Catapult

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Catapult defines a best-practice infrastructure and release management workflow, saving you thousands of engineering hours - it also aligns with Agile methodologies, like Scrum, to afford you everything you need to develop, deploy, and maintain a website with ease.

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:boom: Catapult is a complete website and workflow management platform built from leading and affordable technologies.

:earth_americas: Our mission is to create a lean platform that orchestrates DevOps for website lifecycles with familiar technologies.

:rocket: Our vision is to afford organizations reduced risk and improved performance while lowering barriers to entry.

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Do you need a website and workflow management platform? Here are a few triggers.

• Production is down.
• We need a test site.
• Why is this costing so much?
• Are my environments safe?
• Is my website backed up?
• How quickly can I recover my website after a disaster?
• Can I easily scale my website for more traffic?
• What is my uptime?

What makes Catapult different?

• Catapult is an open-source, complete, and distributed architecture
• Catapult only orchestrates - it is not required to run your infrastructure
• Catapult uses platform native shell scripting rather than configuration management tools such as Chef, Puppet, or Salt
• Catapult features Gitflow workflow while enforcing exactly matching, branch-driven environments
• Catapult features a unique software workflow model - upstream or downstream
• Catapult overlays seamlessly with Scrum methodology
• Catapult is very cost-effective

Go ahead, give Catapult a shot.

Security Disclosure

Security is very important to us. If you have any issue regarding security, please disclose the information responsibly by sending an email to security@devopsgroup.io and not by creating a GitHub issue.

Platform Overview

Catapult orchestrates the following key components of DevOps to provide you with a full-featured infrastructure. Implementing both a Red Hat stack for PHP software and a Windows stack for .NET software.

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• Security Management
  • Configuration Secrets - GnuPG Encryption
• Source Code Management
  • Catapult - Git (via GitHub)
  • Websites - Git (via GitHub or Bitbucket)
• Environment Management
  • Vagrant
• Environment Virtualization
  • Local
    • VirtualBox and VMware Fusion - Red Hat and Windows
  • Cloud
    • DigitalOcean - Red Hat
    • Amazon Web Services (AWS) - Windows
• DNS Management
  • Local
    • vagrant-hostmanager
  • Cloud
    • CloudFlare
• Release Management
  • Automated Deployments - Atlassian Bamboo Server
  • Continuous Integration - Branch-based environments with Git triggers
• Monitoring and Performance
  • Server Resources - New Relic Servers
  • Application Performance - New Relic APM
  • Browser Performance - New Relic Browsers
  • Website Availability - New Relic Synthetics

Table of Contents

• Catapult
  • Security Disclosure
  • Platform Overview
  • Table of Contents
  • Supported Website Software
  • Platform Comparison
• Setup Catapult
  • Developer Setup
  • Instance Setup
  • Services Setup
• Setup Environments
  • Provision Environments
  • Configure Automated Deployments
• Release Management
  • Software Workflow
    • Downstream
    • Upstream
  • Catapult Configuration
    • Company
    • Environments
    • Websites
  • Website Development
    • Website Repositories
    • Software Fresh Installs
    • Software Auto Updates
    • HTTPS and Certificates
    • Forcing www
    • Debug Output
    • Cache Busting
    • Progressive Web App
    • Email
    • Upload Limits
    • Database Migrations
    • Refreshing Databases
    • Connecting to Databases
    • Production Hotfixes
  • Automated Deployment Cycle
  • Maintenance Cycle
    • Daily
    • Weekly
  • Disaster Recovery
    • Server Rebuilding
    • Website Rollbacks
• Security
  • Preventive Controls
  • Detective Controls
  • Corrective Controls
  • Data Protection
    • United States
    • Europe
• Compliance
  • Cloud Compliance
  • Self Compliance
• Performance
  • Bandwidth Optimizations
  • Caching Optimizations
  • Geographic Optimizations
  • Recommended Optimizations
• Capacity
  • Increasing Capacity
  • Load Balancer
• Performance and Capacity Testing
  • Website Concurrency Maximum
  • Interpreting Apache AB Results
• How-to
  • Vagrant Convenience Commands
  • Rotating Secrets
• Troubleshooting
• Contributing
  • Releases
• Community

Supported Website Software

Catapult intelligently manages the following website software that have been chosen from trending usage statistics from BuiltWith and aligns with the CentOS 7 and Software Collections trunks:

Software | Key | Minimum PHP Version | Running PHP Version | Released | End-of-Life ---------|------------------|---------------------|---------------------|----------|------------ CodeIgniter 2 | codeigniter2 | 5.1.6 | 5.4 | January 28, 2011 | October 31, 2015 CodeIgniter 3 | codeigniter3 | 5.6 | 7.1 | March 30, 2015 | concrete5 8 | concrete58 | 5.5.9 | 7.1 | December 1, 2016 | Drupal 6 | drupal6 | 5.4 | 5.4 | February 13, 2008 | February 24, 2016 Drupal 7 | drupal7 | 5.2.5 | 7.1 | January 5, 2011 | Drupal 8 | drupal8 | 7.0.8 | 7.2 | November 19, 2015 | Elgg 1 | elgg1 | 5.4 | 5.4 | August 20, 2008 | Elgg 2 | elgg2 | 5.6 | 7.1 | December 14, 2015 | ExpressionEngine 3 | expressionengine3 | 5.3.10 | 5.4 | October 13, 2015 | December 14, 2018 Joomla 3 | joomla3 | 5.3.10 | 7.1 | September 27, 2012 | Laravel 5 | laravel5 | 7.0.0 | 7.1 | February 4, 2015 | MediaWiki 1 | mediawiki1 | 5.5.9 | 7.1 | December 8, 2003 | Moodle 3 | moodle3 | 5.6.5 | 7.1 | November 16, 2015 | SilverStripe 3 | silverstripe3 | 5.3.3 | 5.4 | June 29, 2012 | SuiteCRM 7 | suitecrm7 | 5.5 | 7.1 | October 21, 2013 | November 15, 2019 WordPress 4 | wordpress4 | 5.2 | 7.1 | September 4, 2014 | WordPress 5 | wordpress5 | 5.6 | 7.2 | December 6, 2018 | WordPress 6 | wordpress6 | 5.6 | 7.3 | May 24, 2022 | XenForo 1 | xenforo1 | 5.2.11 | 5.4 | March 8, 2011 | December 31, 2019 XenForo 2 | xenforo2 | 5.4.0 | 7.1 | November 28, 2017 | Zend Framework 2 | zendframework2 | 5.3.23 | 5.4 | September 5, 2012 |

If you do not see your website software listed, Catapult supports basic PHP projects that do not have a database requirem