PHP process have at least 512MB memory to allocate. This high amount is due to some image processing being made in runtime.

Known issues

  • Municipio platform do not perform well in highly virtualized platforms sutch as Virtouzzo or Docker containers due to lack in efficiency of disk access.

License

Distributed under the MIT License.

Acknowledgements

Source Url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/municipio-se/municipio-deployment/refs/heads/master/README.md Last updated: 2025-01-18 01:54 Next update: 2025-01-18 13:54

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