This is a beginner training for Platform.sh.

Start by first watching the video below - it will give you a good idea of the problem Platform.sh is trying to solve: the complexity of application delivery.

When you’ve finished, follow along through the series of articles to get started!

Introduction

Watch: Build apps, not platforms: Optimized DevOps without platform engineering

Prerequisites

Platform.sh is a flexible and highly customizable DevOps solution for deploying web applications. That said, there are a few rules and some basic knowledge of configuration you will need to know to start using it.

These guides are meant to take you through those basic concepts by deploying your first project. After that, additional topics are covered to provide a full scope of what Platform.sh is useful for, and to show what development looks like on a day-to-day basis.

Each of the guides in this section assume some prior understanding of conventional DevOps topics. They assume some working knowledge of Git, SSH, DevOps workflows, development environments, CI/CD, and infrastructure-as-code as a practice.

Useful resources are provided for context throughout these guides, but it’s best not to rely on them completely if this is your first time deploying applications to production, or using version control to create copies of those applications to review changes to them. Before starting, review some of the links below if you are not yet familiar.

Git

Platform.sh respects and is built upon Git as a version control system for all projects. That is to say, Platform.sh really is just Git under-the-hood. You can go through all of the guides in this section with only some familiarity with DevOps concepts, but prior knowledge of Git (as well as its installation on your machine) is necessary beforehand.

Below are a few resources that may help you with context before going forward.

• Atlassian Git Tutorials
• What is version control?
• What is Git?
• Install Git
• Setting up a repository
• Inspecting a repository
• Using branches
• GitOps

Before getting started, make sure you have Git installed on your computer.

Create an account

Platform.sh provides a free one month trial, which will provide all of the resources you will need to go through these Getting Started guides.

Before starting, be sure to register for a trial Platform.sh account if you have not done so already. You can use your email address to register, or you can sign up using an existing GitHub, Bitbucket, or Google account. If you choose this option, you will be able to set a password for your Platform.sh account later.

You will be given an option to create a project at this point (two options: Use a template and Create from scratch). Click the Cancel button in the right-hand corner of the screen for now - you will create a project later in this guide.

Install the CLI

In addition to a Platform.sh account, each of the following guides assume that you will use the Platform.sh CLI. The CLI is the primary, and the most useful, tool for deploying applications and interacting with your projects.

Read the documentation to install the CLI on your computer

Once the installation has completed, run the CLI in your terminal with the command:

platform

Log in using a browser. Then take a moment to view some of the available commands with the command:

platform list

Get started

In this first section, you will deploy a simple application on Platform.sh, and learn the basic concepts about how it works. Most importantly, you’ll see how a few rules in configuration allow infrastructure and data to be inherited, giving true staging environments for every branch of your project.

Here is a brief outline of what will be covered in this section:

Ready to go?

Let’s Git Started!