Deployment and Continuous Integration (CI)

FTP is obsolete. It is not feasible for today, it makes things slow, and a normal FTP connection is insecure. It is hard for a team to deploy their changes using FTP because it creates huge conflicts in their code and this may cause problems, while uploading changes and can override each other's changes.

Using a Git versioning system, such as GitHub, GitLab, and Bitbucket, we can make our deployment automatic. Different developers use different setups for automatic deployments, and it all depends on their own choice and ease. The general rules of using automatic deployments are to make them easy for a team and to not use FTP.

The following is a general flowchart for a deployment setup:

As shown in the preceding flowchart, we have two servers: the staging or testing the server and production server. On the staging server, we have an exact copy of the website to test new features and others, and the production server has our live website.

Now, we have...