Scott Molinari takes a look at Packer and analyzes its viability for the typical PHP developer of today - find out whether or not it's worth learning about!
Tag: VM
Parham dives into Vagga - a lightweight alternative to Docker useful for containerized development environments - and builds a PHP environment!
Docker Explained! Younes goes through the process of building a sample Laravel + MySQL app powered by two docker containers - check it out!
Bruno Skvorc reintroduces Vagrant driven development in a post that covers the theory behind it - the what, the why, and the how.
In this article we cover what Wocker is and how to get started using it. Wocker is easy to install and can streamline the workflow for WordPress developers.
Aldo Ziflaj lists five easy-to-use alternatives for your Vagrant needs. Get started using VMs for your PHP development TODAY!
A guide to using PHPbrew and VirtPHP to achieve perfectly fast virtual environments for development and testing on multiple PHP versions
This post will show you how to install custom PHP extensions into Zend Server 7. The tutorial focuses on Phalcon, but applies to all extensions.
In this post, we'll take a look at Zend Server 7 - what it brings to the table, what it impresses with, and where it falls short.
Here's how you can quickly install Zend Server 7 on an Ubuntu powered Vagrant box. For a detailed description of ZS7, see link inside.
Here's how you get XDebug to work though PHPStorm across a Vagrant layer all the way to your PHP app. Don't let virtual machines impede your debugging!
Get a Homestead VM up and running in under a couple of minutes on any platform
Stress-test your app with ApacheBench - a tool designed to nuke your application with as many requests as you tell it to - see how strong your server is.
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