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Does anyone remember what our CI pipelines looked like before docker and cheap cloud services?

I hardly remember myself because when I began web development the whole team worked on the same code on a samba share and we had to shout into the room: "Is anyone working in foo.php right now?"

So no CI at all. But those who did it early, how did you do it? On bare metal I guess?

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Daniel Siepmann
Daniel Siepmann
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We'll not CI, but a scripted deployment was established via Bamboo from Atlassian. It was a shell script executed in a virtual server.

The next agency also had Bamboo. And we executed everything on the bamboo server. Not sure how exactly we handled the different PHP versions …

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Alexander Schnitzler
Alexander Schnitzler
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Don't know when you started but there was this glorious PHP 5.1-5.4 time when people didn't really need to update their versions for around 10 years.
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Oliver Klee
Oliver Klee
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Yes, bare metal with Jenkins. Wrangling the PHP versions, Jenkins plugins etc. was a real pain.
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Torben Hansen
Torben Hansen
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We had a bare metal server locally with VMWare ESXi as hostsystem. There we had a VM running Jenkin and several other VMs with different setups (e.g. PHP versions, Selenium, Selenium Grid). Worked quite good, but updating the components was always very painful and error prone.
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