Deploy file

Deploy file is a YAML file used by the Docker SDK to build infrastructure for applications. The deploy file’s structure is based on YAML version 1.2 syntax.

Deploy file templates

An application usually has a deploy file for each environment. Even though the environments are different, most of the basic parameters are usually the same. To avoid defining duplicate parameters, you can use a deploy file template with dynamic parameters.

Deploy file template is a deploy file that contains the most basic configuration of an application or the configuration that’s the same for multiple environments. By including a deploy file template into your application’s configuration, you avoid defining all the basic and duplicate configuration in the main deploy files.

Docker SDK is shipped with the basic deploy file template: deploy.base.template.yml. By default, it works with dev and demo environments, as well as CI. You can also adjust it to work with the production environment or create a custom template. last_updated: Nov 21, 2023

Including deploy file templates

To include a deploy file template into an application’s configuration, use the imports: parameter in the main deploy file of the desired environment.

imports:
  custom_deploy_file.yml:

Dynamic parameters

A dynamic parameter is a YAML parameter that defines the value of a placeholder for an included deploy file. It enables environment-specific parameters to be used in deploy file templates.

For example, deploy.dev.yaml includes deploy.base.template.yml:

deploy.dev.yml

version: 1.0

imports:
    deploy.base.template.yml:
      parameters:
        env_name: 'dev'

The included deploy file includes more deploy files:

deploy.base.template.yml

...

imports:
    environment/%env_name%/image.deploy.template.yml:
    environment/%env_name%/composer.deploy.template.yml:
    environment/%env_name%/assets.deploy.template.yml:
    environment/%env_name%/regions.deploy.template.yml:
    environment/%env_name%/groups.deploy.template.yml:
    environment/%env_name%/services.deploy.template.yml:
    environment/%env_name%/docker.deploy.template.yml:

When deploy.base.template.yml is included into the build of deploy.dev.yml, %env_name% is replaced with dev:

deploy.base.template.yml

...

imports:
    environment/dev/image.deploy.template.yml:
    environment/dev/composer.deploy.template.yml:
    environment/dev/assets.deploy.template.yml:
    environment/dev/regions.deploy.template.yml:
    environment/dev/groups.deploy.template.yml:
    environment/dev/services.deploy.template.yml:
    environment/dev/docker.deploy.template.yml:

Import types

You can include a deploy file into an application’s configuration using one of the following import types.

• File path:

imports:
    deploy.base.template.yml:
    deploy.project.template.yml:

• Named array:

imports:
    base-deploy-file:
        template: deploy.base.template.yml
last_updated: Nov 21, 2023
    project-deploy-file:
        template: deploy.project.template.yml
last_updated: Nov 21, 2023

• Unnamed array:

imports:
    - template: deploy.base.template.yml
last_updated: Nov 21, 2023
    - template: deploy.project.template.yml
last_updated: Nov 21, 2023

Unlike file path import, named and unnamed array imports support including the same deploy file multiple types. This can be useful when you want to add the same configuration multiple times with different parameters.

Example of including the same deploy file with different parameters via a named array import:

imports:
    project-deploy-file:
        template: deploy.project.template.yml
last_updated: Nov 21, 2023
        parameters: 'stage'
    extended-project-deploy-file:
        template: deploy.project.template.yml
last_updated: Nov 21, 2023
        parameters:
            env_name: 'dev'

Example of including the same deploy file with different parameters via an unnamed array import:

- template: deploy.porject.template.yml
last_updated: Nov 21, 2023
  parameters:
      env-name: 'stage'
- template: deploy.porject.template.yml
last_updated: Nov 21, 2023
  parameters:
      env-name: 'dev'

Deploy file inheritance

When an application with multiple deploy files is being built, a deploy file builder parses and merges the deploy files into a single one at /{DOCKER_SDK_DIRECTORY}/deployment/default/project.yml.

The deploy file builder parses deploy files from the following layers:

• Project layer: located on a project layer at./config/deploy-templates.
• Base layer: located on the Docker SDK layer at./{DOCKER_SDK_DIRECTORY}/generator/deploy-file-generator/templates.

Deploy files are merged in the following order:

1. main deploy file: deploy file on the project layer: deploy.*.yml.
2. project layer: all the deploy files in ./config/deploy-templates, except the main one.
3. base layer - all the deploy files in ./{DOCKER_SDK_DIRECTORY}/generator/deploy-file-generator/templates.

Parameter inheritance

When merging deploy files, the deploy file builder skips each duplicate parameter that was present in the previous parsed deploy files. For example, in deploy.dev.yml, memory limit is defined as follows:

image:
    ...
    php:
        ini:
            memory_limit: 2048M

And, in ./spryker/generator/deploy-file-generator/templates/services.deploy.template.yml, the memory limit is defined as follows:

image:
    ...
    php:
        ini:
            memory_limit: 512M

As a result, because deploy.dev.yml is parsed before services.deploy.template.yml, the memory limit value in project.yml is 2048M.