Web Deployment API

Our client needed an automatization software to use exclusively inside the company’s infrastructure. Specifically, the client required a solution that facilitates the process of deploying numerous PHP servers. For example, one service of this API allows creating database snapshots of a particular website for a particular environment. The operator types a command in a corporate messenger or task manager that cooperates with this API, initiates a chain of queries to different services, and gets a link to the required database dump that can be downloaded, examined, copied, and used to deploy another website.

The operation of our client’s company involves the creation of numerous websites for corporate purposes. We provided a multi-service software solution to make this complex process extremely fast and cost-efficient. As the first business advantage, the working hours required to deploy PHP websites were reduced by 15-20 times. It allows switching employees to other tasks while our solution performs deployments steps automatically. Another key advantage was the constant monitoring of websites’ operation with the help of automatically generated tickets in case of errors.

To meet the client’s requirements, we developed an API that closely cooperates with Amazon Web Services and MySQL databases. The optimal choice of framework for such a solution was Chalice as it allowed the implementation of a serverless approach. We created the multi-service architecture, so every service has its own area of responsibility and functionality designed to cooperate with particular software, such as Jira or Slack. For example, one service cooperates with Jira and can open tickets automatically whenever a monitored server experiences an error. To obtain a database snapshot, this event-driven solution uses either ECS tasks or Lambda functions, depending on script execution time.