First time deployment

Previous step:

Install Magento

After fully setting up your local workspace, for Pro you should have the cloned Integration master branch on your local. To finish your initial setup, we strongly recommend fully deploying master branch to Staging and Production environments. You only need to push this branch from Integration to Staging and Production once without any changes. This fully installs the base Magento Commerce application into those environments.

This initial push provides the following benefits:

• Fully installs Magento in each environment
• Allows the build/deploy scripts to use the setup:upgrade command instead of setup:install (important for adding extensions)
• Pushes the Magento encryption key across all environments

• Protects against errors and failures when installing with added modules and extensions

  Not all extensions are correctly tested with the setup:install command and application modes. If you initially install Magento code with added 3rd party extensions or custom code, you may receive errors and build/deploy failures. By deploying the unmodified Magento template, all future deployments to Staging and Production typically do not encounter installation issues from 3rd party and custom code.

Prerequisites

To deploy, you need the following:

• A project with an unmodified Magento Commerce template master branch (projects created using the import option may encounter issues)
• Staging and Production environments provisioned
• SSH access to Staging and Production environments

Enter a ticket

If you need environments provisioned and SSH access, enter a Support ticket.

To request environment provisioning, you will need to have cleared a payment for the Magento Commerce (Cloud) subscription and completed an on-boarding call with Magento.

To receive SSH access, provide public SSH keys in the ticket for the environments. You should receive the SSH URL for these environments in your project information from Magento.

Deploy to Staging and Production

The Project Web Interface provides full features to create, manage, and deploy code branches in your Integration, Staging, and Production environments for Starter and Pro plans. You can also use SSH and CLI commands to complete these process. Previously for Pro plans, you could only use SSH and CLI commands for Staging and Production.

For the Pro plan, deploy the branch you created to Staging and Production.

1. Log in to your project.
2. Select the branch you created.
3. Select the Merge option to deploy to Staging.
4. Select the Staging branch.
5. Select the Merge option to deploy to Production.

Deploy using SSH

If you prefer to use CLI for deploying, you will need to configure additional SSH settings and Git remotes to use commands. You can SSH into the Staging and Production environments to push the master branch.

You’ll need the SSH and Git with your project ID. The formats are as follows:

• Git URL format:

  • Staging: git@git.ent.magento.cloud:<project ID>_stg.git
  • Production: git@git.ent.magento.cloud:<project ID>.git

• SSH URL format:

  • Staging: <project ID>_stg@<project ID>.ent.magento.cloud
  • Production: <project ID>@<project ID>.ent.magento.cloud

As part of pushing the code, you may need to:

• Set up remote Git repos
• Set up the SSH agent on environments

After that is set up, you can SSH into the environment and use Git commands to push the branches.

Set up remote Git repositories

When you know your Git URLs, you must set them up as remote upstream repositories so you can push code to them.

Command syntax:

git remote add <remote repository name> <remote repository URL>

For example,

git remote add staging git@git.ent.magento.cloud:dr5q6no7mhqip_stg.git
git remote add prod git@git.ent.magento.cloud:dr5q6no7mhqip.git

Set up your SSH agent

You can use any SSH client you prefer or see our Recommended tools. For these examples, we use the OpenSSH client.

The SSH agent forwards authentication requests from Staging or Production to your working Magento system (that is, your local workspace). An SSH agent enables you to log in to remote servers from the staging or production host using a local private SSH key. With a working SSH agent, you can easily copy files directly between the staging or production host and integration, or from another remote server.

To set up an SSH agent:

1. Log in to local development machine.

2. Enter the following command:

   ssh-add -l
   

   One of the following messages displays:

   • Working SSH agent: 2048 ab:de:56:94:e3:1e:71:c3:4f:df:e1:62:8d:29:a5:c0 /home/magento_user/.ssh/id_rsa (RSA)

     Skip the next step and continue with step 4.

   • SSH agent not started: Could not open a connection to your authentication agent.

     Continue with step 3.

3. To start the SSH agent, enter the following command:

     eval $(ssh-agent -s)
   

   The agent’s process ID (PID) displays.

4. Add your SSH key to the agent:

     ssh-add ~/.ssh/id_rsa
   

   A message similar to the following displays:

     Identity added: /home/magento_user/.ssh/id_rsa (/home/magento_user/.ssh/id_rsa)
   

For more information on setting up SSH, see Enable SSH keys as part of your local setup.

SSH and pull the Git branch

1. Open an SSH connection to your Staging or Production environment:

   • Staging: ssh -A <project ID>_stg@<project ID>.ent.magento.cloud
   • Production: ssh -A <project ID>@<project ID>.ent.magento.cloud

2. Pull the master branch to the server.

    git pull origin master
   

You’re ready to code!

When this code is fully deployed to those environments, you can begin development, add extensions, and more!