Tag: GitLab

1. Building Clean Staging to Production Promotion with GitLab Pipelines

   May 5, 2026

   Anyone who builds the same thing on production as on staging is not actually testing what they tested on staging. Promoting a validated artifact, instead of rebuilding it, is the foundation of reproducible deployments. GitLab environments, manual approvals and correct variable scopes make this process team ready and auditable.

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2. Maintenance Mode in Magento: Only Use It Where It's Truly Necessary

   Apr 22, 2026

   Magento Maintenance Mode blocks real users. Teams that flip it on for every deployment are paying for uptime with unnecessary process overhead. This article shows when it's actually required, how to integrate it correctly into GitLab CI, and how a clean release structure reduces it to a bare minimum.

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3. Systematically Narrowing Down Production Errors After Deployments

   Apr 19, 2026

   An error after a deployment is not a sign of bad work, it is a signal. Anyone who works systematically finds the root cause in minutes instead of hours. Anyone who improvises searches longer, makes more incidental changes, and risks overwriting the original state before the cause is even clear.

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4. Combining Deployer with GitLab CI for Magento the Right Way

   Mar 7, 2026

   Deployer PHP and GitLab CI/CD complement each other perfectly for Magento deployments: GitLab builds and tests, Deployer takes care of the release structure, the symlink switch and the rollback path. Teams that combine both tools correctly end up with a reproducible, team ready deployment process without maintenance window roulette.

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5. Bundling PHPUnit, PHPStan, PHPCS and Security Checks in GitLab CI

   Feb 28, 2026

   Code that is never tested and never analyzed quietly accumulates errors. Bundling PHPUnit, PHPStan, PHPCS and composer audit as parallel GitLab CI jobs delivers feedback after every commit on tests, type safety, style and known security vulnerabilities, automatically and without manual effort.

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6. Static Content Deployment for Magento: Getting It Right in the Pipeline

   Feb 1, 2026

   Running Static Content Deployment on the production server means long maintenance windows, server-dependent build results, and unpredictable runtimes. The right place for SCD is the CI build job, paired with the Hyva Tailwind build, setup:di:compile, and pub/static as a controlled artifact that can be deployed to any server.

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7. Complete .gitlab-ci.yml for Magento: Build, Test, Package, Deploy, Verify

   Jan 26, 2026

   A .gitlab-ci.yml with only three jobs and no defined stages is not a deployment process, it is a script that will eventually break. Deploying Magento cleanly requires a complete pipeline structure: reproducible build artifacts, defined approvals, server side release directories, controlled Magento steps and a functionally complete verify job.

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8. GitLab Artifacts: What Belongs in the Release Build and What Doesn't

   Jan 3, 2026

   Anyone who packs directories into GitLab artifacts without a plan ends up with bloated packages, non reproducible deployments, and unnecessary server risk. Clean separation between build output, shared data, and server state is the core of a resilient release process for Magento.

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9. Magento Release Structure with releases/, current/ and shared/ from Scratch

   Dec 28, 2025

   A Magento shop that gets deployed straight into a single directory cannot be rolled back in seconds. The symlink model with releases/, current/ and shared/ is the foundation of every zero-downtime deployment, and it needs to be built correctly once, before the first pipeline ever runs.

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10. Separating Magento Media, pub/static and Build Artifacts the Right Way

    Dec 28, 2025

    Throwing media files, static assets and build artifacts into the same bucket in Magento deployments makes rollbacks dangerous and deployments slow. Each of these three categories has its own lifecycle, its own ownership and its own deployment strategy, and that must be reflected in the structure of the pipeline.

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